Ebusiness - Definition and Overview

Electronic business is any information system or application that empowers business processes. Today this is mostly done with web technologies.

E-business includes

Applications can be divided into three categories:

1) Internal business systems:

• customer relationship management
• enterprise resource planning
• employee information portals
• knowledge management
• workflow management
• document management systems
• human resource management
• process control
• internal transaction processing

2) Enterprise communication and collaboration

• e-mail
• voice mail
• discussion forums
• chat systems
• data conferencing
• collaborative work systems

3) electronic commerce - Business-to-business electronic commerce or business-to-consumer electronic commerce

• electronic funds transfer
• supply chain management
• e-marketing
• online transaction processing

Scope of e-business applications

These applications can be available to different kind of users:

• all users of the internet
• only the employees on the intranet
• a specified targeted group of users of an extranet (like customers, partners etc.)

See also

• electronic commerce
• management information systems
• information technology management
• intranet strategies

Resource

• InfoCog.com (http://www.infocog.com): start an online company, business information and resources.
• MerchantPicks.com (http://www.merchantpicks.com) - Resource and Directory of E-Commerce marketplace,how to eatablish online store, payment processor, fraud prevention, accept credit cards on line.
• Online Shopping & ECommerce Directory (http://www.onlinemarts.com/)

Finding related topics

• list of information technology management topics
• list of management topics
• list of computing topics
• list of marketing topics
• list of Internet topics
• list of economics topics
• list of finance topics
• list of accounting topics
• list of human resource management topics
• list of business law topics
• list of production topics
• list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
• list of business theorists
• list of economists
• list of corporate leaders
• list of companies

Books

• Amor, Daniel, The E-Business (R)Evolution (http://www.ebusinessrevolution.com/english/ebusinessrevolution2/), 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, New York, 2002, ISBN 0130670391
• Chaffey, Dave, E-business and e-commerce management, Dave Chaffey, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, New York, 2001: ISBN 0273651889
• Hayes-Roth, Rick and Amor, Daniel, Radical Simplicity (http://www.ebusinessrevolution.com/english/radicalsimplicity1/), Prentice Hall, New York, 2003, ISBN 0131002910
• Shapiro, Carl and Varian, Hal R., Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Harvard Business School Press, 1998, ISBN 087584863X