Electronic Commerce (EC) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are fundamental strategic concepts when businesses are forging links with their suppliers and customers. This article analyzes the complementary nature of both concepts. ETA SA, part of ‘The Swatch Group’ in Switzerland, has redesigned the distribution of spare parts to brand manufacturers by pursuing an integrated approach of EC and SC...

The inherent distributed structure of business rules shows a high affinity to the execution of business processes across the internet, as needed for e-business and e-commerce. However, doing e-business also requires the integration of an evolving set of heterogeneous services into the business processes. To cope with these requirements, a web service based execution model is proposed.

The advent of networked economy calls for new understanding of business, and it is evidenced by the visible trend of traditional businesses either migrating to e-business or expanding to embrace electronic commerce. Constant change in the environment means continually evolving strategies, new products, new processes and new technologies to adopt. E-business metrics are needed to measure perform...

In most countries, micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms. Canada has more than 500,000 employer micro-enterprises, representing 77% of all firms (Industry Canada, 2001); if we include owner-operated firms with no employees, the number and proportion of microenterprises would be much larger. Although the development potential of this group of firms would seem to be huge, micro-enterpri...

In this paper we discuss the utilization of grid computing platforms as an enabling infrastructure for e-commerce, e-government and e-business applications. First fundamental concepts related with grid computing are presented, as well as a description of the evolution of grid computing platforms from pioneer projects to third generation systems. Then we identify a set of services that can be pr...

— The electronic government involves developing the informational society, which refers to an economy and a society in which the access, acquisition, memorizing, taking, transmitting, spreading and using the knowledge accede to a decisive role. The informational society involves changes in the domains of administration (e-Government), business (electronic commerce and e-business), education (lo...

The internet revolution is sweeping every aspect of business, and E-business development needs sound ecological environment. The competition in the e-business was not among enterprises but among the ecosystems. This paper focuses on problems of E-business construction for enterprises in different niches in the perspective of business ecosystem, introduces the concept of e-business ecosystem and...

E-activities are considered a very powerful tool for the strengthening of enterprises and enterprising in general. They include among others, e-leaming, e-govemment, e-conmierce and e-business, which are the main e-activities that directly interest the enterprises. This article presents and describes a compound e-govemment envirormient-application that is addressed to enterprises, which incorpo...

With the advent and the rapid growth of the Internet, e-services have proliferated. Indeed, e-commerce activities have played a vital role in expanding current business transactions to much higher levels by allowing a larger number of potential customers and companies to interact in a shorter time with lower costs. E-services include business information, processes, resources, and applications,...

E-business information systems are computer applications that leverage intraand inter-firm process and systems integration. Considering the growth and strategic importance of e-business, while it is important for organizations to carefully plan for and architect ebusiness systems, none of the existing information systems planning models is adequate for the task. An e-business architecture plann...