E-business

What do we know about e-business? Corporate site - this is e-business? And Internet shopping? Try to make a request to search engines, and you learn a lot about e-business centers, but information that is found about the most electronic business will be no small feat. Most web developers are still confined to formulaic solutions: a representative site, catalog, online shop, etc. But whether in order to build effective solutions for e-business?

First, let's take a look - who can be sent to e-business. Today known classification, under which Internet solution can be focused on doing business with customers (B2C), with officials inside the company (B2E), with other companies (B2B), the transaction between companies and government organizations (B2A/B2G) and among business customers (C2C). Theoretically, there is also a category for the C2A transactions between consumers and the state. More e-business could also be classified under categories such as: internal business systems, corporate communications and networking, e-commerce.

E-commerce is usually represented by the decisions of the type of Internet shopping, logistics management, and other online marketing. It can be is aimed at the consumer (B2C) and the other company (B2B). In the first case are three basic models: a model based on advertising, a model based on the community and the model based on remuneration. Currently, the e-commerce solutions to actively apply international standards of UN / EDIFACT, to ensure "traceability" of goods, unification of nomenclature, the synchronization of databases, and so on.

To ensure interaction in the space of e-business company uses such technologies as voice telephony, voice mail, Email, Web conferences and online content-oriented solutions.

Domestic business system based on the type of CRM applications (CRM), ERP (enterprise resource planning), EDM (electronic document circulation), HRM (personnel management). In e-business are also traditional and knowledge management system (Knowledge Management), the school system (e-Learning)

As you can see, we can hardly talk of a full-fledged e-business, where the company has only one or two Internet solutions, "detached" from the corporate information system. It seems that the real effect, at least for large and medium-sized companies that can only be obtained through the deployment of corporate information systems based on Web.

Is that so? Let us also to the latest trends in the world market for web design as Web 2.0. First of all, the Internet is beginning considered as a single platform. This is a sort of global operating system, which applications - web sites. Here principle that access to any applications of this comprehensive platform for unified principles implemented through a Web browser. And, for users of this platform is not important what hardware are geographically located and where applications platform.

Internet as a platform

Thus, we see that the informational e-business companies are also represented as a platform, which includes e-commerce applications and system interaction, and internal business applications systems. Ie user corporate information system based on the Web should be able to work with applications systems, regardless of where it physically resides: in a remote office, in another country, at home or even on the plane. Moreover, it is not of importance and the device with which it works, if it has a web browser and access to the Internet. This approach is still like an idealistic utopia, but pervasive technology SOA (service-oriented architecture) makes the model described is not only real, but it is clear standard in the near future. There is a growing body of companies specializing in web integration. They actually organize software bridges between web applications and business programs of local networks the company and its partners. Thus, the existing application of local information networks are becoming the Internet as a platform for applications.

Trends in electronic business, Web 2.0 technologies augmented so transformed the principles of corporate synergy that received own definition Enterprise 2.0. They embody the idea of e-business in the user community, which became dominant in the past year. The idea of such provisions is based Web 2.0 architecture as encouraging users to participate (architecture of participation) and the principle of ownership of their own data within the application.