In the previous section, the basic overview of each of the 7Cs is provided. However, the success of a particular business such as Landsend.com depends....
Figure provides a simple representation of the 7Cs framework for e- commerce website design. The interface is the virtual (and, to date, largely visib....
Typically, Internet merchant accounts are provided through an acquiring bank (or acquirer) that lets you accept credit cards, and sometimes other type....
PayPal provides easy interface to send money to anyone by giving the person’s e-mail account. In order for the person to retrieve the money, they mu....
Electronic payment systems are non-credit-card online payment systems. The goal of their development is to create analogs of checks and cash on the In....
Most of online purchases are paid for by a credit card. Merchants like credit card payments because an instant authorization guarantees that the card ....
E-commerce does not refer merely to a firm putting up a Web site for the purpose of selling goods to buyers over the Internet. For e-commerce to be a ....
Electronic commerce or e-commerce refers to a wide range of online business activities for products and services. It also pertains to “any form of b....
In addition to increasing productivity and reducing overall operating expenses, e-SCM maximizes selling opportunities by capturing valuable customer i....
E-commerce is slowly affecting the distribution channels through which consumers and businesses have traditionally bought and sold goods and services.....
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become the heart or, more accurately, the spine of many corporate technology initiatives, having been ....
Beyond the glamour of developing the e-channel, business is investing to deploy customer relationship management in traditional channels. In most case....
Many companies today are using information technology to develop integrated Cross-functional enterprise systems (refer Figure) that cross the boundari....
There are as many ways to use information technology in business as there are business activities to be performed, business problems to be solved, and....
The internet has expanded faster than any other communications medium in history. The way in which computers and the internet are developed will deter....