Week 1 Task 2

I chose to focus on and research the e-commerce business information systems. Electronic and mobile commerce, which entails transactions between business to business, business to consumer, or consumer to consumer transactions. Evolution has led further to mobile commerce which is the same sort of transactions only conducted on mobile devices in this case, making it easier to accomplish the same activities while completely on the move. The advantages of e-commerce and m-commerce to manual commerce mostly relate to speed. This us due to the amount of automation and programmable settings which can be dictated and monitored by management and other departments to make sure, in business to business transactions for example, that no specific employee steps beyond his or her allotted funds.
            In the case of e-commerce the input would be the user or employee credentials and contact information and the items they wish to order. The processing can be accomplished through mobile (cell phone, tablet, or laptop computer) means or by any other electronic means (computers). The data input after processed would be output into purchase order for example and could be filed away to catalog company trends or possible future necessity. The feedback could be easily gleaned from the output in this case since in most business to business transactions, upper level management has access to user transactions. Perhaps they could take prior input requests and create further changes to streamline these consistent requests or file for a group discount if certain patterns arise from employee purchases.
            An example of e-commerce or mobile commerce could be the amazon web store, which is accessible and used by businesses and consumers in an almost symbiotic environment. Users can sell items as well as purchase them, and businesses can purchase items as well as sell them. The mobile app created for amazon streamlines the user base since most everyone is using a smart phone in conjunction with their normal business practices.

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