Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134802756
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10, Problem 17CSQ
Program Plan Intro

E-commerce:

  • E-commerce denotes a commerce via internet or online facilities.
  • It denotes purchasing or selling of products online.
  • The areas of e-commerce includes:
    • Online Retailing
    • Electric markets
    • Online Auctions
  • It provides online shopping for retail sales direct to consumers via web sites.
  • It uses demographic data through social media and web contacts.
  • It engages in retail for launching new services and products.
  • It has online financial exchanges for trading and concurrency exchanges.

Features of e-commerce:

The eight unique feature of e-commerce is shown below:

  • Ubiquity:
    • Internet technology is accessible to the customer everywhere.
  • Global reach:
    • It displays that e-commerce grows to each part of world.
    • It also allows commercial transaction among national boundaries
  • Universal standards:
    • It is also called as universal standards.
    • These standards are used for organizing e-commerce business that is exchanged across world.
  • Richness
    • Video, audio, and text messages are possible in these features.
      • These features are merged into single marketing message and consumer experience.
  • Interactivity:
    • This features works by communication with the user. The communication is done by two-way process that is the consumer and supplier.
  • Information density:
    • Here the technology decreases cost of information.
    • It improves the currency, accuracy and quality.
  • Personalization/Customization:
    • This feature is used to deliver the personalized message to individual and also to groups.
  • Social technology:
    • It supports the content generation and social networking.

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