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    Ch.1-Part 2-An Introduction To E-Commerce

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    The document provides an introduction to e-commerce, discussing its key characteristics, limitations, forms, use of cloud computing, and relationship to blockchain technology. It outlines features of e-commerce like globalization and new business models, and limitations such as security and declining margins. The document also distinguishes between pure and partial e-commerce based on the degree of digitization of products, processes, and delivery methods. It explores how e-commerce benefits from hosting solutions in the cloud through scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. Finally, the document defines blockchain as a distributed database of time-stamped blocks linked through cryptographic hashes, and how this relates to e-commerce.

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    The document provides an introduction to e-commerce, discussing its key characteristics, limitations, forms, use of cloud computing, and relationship to blockchain technology. It outlines features of e-commerce like globalization and new business models, and limitations such as security and declining margins. The document also distinguishes between pure and partial e-commerce based on the degree of digitization of products, processes, and delivery methods. It explores how e-commerce benefits from hosting solutions in the cloud through scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. Finally, the document defines blockchain as a distributed database of time-stamped blocks linked through cryptographic hashes, and how this relates to e-commerce.

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    The document provides an introduction to e-commerce, discussing its key characteristics, limitations, forms, use of cloud computing, and relationship to blockchain technology. It outlines features of e-commerce like globalization and new business models, and limitations such as security and declining margins. The document also distinguishes between pure and partial e-commerce based on the degree of digitization of products, processes, and delivery methods. It explores how e-commerce benefits from hosting solutions in the cloud through scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. Finally, the document defines blockchain as a distributed database of time-stamped blocks linked through cryptographic hashes, and how this relates to e-commerce.

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    AN INTRODUCTION TO E-ECOMMERCE
    Content 2

     1. Characteristics of E-Commerce
     2. The Limitations of E-Commerce
     3. Pure Versus Partial E-Commerce
     4. E-Commerce in The Cloud
     5. E-Commerce & Blockchain
    1. Characteristics of E-Commerce 3
     E-commerce is characterized by the following features:
     Globalization
     Ease of Automated Processing
     Immediacy of result
     Openness and accessibility
     New business models
    2. The Limitations of E-Commerce 4
     Lack of Awareness
     Lack of Confidence
     Security
     Lack of privacy
     Ineffective Customer Relations
     Declining Margins
     Logistics & Supply Chain
     Touch and Feel
    3. Pure Versus Partial E-Commerce 5
     E-Commerce takes several forms depending on the degree of
    digitization, These are the important criteria:
     the product/service sold
     the process
     the delivery agent (or intermediary)
    3. Pure Versus Partial E-Commerce
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    4. E-Commerce in The Cloud 7
     The term Cloud refers to a Network or Internet. In other words,
    we can say that Cloud is something, which is present at
    remote location. Cloud can provide services over public and
    private networks, i.e., WAN, LAN or VPN. Applications such as
    e-mail, web conferencing, customer relationship
    management (CRM), E-Commerce execute on cloud.
    4. E-Commerce in The Cloud 8
     Benefits are offered by hosting e-commerce solution in the
    cloud:
     Scalability
     Resilience (flexibility)
     Performance
     Management
     Cost savings
    5. E-Commerce & Blockchain 9
     A blockchain is a distributed database, meaning that the
    storage devices for the database are not all connected to a
    common processor. It maintains a growing list of ordered
    records, called blocks. Each block has a timestamp and a link
    to a previous block.
     Each block has a unique hash. A can be understood as a
    fingerprint which is unique to each block. It identifies a block
    and all of its contents, and it's always unique, just like a
    fingerprint. So once a block is created, any change inside the
    block will cause the hash to change.
     Each block has the following attributes (data, hash, hash of
    the previous block).
    5. E-Commerce & Blockchain 10
    5. E-Commerce & Blockchain 11

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