This video is presented by USEP's BSCS student Alvin Mark U. Cabeliño under Mr. ND Arquillano as a partial fulfilment for Elective 4 -E-Commerce It talks about E-Commerce Infrastructure.

1. E-business and How it Levels the
Playing Field

2. What is e-Business?
 Electronic Business or e-Business, also known as electronic
commerce and e-commerce, refers to the use of computers
and electronic communications networks to do business.
 It refers to every type of business transaction or interaction in
which the participants prepare or conduct business
electronically. This covers a wide range of activities, ranging
from the use of electronic mail (email) and Electronic Funds
Transfer at Point of Sale (EFTPOS), through Internet based
sales and transactions and web-based marketing. e-Business is
a business issue rather than a technology issue.

3. What are the 2 main types of e-
commerce?
There are 2 types of e-commerce applications:
◦ (1) Business-to-business (B2B); and
◦ (2) business-to-consumer (B2C).

4. B2B applications:
 Supply Management. Electronic applications in this
area aid in expediting business partnerships through
the reduction of purchase order (PO) processing costs
and cycle times, and by maximizing the number of
Pos processed with fewer people.

5. B2B applications:
◦ Inventory Management. Electronic applications make the
order-ship-bill cycle shorter. For instance, if most of a
business’s partners are linked electronically, any information
sent by mail can be transmitted instantly. Businesses can
easily keep track of their documents to make sure that they
were received. Such a system improves auditing capabilities,
and helps reduce inventory turns, and eliminate out-of-stock
occurrences.

6. B2B applications:
◦ Distribution Management. Electronic-based
applications make the transmission of shipping
documents a lot easier and faster. E-commerce
also enables more efficient resource management
by certifying that documents contain more accurate
data.

7. B2B applications:
◦ Channel Management. E-commerce allows for
speedier dissemination of information regarding
changes in operational conditions of trading
partners. Technical, product, and pricing
information can be posted with much ease on
electronic bulletin boards.

8. B2B applications:
◦ Payment Management. An electronic payment
system allows for a more efficient payment
management system by minimizing clerical errors,
increasing the speed of computing invoices, and
reducing transaction fees and costs.

9. Business to Consumer
 B2C applications involve customers gathering
information, purchasing, and receiving products over an
electronic network. It may be used in the following
transactions:
◦ Purchasing products and information. Electronic applications
make it possible for consumers to look up online information
about existing and new products/services.
◦ Personal finance management. In this field, electronic
applications (e.g. Quicken) aid the consumers in managing
investments and personal finances through the use of online
banking tools.

10. E-business Benefits
 Costs:
◦ Lower transaction expenses. Labor costs associated with
administration can be slashed.
◦ Reduced supply costs. More Internet based information affords
firms a wider choice of suppliers and by extension, more
competitive prices.
◦ Publication and distribution fees fall. Publishing a brochure online
enables a vast number of people to access it, while also allowing
the company to update and then add to the contents.
◦ The role of the Middleman becomes less important as companies
can sell direct to the customer.

11. E-business Benefits
Marketing:
◦ It helps build brand awareness offering new avenues of
promotion.
◦ Customer loyalty deepens because web based purchasing
affords customers the opportunity to communicate with the
company.
◦ Conversely, a web site also allows the firm to offer better
service to consumers.

12. E-business Benefits
Competitiveness:
◦ E-business offers a reliable, cost effective and a voluntary
means of doing business. Routine tasks are automated and
customers, if they wish, can avail themselves of a 24-hour
sales service.
◦ More players will enter the market as technology enables
firms to penetrate overseas.
◦ Companies need to be aware of market changes.

13. What are the different aspects of
E-business infrastructure?
 The information infrastructure
◦ composed of many types of transport systems. It is a synthesis of various forms of
high-speed transport systems – land-based telephones, wireless, modem-based PC, or
satellite based. For example, an email sent from a desktop in Laos PDR to a laptop
in Singapore may travel through several types of transport networks which are
interconnected before it reaches its destination. This infrastructure is the
transportation foundation that provides the means for content transmission.
 The players in this industry are called the information transport providers.
These include:
◦ Telecommunications companies, which supply the phone lines;
◦ Cable TV systems, which set-up coaxial cables and direct broadcast satellite
networks;
◦ Wireless companies, which provide the mobile radio and satellite networks;
◦ Computer networks, which include both private networks (e.g. AOL) and public
networks (e.g. Internet)

14. The E-business Infrastructure
The second aspect of the e-business infrastructure is
multimedia content and network publishing. At
present, the most common architecture for network is
the World Wide Web (WWW). The Web allows
companies to create product information (content)
and provides them with the means to publish it in a
distribution center (i.e. a network server)

15. The E-business Infrastructure
 The third aspect of the infrastructure is messaging and information distribution.
How exactly is this done? To begin with, we know that information content
transported over the network is made up of text, numbers, pictures, audio and
video. All content is digital – that is, in combinations of ones and zeroes. The
moment content is created and stored on a server, it is carried across the network
through vehicles, or messaging and information distribution methods. This
messaging vehicle is called the middleware software, which is positioned between
the web servers and the end-user applications. Messaging and information
distribution systems also have translators which interpret and transform data
formats.

16. The E-business Infrastructure
 Common business services infrastructure makes up the fourth
aspect of e-commerce infrastructure. This includes methods
which facilitate online buying and selling processes. The
purchaser transmits an electronic payment (say, a form of
electronic check or digital cash) together with some remittance
information to the seller. There is settlement from the
moment the seller accepts and validates the payment and
remittance information.

17. In summary
E-business provides the opportunity even for
small businesses to be able to compete.
The e-business potential must be harnessed
correctly in order to bring business success. But
to do this, we must learn and familiarize
ourselves with the nuances of this manner of
doing business.

18. Thank You