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The document discusses e-commerce and e-business. It defines e-commerce as digitally enabled commercial transactions between organizations and individuals using the internet, web, and apps. E-business is defined as the digital enabling of internal transactions and processes within a firm involving information systems controlled by the firm. While e-business supports a firm's internal operations, e-commerce directly generates revenue through transactions with external businesses and consumers. The document provides examples of Amazon conducting e-commerce and uses its e-business infrastructure to support online exchanges. It also discusses potential reasons consumers in Saudi Arabia may be unenthusiastic about online transactions, including lack of experience, infrastructure, and trust in online payments.

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ECOM101 Assignment No.1 1

The document discusses e-commerce and e-business. It defines e-commerce as digitally enabled commercial transactions between organizations and individuals using the internet, web, and apps. E-business is defined as the digital enabling of internal transactions and processes within a firm involving information systems controlled by the firm. While e-business supports a firm's internal operations, e-commerce directly generates revenue through transactions with external businesses and consumers. The document provides examples of Amazon conducting e-commerce and uses its e-business infrastructure to support online exchanges. It also discusses potential reasons consumers in Saudi Arabia may be unenthusiastic about online transactions, including lack of experience, infrastructure, and trust in online payments.

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E-Com-101:E-Commerce

ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
WEEK-5
1. Do you believe in E-Commerce, why? Discuss the advantages of E-Commerce.
Yes I believe in e-commerce because the e-commerce revolution is just beginning
Its Retail! Easier, Useful and bringing about some fundamental, unprecedented
shifts in commerce and is the I also strong believe that the biggest opportunity in
new firm and new value creation globally, exists in e-commerce.
The advantages of E-Commerce:
The business would have opened for 24 hours and the sales persona no need to
break the holiday day
Sells wider range of items
There is a big opportunity to reach a new markets
Can use the social media to sells the item e.g. twitter, Facebook, and weblogs
2. Why there is need of technology and concerns of technology in doing business?
Because the e-comers need for intern to be work so as the internet is kind of
technology as we are in 2015 which is the technology revolution and because there
is no person in the word doesnt have a smart phone or tablet... etc. kind of
technology that devolved every day

.1-Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers are well on their
way .2-to becoming the dominant mode of access to the Internet. The new client is
mobile
.3-HTML5 grows in popularity among publishers and developers and makes
possible Web applications that are just as visually rich and lively as so-called
native mobile apps.
.4- The Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses; transition to IPv6 begins
.5- Cloud computing reshapes computing and storage, and becomes an important
force in the delivery of software applications and online content
Benefits of technology:
.1- Provide better service to customers
.2- Support better relationships with key partners
.3- Allow customers to better guide the business
3. Discuss E-Commerce and E-Business, and how e-business is helping corporates
in business.
E-Commerce

E-Business

The use of the Internet, the Web, and apps

The digital enabling of transactions

to transact business. More formally,

and processes within a firm, involving

digitally enabled commercial transactions

information systems under the control

between and among organizations and

of the firm

individuals
A companys online inventory control mechanisms are a component of e-business,
but such internal processes do not directly generate revenue for the firm from
outside businesses or consumers, as e-commerce, by definition, does. It is true,
however, that a firms e-business infrastructure provides support for online ecommerce exchanges; the same infrastructure and skill sets are involved in both ebusiness and e-commerce. E-commerce and e-business systems blur together at the
business firm boundary, at the point where internal business systems link up with
suppliers or customers E-business applications turn into e-commerce precisely
when an exchange of value occurs

4. Discuss an example from your experience about any company conducting ECommerce? You can include any necessary screenshots, charts, graphs, etc. which
were helpful or harmful to your experience.
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, selling over forty categories of goods,
from books to electronics to groceries to jewelry to auto parts. The company is also
an ecommerce and Internet technology platform, a fulfillment and logistics
platform, a search technology, an Internet advertising platform, and even an
Internet startup incubator. In 2011 its net revenue increased 41% to $48.08 billion.

Amazon has three distinct businesses, plus a slew of nascent enterprises and
developing opportunities

Amazon.com has been seen as the traditional model of an E-Tailer selling products
over the web. Starting with a broad range of books, by today there is almost none
product which cannot be bought at Amazon. Furthermore Amazon became one of
the most prominent companies in the area of Cloud Computing. The Amazon
Simple Storage Services (S3) and the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) API
are driving the infrastructure as a service concept by providing storage and
computing power on demand
5. Why do you feel that KSA consumers might be unenthusiastic about conducting
business transactions online?
Lack of e-commerce experience; poor ICT infrastructure; Lack of online payment
options to build trust; Mistrust of online sales; the habits/culture of people in Saudi
Arabia not being favorable towards online purchases; Lack of clear rules/law for ecommerce in Saudi Arabia; difficulties in offering competitive advantage on the
Internet;

Reference:
1 http://www.limecanvas.com/advantages-of-e-commerce-for-business/
2 http://www.freelock.com/newsletter/information-technology-business-big-picture

Laudon, K., & Traver, C. (2013). E-commerce: Business, technology, society. 2013. (9th). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0-13-273035-8

NOTE: SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT LATEST BY WEEK-6.

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