Table of Contents Introduction 3 E-business Architecture 4 Business goals 5 Networked applications 5 Information/Database 7 Foundation Technologies 8 Bibliography 10 Introduction What's e-business? It is the transformation of every business process through using the internet and associated technologies. In this transformation, each part of the business becomes a part of an intrinsic network, which enables employees, suppliers and customers of a given enterprise to conduct their tasks. People usually try to make a point in differing e-business from e-commence, but as I see, e-commerce is a part of the e-business category, and an important one. E-commerce can be defined as any business conducted over the internet. We have many examples of businesses, such as Amazon, E-Bay and Yahoo, that have achieved extreme on-line success and Virgin Atlantic is among them. The are two basic categories of business conducted over the internet, Business-to-Customer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B), and they share one common key aspect - use of Internet technologies to manage all aspects of the business. In the following pages we will take a look at the steps that must be taken into consideration when developing a successful e-business architecture. E-business Architecture There are many different ways to define an architecture as they can take many forms, including logical views, scenarios (or sequence diagrams), physical views and deployment views. Each view provides a specific type of information within the diagram and is directed to a certain audience, including Web architects, data architects, application architects and end users. A good, reliable e-business architecture can serve as your platform for future e-business applications. In creating an e-business architecture, you will want to ensure that you are developing and leveraging core components across multiple applications. An effective e-business architecture should be built after a careful analysis of the way a company does business, for implementing an appropriate architecture is a way to make businesses overall more efficient. When developing an e-business architecture, a company must first take into consideration its current business structure or how they would like this structure to be if it's a new business, and from that point develop an architecture that will take the business to a next level of organization and management. Business goals Before starting any business you should consider its objectives, in order to develop a strategy. It is the strategy that lays out how the objectives will be achieved and determines deadlines for achieving them. If and when the goals are reached the business will be successful. Virgin Atlantic is UK's second largest major airline; it had its first take-off in 1984 and nowadays has routes leading to the world's major cities, having carried more than 38 million people to this date.
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Show MoreHave you ever purchased any product on the Internet, used the Internet to collect information or data, or played computer games on the Internet? You must agree that it is fast, easy, and enjoyable. The Internet has been a part of our daily life for several years now. In addition, in the business world, a new business model, E-business and E-commerce, has appeared for several years. According to Ali, there are two main types of E-commerce: B2B and B2C (2000). One is business to business (B2B). This means that enterprises use the Internet to transact or trade between business operations and their partners. Another is business to consumer (B2C). In other words, enterprises provide products, support good, and services to the customers on the Internet.
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E-marketing is a fast growing and rapid platform for any form of business. EBay has been highly successful over recent years and this is a perfect example of an online business. The internal and external environments are constantly changing and in order to keep up with these changes, businesses and organisations must make relevant changes, and generate new strategies to keep up with contemporary developments in e-marketing and to also maintain their position in their market in comparison to their competitors.
Oracle E-Business Suite is a bundling of several oracle based applications released in February of 2007. The goal is to integrate the global business applications involved with doing online business. And as a result, enables organizations to reduce costs, make better decisions, and increase performance. This is made possible by Oracle’s core relational database management system. No matter if the organization is large, small or medium size, it will be able to help customers manage complexities and solve business related issues. Some of the benefits of Oracle’s E-Business Suite include: lower total cost of ownership compared to IBM POWER7+ by 4 times, easily supporting up to 2,000 concurrent users for higher workloads or further
The real potential often comes with the application of various tools and concepts associated with e-business to the basics of business; as well as, using these tools to bring about new levels of competitiveness to companies.
... livelihood of the organization and understanding the role and place of each aspect is crucial. Realizing there are industry standards for modeling and diagramming help keep all stakeholders on the same project page. Proper use and approach of OLAP is key along with the setup and utilization of data warehouses and marts. Finally there is the architecture you use to tie it all together. Each area builds upon the other and is successive steps in the stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle. Although each is different, they all share a common interest. This interest is to work together to complete a whole data system that the entire corporation can use effectively and enjoy.
E-commerce is simply the ability to conduct business and personal transactions over the Internet. One of the most popular forms of e-commerce is business-to-consumer transactions where a company or business sells its products and services to a consumer over the Internet. Some examples of this type of e-commerce are Amazon.com, Nobles.com and CDNow.com. Albeit the popularity of this kind of e-commerce, the majority of e-commerce transactions are of the business-to-business (B2B) kind where sales occur between businesses [1].
According to the definition of Whatis.com "E-business (electronic business), derived from such terms as "e-mail" and "e-commerce," is the conduct of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners."[1]
“Enterprise Architecture” is a term that applies to both a program and a deliverable/output. A company may have an Enterprise Architecture team that is responsible for creating an enterprise architecture. Considering everything you have read, discussed, and learned in this program, (a) describe the ‘Enterprise Architecture’ discipline or program, (2) describe the ‘enterprise architecture’ deliverable/output.
E-commerce has grown significantly over the past years, it has helped small businesses to expand and create new businesses mush easier and faster than before, it also has changed the way they deal with customers and helped the growth of the economy, and more and more businesses are doing their business over the web, all of that shows how important EC is in many aspects and how it will continue emerging between businesses.
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E-business is a wider concept that takes into account all the aspects of use of information technology in business. Apart from buying and selling, it also includes servicing customers, collaboration with business partners, and engages incorporation across business processes and communication within the organisation (Rowley, 2002)
META Group considers enterprise architecture as a process as opposed to an object, thereby referring to it as enterprise architecture process. Its enterprise architecture describes the systematic linkages between the enterprise business, technical architectures, information and enterprise solution architecture. It has modified the traditional enterprise architecture in a manner that extends from the level of business strate...
E-commerce means that the company runs their business online, not like the traditional business way. We have to go the shopping mall or store to get goods that we need, E-Business is the enabling of electronic communication between any two or more participants in a business relationship. It helps companies capture abroad business field, cost saving, and market opportunity. E-commerce is an important factor that is making people’s lives more efficient.
Consequently, e-business and especially online shopping is crucial for retail stores. They should provide necessary infrastructure for selling their products online. By taking advantage of e-business not only they can get competitive advantage of online shopping, but the...