Copyright 2002 by
Prentice Hall, Inc.
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Introduction
§What is e-business?
The use of telecommunications networks,
particularly the Internet, to conduct business transactions.
§Three categories of e-business (see Figure 3.2):
§Business-to-employee: Intranet-based applications internal to a firm
§Business-to-consumer: Internet-based applications for a firm’s customers
§Business-to-business: Extranet-based applications for a firm’s business partners
§Originally the term e-commerce was used to refer to these three categories.
However, the term is now only used
to refer to business-to-consumer applications, and the term e-business is used to refer to these three categories.