Integration is a significant parameter that influences the success of ebusiness applications and supports organisations to achieve competitive advantage. Traditional approaches to interorganisational integration such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) have proved insufficient and complex. Recently, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) has emerged to address enterprise and cross enterprise...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) is sharing business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunications networks. Traditional E-commerce, conducted with the use of information technologies centering on electronic data interchange (EDI) over proprietary value-added networks, is rapidly moving to the Internet. The Internet's World ...

Standardized business documents, data definitions, item description and identification and business processes have been seen as key to effective interorganizational commerce since the 1980s, when electronic data interchange (EDI) became the technology of choice for business-to-business coordination. Vertical information systems (VIS) standards are designed to promote communication and coordinat...

’ The business landscape has been radically changed since the advent of the Internet. The Internet has opened new opportunities for companies to revamp existing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems and introduce new business models. In particular, the integration of business processes across increasingly fluid boundaries of companies into virtual enterprises, can be potentially greatly eas...

Several initiatives support supply chain integration by using Extensible Markup Language (XML). We study the main XML technologies to accomplish the integration. The basic XML technologies enable straightforward exchange of data as XML documents between the trading partners in a supply chain. We clarify the motivation to standardise the use of XML technologies in e-business frameworks. We have ...

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is one of the main requirements in a cooperative environment, more so in an environment that is predestined to the cooperation of various companies and enterprises. The challenge to unify the heterogeneous distributed data sources of the aforementioned companies and enterprises for consistent, easy extensible and versatile data access is met with the Grid Seaml...

INTRODUCTION The computer revolution has transformed modern life by integrating every aspect of society. It has penetrated the way enterprises communicate, as well as the way they do business. Electronic commerce is contributing to this revolution by changing the way enterprises buy and sell products and services. Today, many enterprises are performing secure and reliable large-scale enterprise...

The increasing competitive pressures from both global and domestic markets are forcing nations to adopt new trade practices and standards. Nations need to adjust to new methods of trade information exchange, open up their telecommunications systems and learn to take full advantage of harmonized procedures, standards, and practices for trade documentation. The role of electronic commerce and ele...

The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditionally, these problems were overcome through custom point-to-point integration or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) networks. These expensive, time-consuming approaches make economic sense only when companies do a lot o...