’ The business landscape has been radically changed since the advent of the Internet. The Internet has opened new opportunities for companies to revamp existing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems and introduce new business models. In particular, the integration of business processes across increasingly fluid boundaries of companies into virtual enterprises, can be potentially greatly eas...

In traditional business environments, many intercompany processes (such as buying and billing) are performed using paper documents, such as purchase orders and invoices. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) allows companies to exchange these documents in a structured and computer-processable format. This helps to automate and streamline business by eliminating or simplifying clerical tasks, speedi...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), an example of an Inter-Organisational System (IOS), has the potential to provide companies with tangible benefits, such as improvements to overall efficiency and cost effectiveness, and strategic advantages, including the strengthening of trading partner relationships and the redesigning of internal procedures. Many organisations more notably small and medium-...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) is sharing business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunications networks. Traditional E-commerce, conducted with the use of information technologies centering on electronic data interchange (EDI) over proprietary value-added networks, is rapidly moving to the Internet. The Internet's World ...

Standardized business documents, data definitions, item description and identification and business processes have been seen as key to effective interorganizational commerce since the 1980s, when electronic data interchange (EDI) became the technology of choice for business-to-business coordination. Vertical information systems (VIS) standards are designed to promote communication and coordinat...

One of the most important factors that are immense in the success of a project is communication. Strategic effective communications not only plays a critical role in bringing success in team based projects, but it also helps in bringing success in overall organization by making it competitive on the basis of good organizational communication. Strategic communications entails that goals are set,...

National innovation systems are influencing the path of innovation diffusion like e-business. Important enablers of e-business diffusion are IT mature and innovation friendly enterprises. An indicator of IT maturity is the diffusion of former innovations like electronic data interchange (EDI). The innovation adoption behavior can be described as the adopting date after occurrence of an innovati...

Several initiatives support supply chain integration by using Extensible Markup Language (XML). We study the main XML technologies to accomplish the integration. The basic XML technologies enable straightforward exchange of data as XML documents between the trading partners in a supply chain. We clarify the motivation to standardise the use of XML technologies in e-business frameworks. We have ...