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E-Commerce Consulting and Implementation Services
What is E-Commerce?
Electronic Commerce is the exchange of business
information via an electronic format, such as Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI), electronic mail (e-mail), electronic bulletin boards, and
electronic funds transfer. E-Commerce technologies are designed
to replace traditional paper based workflow with faster, more efficient
and reliable communications between computers.
The infrastructure for EC is networked computing,
which is emerging as the standard computing environment in business,
home and government. Networked computing connects several computers
and other electronic devices by telecommunication networks. This
allows users to access information stored in several places and
to communicate and collaborate with others from their desktop computers.
The vast majority of people use computers connected to a global
networked environment known as the Internet, or its counterpart
within organisations, called Intranet.
The lower levels of Electronic Commerce are concerned
with a basic network presence, company promotion, and pre- and post-sales
support. By using available "off-the-shelf" technologies,
these levels can be both cheap and straightforward to implement,
as thousands of small companies can already testify. By contrast,
the more advanced forms of E-Commerce pose complex problems that
are as much legal and cultural as technological. At these levels
there are no "of-the-shelf" solutions, so companies are
forced to develop their own custom systems. Thus at present it trends
to be only the larger and richer companies that are pioneering these
levels. However, over time the boundary of what is commonplace will
gradually move to encompass the more complex levels of Electronic
Commerce and further "off-the-shelf" technologies will
be established to support these higher levels, just as they have
been for the lower levels.
OCRA provides a full range of Electronic Commerce
consulting and implementation services that help companies build
successful Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce
Ventures. Please contact Dharmesh Naik at OCRA
(Mauritius) Limited or go to the website of our Group Company
www.e-solutionslimited.com
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