Infrastructure in e-commerce is the back bone framework or backbone of the business is run by ICT technologies. Choi, Stahl, & Whinston (1997) identified e-commerce framework infratrusture infrstructure become business service, information distribution infrastructure, multimedia content and network, network infrastructure, and interfacing infrastructure. In the picture below can be seen the kinds of technology that is included in each e-commerce infrastructure framework.
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| E-commerce Framwork. Source Choi et al. (1997), p. 18. |
Framework The third is the application of e-commerce itself. In this case, the application of e-commerce is highly dependent on the business model that is run by a service provider of e-commerce. For example, companies that provide or carry out online job applications (eg www.jobsdb.com) will have a different business model of the Bank is running the application for the purposes of e-Banking
From the explanation in this subsection can be concluded that e-commerce is a business concept that is different from traditional business, in which case the medium used for business (searching catalogs, advertising and transactions) using ICT technologies. The use of ICT technology in e-commerce raises new paradigm of doing business (business model), where it involves the support of the application for the purposes of e-commerce, supporting services and infrastructure of ICT technology, in this case the Internet and Web.
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