an arrangement made between two e-commerce sites that directs viewers from one site to the other. Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce when a business sells products and services to customers who are primarily other businesses Business to Consumer (B2C) e-commerce when a business sells products and services to customers who are primarily individuals Business to Government (B2G) e-commerce occurs when a business sells products and services to a government entity. a count of the number of people who visit one site, click on an ad, and are taken to the site of the advertiser Consumer to Business (C2B) e-commerce when an individual sells products and services to a business Consumer to Consumer (C2C) e-commerce when an individual sells products and services to other individuals Consumer to Government (C2G) e-commerce when an individual sells products and services to a government entity the percentage of potential customers who visit your site who actually buy something the combining of purchase requests from multiple buyers into a single larger order, which justifies a discount from the business generation of people ushered into this world in the midst of the digital revolution both software and information- the software provides security for the transaction and the information includes payment information (for example the credit card information and the expiration date) and delivery information materials that are used in production in a manufacturing company or are placed on the shelf for sale in a retail environment electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) a system that sends bills (usually to end consumers) over the internet and provides easy-to-use mechanism (such as clicking a button) to pay them if the amount looks correct a mechanism for sending money from your checking or savings account to another person or organization electronic commerce (e-commerce) commerce, but it is commerce accelerated and enhanced by IT, in particular to the internet. electronic data interchange (EDI) the direct computer-to-computer transfer of transaction information contained in standard business documents, such as invoices and purchase orders, in a standard format electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) an interactive business providing a central space where multiple buyers and sellers can engage in e-commerce and/or other e-commerce business activities scrambles the contents of a file so that you can't read it without having the right decryption key. an internet based company that makes it easy for one person to pay for another person or organization over the internet financial EDI (financial electronic data interchange) an electronic process used primarily within the business to business e-commerve model for the payment of purchases government to business e-commerce (G2B) when a government entity sells products and services to businesses government to consumer e-commerce (G2C) the electronic commerce activities performed between a government and its citizens or consumers including paying taxes, registering vehicles, and providing information and services government to government e-commerce (G2G) either (1) the electronic commerce activities performed within a single nation's government or (2) the electronic commerce activities performed between two or more nations' governments including providing foreign aid an electronic marketplace that connects buyers and sellers across many industries, primarily for MRO materials commerce horizontal government integration the electronic integration of agencies, activities, and processes across a specific level of government refers to the tail of a sales curve, as a way of explaining e-commerce profitability m-commerce (wireless e-commerce) the term used to describe electronic commerce conducted over a wireless device such as a cell phone, PDA, or notebook maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materials (index materials) materials that are necessary for running a modern corporation, but do not relate to the company's primary business activities. the set of marking tools that your organization will use to pursue its marketing objectives in reaching and attracting potential customers the ability of an organization to give its customers the opportunity to tailor its product or service to the customers specifications broad general term describing your ability to use technology to wireless connect to and use centrally located information and/or application software small advertisement that appears on other sites path-to-profitabilty (P2P) a formal business plan that outlines key business issues such as customer targets, marketing strategies, operations strategies, and projected targets for income-statement and balance sheet items a form of pop-up ad that you do not see until you close your current browser window. smal web page containing an advertisement that appears on your screen outside the current web site loaded into your browser public key encryption (PKE) an encryption system that uses two keys: a public key that everyone can have and a private key for only the recipient the process in which a buyer posts its interest in buying a certain quantity of items with notations concerning quality, specification, and delivery timing, and sellers compete for the business by submitting successively lower bids until there is only one seller left the term applied to the current generation of young people because they spend so much time in front of a screen secure electronic transaction (SET) secure sockets layer (SSL) vertical government integration |