MGST 391 Lecture Notes - Extranet, E-Governance, Retail

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Management Studies
• Course: MGST 391
• Professor: Ahmad Ali Sohrabi

Document Summary

E. business is the all electronic based information exchange within company or between companies and consumers using following platforms: Intranet is a network that connects people within a company to each other and to the company network. Extranet connects a company with its suppliers, distributors, and other outside partners. Internet is a vast public web of computer networks, which connects users of all types all around the world to each other. It is the ability to buy and sell goods and services electronically primarily by internet: marketing is the marketing side of e. commerce. Company efforts to communicate about, promote and sell products and services over internet. Information sharing of any kind e. g. text, audio, video, animation, graphics. What you see is sometimes not what you get (consumer) Sometimes physical presence is necessary e. g. smelling a perfume or fitting clothes (consumers) Logistic, shipping, distribution and delivery challenges (business) Availability of secure and affordable communication network.