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 Document Automation in Supply Chain and Logistics
 Domestic and International Payment Systems
 News Groups
 Enterprise Content Management
 Online Banking
 Online Shopping and Order Tracking
 Instant Messaging
 Online Office Suites
 Social Networking
 Electronic Tickets
 Digital Wallet Management
 Teleconferencing
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 SUPPLY CHAIN - System of organizations , people , activities , info & resources in moving product
or service from supplier to customer .

 LOGISTICS - The commercial activity of transporting goods to customers .

 DOCUMENT AUTOMATION - The design of systems and workflows that assist in the creation
electronic documents .

 Supply chain and logistics involve online documents like invoice , packing slips / lists forms or
reports of many types , which are usually the contracts between the consignee ( buyer ) and the
consigner ( seller ) . It involves online services like user or seller registration , online document
generator which generates these documents required . Hence , it is an implementation of e - commerce .
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 PAYMENT SYSTEM - System used to settle the financial transactions through the transfer of
monetary value , and includes the institutions , instruments , people , rules , procedures , standards and
technologies that make such exchanges possible .

 Electronic Payment can narrowly refer to e - commerce , as it is a payment made for buying and
selling goods and services offered through internet . Domestic Payment refers to the payment made
within the country and international payment refers to the payment made globally across various
countries . International Payment refers to the payment made across the countries .
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 NEWSGROUPS - It is a repository for messages posted from many users in different locations .
These are functionally similar to the discussion forums on the World Wide Web .

 Newsgroup servers are hosted by various organizations and institutions . Most host their own servers
or rent access to one , for their subscribers . It involves user subscription and payment online , it
makes an important implementation of e - commerce .
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 ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT ( E C M ) - It is a formalized means of organizing
and storing an organization’s documents , and other content , that relate to the organization’s process .

 An organization has various branches worldwide which makes it a complex system to manage and
hence keep it running . Thus , E C M was introduced which made the management online . E C M
involves various document generation , transaction etc , online which makes it an important
implementation of e - commerce .
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 ONLINE BANKING - An electronic payment system that enables the customers of a bank or other
financial institutions to conduct financial transactions through a website .

 Online Banking involves transactional and non - transactional activities . It has it’s advantages to both
bank and its customer . It allows them to permanently access the bank from anywhere in lower
transaction costs and without any security problems .

 Since Online Banking involves online services and operations with the bank which is a major
concept of e - commerce , so it is an implementation of e - commerce .
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 ONLINE SHOPPING - A form of e - commerce which allows the consumers to directly buy goods
or services from a seller over the internet using any web - browser .

 ORDER TRACKING - A process of determining the current and past locations of a unique item or
property in distribution and logistics .

 Both online shopping and order tracking are e - commerce concepts by themselves . So they come
under a crucial implementation of e - commerce .
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 INSTANT MESSAGING - A type of online chat which offers real time text transmission over the
internet .

 It provides online services to each and every user of the messaging application to communicate with
the other users of the same application . This online service providing process is done using the e -
commerce concepts , hence instant messaging is also an implementation of e - commerce .
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 OFFICE SUITES - Offered by various websites in the form of Software As A Service . These can
be accessed online by any internet - enabled device and allow people to work together world wide
and at any time .

 Office Suites include various applications - Document Creation and Editing Applications , Publishing
Applications , Collaborative Applications , and Management Applications .

 Office suites involve online services like document creating , editing and publishing services which
can be made by a single person or a group of people from any location world wide . Since there is
a trading of services using internet in office suites , it is an implementation of e - commerce .
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 SOCIAL NETWORK - A social structure made up of various individuals or organizations and other
social interactions between these social actors .

 SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - It is a platform to build the social relations among people
who share similar interests , activities , backgrounds , or real - life connections . It also represents each
user’s profile , social links and other additional services .

 Since it involves various online services to bring up individuals or organizations , or build various
social interactions or relations between these social actors using the internet as a medium , it is an
application of e - commerce .
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 TICKET - It is a transit pass used to enter into a service or industry . It is mainly used in
transport services or entertainment industry .

 ELECTRONIC TICKET - It is otherwise called as Digital Ticket . It is a more efficient method of

 It involves online registration services , online ticket booking services and payment system for
purchasing the tickets . As a lot of online trading of products ( tickets ) and services are involved in
electronic ticketing , hence it is an important implementation of e - commerce .
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 WALLET - It is a small , flat case that is used to carry items such as cash , credit/debit cards ,
identification documents etc.

 DIGITAL WALLET - It is an electronic device that allows the user to make e - commerce
transactions .

 A digital wallet has both information and software component , in which it stores the complete
information about the user/biller . It can be used anytime by the user to buy any product online
from any e - commerce website , without any more form filling or identification documents .
 Since it involves online services like user registration services , online security services , online
management services and online purchasing services , it is an important implementation of e -
commerce .
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 TELECONFERENCE - Live exchange and mass articulation of information among several machines
remote from one but linked by a telecommunication system .

 INTERNET TELECONFERENCING - It involves conducting a teleconference over the internet or

 It involves various services , like online registration services and online teleconferencing services ,
provided by the various servers over the internet . So it is an implementation of e - commerce .
SUMMARY
 E - Commerce is the trading or facilitation of trading in products or services using computer
networks , such as Internet .
 E - Commerce has played a major role in the world since 1979 when Online Shopping was introduced
.
 Various applications of E - Commerce have been put to use in the society these days .
 Various documents in logistics such as invoice , content lists , pick tickets , arrival acknowledgements
or bill of landing are generated online in Supply Chain Management .
 Online payment system is now - a - days the most common implementation of e - commerce.
 Newsgroup subscription and services have been playing an important role in the society for online
broadcasting of news worldwide , which has been one of the most successful implementations of e -
commerce .
 Management of multi - national organizations in world - wide have been dependent on online services
like online documentation , collaboration , web content management , record management and business
process management .
 Online Banking involves various e - commercial methods of accessing the bank , such as registration of a
new customer , checking the account balance or transferring funds , which are some services provided by
the bank server over the internet .
 E - Commerce itself is online shopping website or order tracking systems of a package .
 Instant messaging has become one of the most common implementations of e - commerce where the
clients use the service of messaging over the internet .
 Online Office Suites are being used world wide , which have helped various people all over the world to
work together .
 Social Networking and Teleconferencing have been a benchmark in the society for making various social
relations among people present all over the world .
 People have been provided online services for generating electronic tickets for various official and
entertainment purposes , which have been made cheaper than offline ticket counters .
 Digital Wallets have done a much quicker services for purchasing goods and products over the internet
from any e - commerce websites .
 E - Commerce has changed the world in terms of providing goods and services .
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