Monday 27 August 2012

E-Commerce - What is it ???

Hello Friends, My name is Vinay Choudhary and I am going to tell you about The E-Commerce.
Before we start with E-Commerce, let's begin with the term INTERNET. Let's put it in a very simple way, Internet is a medium which connects us globally through computer/laptop/mobile.
As we all know that we are in the 21st century, and internet is playing a very important role in the society. It has changed our lifestyles in every sphere; the internet has redefined the methods of communication, work, study, education, interaction, leisure, entertainment, health trade and commerce. Now it has become an inseparable part of our lives, as it is less time consuming and it does not require any space. Internet have changed the traditional way of doing business, right from the way we conduct commerce to the way we distribute information. Now people can always be in touch through internet, we can interact with each other anytime, on anything, whether it could be business or anything else. We have end number of websites to fulfill all our requirements be it basic necessities or luxury.
Now let's get to know about The E-Commerce. Now a day’s customer service and customer satisfaction is the most important thing and for customers we say “At your doorstep” similarly we can say “At a click of a mouse away” for E-commerce. Now you don’t have to go to the market, the market will come to you.
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) is a revolution in a business world, which is changing the way of business specially buying and selling of products and services. It is associated with buying and selling of information, products and services over computer through communication networks. For any business or commercial activity, information is the key factor and E-Commerce helps to conduct traditional business with the new ways of transferring and processing of information. Information is electronically transferred from computer to computer in an automated way. In fact, it has transformed the way, organizations operates. E-Commerce is a paperless exchange of business information using electronic data, Interchange, Electronic Mail, Electronic bulletin Boards, Electronic funds transfer and other network based technologies. It not only automates manual process and paper transactions but also helps organization to more to a fully electronic environment and change the way they operate.
The internet has given yet another boost to E-Commerce because it is a low cost alternative to the proprietary networks E-Commerce standards are however under development. The more well known Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the inter organization exchange of business documentation in structured, machine process able form over computer communication network, is still the dominant past of E-Commerce.
 
 
Benefits if Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
The use of EDI eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional information flow.
·         The delay associated with making documents is eliminated.
·         Since data is not repeatedly keyed the chances of error is reduced.
·         Time required to re-enter data is saved,
·         As data is not re-entered at each step in the process, labor cost can be reduced.
·         Because time delays are reduced, there is more certainty in information flow.