Co-operating in a project or program that includes the process of monitoring and critiquing using internet, emails, and groupware.

Business conducted without the exchange of paper based documents through the use of electronic and/or online devices. It includes activities such as procurement, order entry, transaction processing, payment, authentication and nonrepudiation, inventory

Organization established to provide standardized electronic commerce codes for membership-based businesses over the internet. United Nations sponsored an open, transparent, and efficient process for the development, maintenance, and distribution of these codes.

Computer-based, investing order-matching systems that bypass the middleman-broker for order placement, providing investors with direct access to the market. Each brokerage firm decides which ECN it wants in its order-flow system, and

An electronic platform that allows electronic TRADING of financial or physical ASSETS in cash or DERIVATIVE form. ECNs were popularized during the technology boom of the 1990s and have become a critical

Merchant account provider, or some other credit card transaction processor using point-of-sale terminals, or a specialized software for online transaction, for submitting and validating credit card transactions See also automatic data capture.

EDGAR is a computerized reporting system that automatically collects, validates, indexes, accepts, and forwards submissions by securities firms, and makes the data almost instantly available online. US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Like the internet this predecessor to electronic commerce is a standards-based system, independent of the type of computer hardware and software employed. It facilitates computer-to-computer exchange of electronic documents, such as purchase

Set of standards, directories, and guidelines, collectively registered as ISO-9735. They define data sets and protocols for electronic documents used in electronic data interchange (EDI). It is referred to as UN/EDIFACT, as

Recording, classifying, manipulating, and summarizing data, using computers. Known also as Automatic data processing, data processing, or information processing.

Electronic data processing insurance for income loss due lost capability. It covers computers and data systems.

Text, graphics, or spreadsheets generated by computer on any media or device for any electronic processing, including EDI. Electronically stored documents follow no format or readability requirements except when retrieve for human-use.

Retail trade system managing transactions online. Monies authorized by the buyer is electronically transferred from his or her account to that of the retailer. The buyer swipes his or her bank or

Commercial website that provides coordination and synchronization services to electronic commerce (ecommerce) its users or partners.

The combination of hardware and software used to manage electronic information. It makes stored information from internal and external sources more accessible, and facilitates better decision making. The data is retained in

Known also as electronic magazine (e-zine).

Database of digitized audio, video, and written material, on a physical site and/or a website, giving 24hour online access to users.

Online transfer of text, voice, and/or video messages. Email emanates from one computer or device and arrives at another computer. Typically, in these days, this occurs over the internet.

A list of email addresses. Retained electronically by the email user to send email to a group of users or to easily find the addresses of a selected user. Some companies buy

One or more companies selling similar products use a Web site to display their electronic catalogs. E-mall maintenance companies often charge commission from the sales revenue generated at that site they maintain.