The Role of IT in E-commerce Application Services

Abstract

Electronic commerce refers to conduct the business communication and transactions over
internet and through computers. Electronic commerce is the buying and selling of goods and
services, and transfer of funds through digital communications. However, e-commerce also
includes all inter-company and intra-company functions such as marketing, finance,
manufacturing, and selling etc. It enable commerce and use electronic mail, electronic data
interchange, file transfer, fax, video conference or interaction with a remote computer.Electronic
commerce also include buying and selling over the world wide web and the internet, electronic
funds transfer, smart cards, digital cash and buy using the digital networks for business.The
major functions are electronic commerce applications, brokerage services, data or transaction
management, interface and support layers, secure messaging, security and electronic document
interchange, middleware and structured document interchange and network infrastructure and
basic communications services.E-commerce uses the web to bring together customers, vendors
and suppliers to each other. There are challenges like security, scalability and reliability. The
application services layers of e-commerce will be comprised of existing and future applications
to build on the innate architecture for customer to business, business to business and intraorganization.