1. Enterprises initially shared static information on websites, but then began exploring online transactions like e-commerce, with applications for shopping carts and online auctions.
2. "E-business" emerged to represent enterprise-level digital transformation, including internal information changes to efficiently manage resources.
3. Modern enterprises cannot stand alone and must interact through enterprise-level supply chains, with interdependencies presenting challenges to ensure flexibility and adaptation to market changes.
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Computing on Demand
Prof Neeraj Bhargava
Vaibhav Khanna
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Systems Sciences
Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University Ajmer
2. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
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Enterprises did not stop at static information sharing;
instead, they tried to explore the Internet as a new business
medium to conduct business activities. Soon afterwards,
online transactions emerged, such as online shopping, online
auction, and online payment.
3. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
e-Business started as a common technical innovation
aiming at supporting simple Internet browsing and
interaction utilizing Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). In
order to enable global access, companies publish static
information (e.g., business name, address, contact
information, company history) on their Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML) homepages on the Internet.
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4. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
Enterprises did not stop at static information sharing;
instead, they tried to explore the Internet as a new business
medium to conduct business activities. Soon afterwards,
online transactions emerged, such as online shopping,
online auction, and online payment. These transaction-
based catalog management and shopping carts applications
are commonly referred to as Electronic Commerce (e-
Commerce).
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5. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
“e-Business” was coined to represent enterprise-level
business transformation. In this information revolution,
enterprise-internal information transformation has great
importance in facilitating resource utilization and
management effectively and efficiently.
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6. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
Enterprise Conformity is an e business level that have
mutual interdependencies of different modern enterprise.
Inter-enterprise communications and interactions are
inevitable. A modern enterprise can no longer stand alone;
instead, it has to constantly interact with and rely on its
interrelated enterprises, its suppliers, and its clients, thus
establishing a functioning enterprise-level service chain.
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7. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
After these enterprises are synergistically integrated with
each other, their become tremendous. To ensure that this
sophisticated enterprise service chain adapts itself with
stochastic adjustments, when the market fluctuates,
remains a big challenge. As a matter of fact, this “self-
adaptable e-Business” or “on-demand business”
represents the highest level of e-Business.
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9. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
1. A user discovers an interesting merchandise from an online
search engine, then clicks the associated link to connect to the
corresponding supplier.
2. After filling a purchase order with payment information (e.g.,
credit card number, name shown on the card, and expiration
date), the user sends the request to the supplier.
3. The supplier then dynamically connects to the corresponding
payment service provider (e.g., the credit card company) to
perform a real-time transaction and acknowledges the
customer.
4. After the payment is conducted, the supplier interacts with
available shipping service providers to arrange a timely
shipment to the user.
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10. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
“An On-Demand Business is an unprecedented enterprise
whose business processes— integrated end-to-end across
the company and with key partners, suppliers and
customers— can respond with flexibility and speed to
customer demand, market opportunity or external threat.
IBM
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11. Evolution phases of e-Business adoption
• Samuel J. Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, delivered a
message to the Business Week:
“On-Demand Business is our way of describing a
fundamental shift in computing architecture and how it is
applied to business— a shift toward integrated solutions
and quantifiable business value, not just technology
features and functions.”
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