Group 1

Balaji Hariharan
Chandra Shekhar
Karishma Pradhan
Ravi Mateti
Presents
 Defining E-Commerce

 Definition: The conducting of business

communication and transactions over networks and
through computers. As most restrictively defined,
electronic commerce is the buying and selling of
goods and services,
services and the transfer of funds,
through digital communications.

 Electronic commerce also includes buying and

selling over the World-Wide Web and the
Internet, electronic funds transfer and all other ways
of doing business over digital networks.
 Introduction

 Some of the features include…

• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
• Supply Chain Management
• Internet Marketing
• Online Transaction Processing
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Automated Inventory Management Systems and
Automated Data Collection Systems
 History

 1970s: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)

 Used by the banking industry to exchange account
information over secured networks
 Late 1970s and early 1980s: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
for e-commerce within companies
 Used by businesses to transmit data from one business to
another
 1990s: the World Wide Web on the Internet provides easy-to-
use technology for information publishing and dissemination
 Cheaper to do business (economies of scale)

 Enable diverse business activities (economies of scope)

 History (Continued)
 Timeline :
• 1990: Tim Berners-Lee wrote "The WorldWideWeb browser"
using a NeXT computer.
• 1994: Netscape – Mozilla, Pizza Hut’s webpage, first online bank ,
flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online, cars and bikes,
late 1994 - SSL encryption that made transactions secure.
• 1995: Amazon.com , first commercial 24 hr. internet only radio
stations "Radio HK" and NetRadio, eBay founded by computer
programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb.
• 1998: Electronic postal stamps available online.
• 1999: The peer-to-peer filesharing software "Napster" launched.
• 2000: The dot-com bust.
• 2003: Amazon.com: first-ever full-year profit.
 Web development 
• Online auction sites such as eBay,Amazon.com

• The 5 largest Internet retailers are Amazon,

Staples, Office Depot, Dell, and Hewlett
Packard.
 Infrastructure

Information infrastructure
 Internet, LAN, WAN, routers, etc.
 telecom, cable TV, wireless, etc.

Messaging and information distribution infrastructure

 HTML, XML, e-mail, HTTP, etc.

Common business infrastructure

 Security, authentication, electronic payment etc.
 Infrastructure (Continued)

 Categories : -
• B2B (Business-to-Business) E-Commerce :
a. Supply Chain Management
b. Electronic Procurement System
• B2C (Business-to-Consumer) E-Commerce
 Web-based E-commerce Architecture

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier N

DMS

Client
Web Server Application Database
Server Server
 Applications

 E-Marketing
 E-Advertisement
 E-Banking :
• Debit and Credit Cards
 Online product management (Buying and Selling)
 E-Booking
 Positive Aspects

 Ability to conduct business 24 x 7 x 365.

 Access the global marketplace.
 Speed.
 Marketspace.
 Opportunity to reduce costs.
 Efficient applications development environment.
 Allowing customer self service and 'customer
outsourcing‘.
 Stepping beyond borders to a global view.
 Constraints

 Time for delivery of physical products.

 Physical product, supplier & delivery uncertainty
 Perishable goods
 Returning goods
 Privacy, security, payment, identity, contract
 Size and number of transactions.
 Thank You