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What is e-business?
Definitions from the Web
• E-Business (electronic business) is, in
its simplest form, the conduct of
business on the Internet
• E-Business is taken to mean
conducting business electronically,
both within an organisation and
externally, with clients, communities
and partners.
e-Business vs. e-
Commerce?
• Academic texts are divided in their definitions:
• Some seeing e-Commerce as the overarching concept
(e.g. Timmers, 1999)
• And others seeing Commerce narrowly as buying and
selling electronically (e.g. Kalakota and Robinson, 2001)
Processing of
some kind
I Flow(I O
)
Auctions Process Control Customer relationship
Management
Electronic Ordering Workflow
Electronic Invoice Web marketing
Intranet
Electronic Payment Customer Integration
Finance (status/pull)
Supplier Integration
(Push) HR
Business intelligence (BI)
• A conceptual framework for decision
support. It combines architecture,
databases (or data warehouses),
analytical tools, and applications