Business-to-Business

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Business-to-Business

• Authors Mladenka Jakovljevic,
  jmbeba_at_eunet.yu
• Prof. Dr. Veljko
  Milutinovic, vm_at_etf.bg.ac.yu

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Internet

• The most popular e-commerce channel.

n The Internet enables connectivity to all your




eBusiness constituents customers,
partners, suppliers, and employees.
n They will conduct over 2.6 trillion a




year in commerce over the Net.
n By 2004, Internet use will grow to over 700
million



users.
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E-commerce

• There are two major types of e-commerce
  
  
  
  

n business-to-consumer (B2C) - in which consumers
purchase products and services from businesses,
n business-to-business (B2B) - in which
businesses buy and sell among themselves.
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E-commerce

• The eBusiness challenge is twofold
  
  

n Satisfy your customers




better than your competitors can.

n Run a superior, technological




infrastructure that can




support, and enhance your




eBusiness potential.
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B2B
n A typical business depends on other business.
n B2B e-commerce automates and
streamlines the process of buying and
selling.
n B2B makes product information available
globally



and
updates it in real time.
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Framework
n A business can be viewed as a set of
processes.
n A process can be anything from work order
generation



to human resources development.
n Company planners capture




business processes in




models and implement them as
enterprise applications.
n The trend has been to include more and
more outside entities




such as customers and suppliers in process
engineering.
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EDI and XML
n Business conduct e-commerce transactions




through standards such as
n electronic data interchange (EDI) and
n the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
n EDI is the electronic exchange of structured




documents between trading partners.
n XML is a markup language for documents




containing structured information.
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XML
n XML is specifically focused on defining the
content of



a document, rather than how the data
will look.
n XML is supported by computing software and
hardware



companies such as Sun
Microsystems, IBM, Oracle, and
Microsoft.
n Document content structured with XML can be
delivered



over the HTTP protocol as easily as
HTML.
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E-Commerce Frameworks

• The role of frameworks in B2B transactions

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Interoperability
n Interoperability is a key issue in B2B.
n "Interoperability" means
n the ability of separate systems to be linked
together
n and then operate as if they were a single
entity.
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Framework

• The most popular frameworks for eBusiness are

n OBI
n eCo Framework
n RosettaNet
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OBI
n OBI is a freely available standard




which any organization can obtain and
use.
n The standard contain n an architecture,
n detailed technical specifications and
guidelines, and n compliance and
implementation information.
n Copies of the standard may be obtained
through the OBI



Consortiums World Wide Web site
at www.openbuy.org
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eCo Framework
n The Initiative of CommerceNet
n The eCo Specification is an architectural
framework that
n enables businesses to




discover each other on the World
Wide Web
n determine how they can do business.
n An XML based , object-oriented
interoperability framework.
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RosettaNet
n RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded,
non-profit consortium of major n
Information Technology (IT), n Electronic
Components (EC), and n Semiconductor
Manufacturing (SM) vendors.
n A pioneer to the field of XML based




open business-to-business electronic
commerce standards.
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E-Marketplace
n For procurement transactions, buyers
and sellers can meet in an electronic




marketplace and exchange information.
n This is the most advanced and efficient form
of B2B.
n The marketplaces build on
n a common Internet platform,
n WWW browsers,
n advanced security technologies,
n the latest payment systems, and
n experience from other approaches.
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E-Marketplace
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Solution
n Commerce One has developed two distinct
e-marketplace solutions
n MarketSet
n Net Market Maker.
n TIBCOs three product lines
n TIBCO ActiveEnterprise ,
n TIBCO ActiveExchange, and
n TIBCO ActivePortal
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