Collaborative commerce through Web-Based Information Integration technologies

Abstract

There is a great potential for the establishment of Web-Based Information Integration (WBII), to help people share information on the Internet, especially in B2B and B2C applications. This integration of internal systems brings employees from the many seemingly separate areas of retail, catalogue, online, finance, distribution, merchandising and training to function as a total systems integrated system. With collaborative commerce becoming a necessity, executives will begin emphasize ways in that people and institutions can cooperate to reach common goals. These processes are conceptually mapped into a series of three phases, with applications, strategies and case studies of each used to illustrate the major points of the models presented.

Business processes oriented heterogeneous systems integration platform for networked enterprises

“…According to Ref. [4][5][6], a service orchestration tool should have four characteristics of versatility, expression richness, output standards as well as friendly man-machine interface. Although BPEL can describe in what order, where to call Web services as well as how to organize these calls, but it cannot store and operate the data in business process.…”

“…Some new manufacturing patterns including supply chain management [4], collaborative commerce [5], extended enterprise [3], virtual enterprise [3,[6][7][8], dynamic alliance [9], customer relationship management, e-business, etc., are developed. All of these new patterns form the basic features of a networked enterprise.…”

The impact of e-procurement systems on customer relationship management: a multiple case study

“…It helps companies source input products and services at the lowest cost, while ensuring that those inputs meet technical and other specifications. By making this process web-based, e-procurement solution providers are changing the process in ways that go far beyond its mere computerisation and automation (Johnson and Whang, 2002;Smith, 2005;Smith, 2007a;Smith, 2007b). According to Wheatley (2003), it was found that 17% of companies that do not yet have sourcing and procurement applications plan to implement in the near future and between 2002 and 2003, there was a market growth of 12%, up from $1.7 billion in 2002 to $1.8 in 2003.…”

The virtual classroom from a business customer retention viewpoint: an empirical-based study

“…With graphical displays, user interfaces, and programmable drives, the computer is the obvious champion for the virtual classroom (Smith, 2004a;Smith, 2004b;Wu and Chen, 2008). However, it is just a tool to access the open sources found available on the internet (Smith, 2006;Smith, 2007). The internet provides a channel and connection between users, allowing them to translate physical thought into digital and numeric data, and then communicating the messages from user to user.…”

“…For teachers of virtual classrooms, working part-time is a possibility because of the flexible nature of e-learning (Smith, 2007;Gallien and Oomen-Early, 2008). The teacher is not required to work from an office or classroom to instruct lessons or organise material and lessons; this can be done from anywhere where they have access to a computer with an internet connection and other necessary software/hardware, which is an advantage.…”