The European e-Business Report The European e ... - empirica
The European e-Business Report The European e ... - empirica
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>European</strong> E-<strong>Business</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2005<br />
ERP<br />
Extranet<br />
ICT<br />
Enterprise Resource Planning. A software system that helps to integrate and cover all<br />
major business activities within a company, including product planning, parts purchasing,<br />
inventory management, order tracking, human resources and finance.<br />
A network using internet protocols that allows external organisations (for example<br />
customers or suppliers) access to selected internal data. Essentially it is an Intranet which<br />
gives external users restricted access (often password protected) to information through<br />
the firewall.<br />
Information and communication technology. ICT includes networks, computers, other data<br />
processing and transmitting equipment, and software. <strong>The</strong> application of ICT in business<br />
processes leads to e-business, if non-proprietary networks are used.<br />
Information security Measures taken to protect information systems against unauthorised use and attacks<br />
Internet<br />
Interoperability<br />
Intranet<br />
ISDN<br />
KM<br />
LAN<br />
Leased line<br />
M-commerce<br />
Micro enterprise<br />
Modem<br />
MRO goods<br />
Processes<br />
Remote access<br />
<strong>The</strong> world's largest computer communication system, with an estimated 700 million users<br />
worldwide. 111 <strong>The</strong> internet is a loose confederation of principally academic and research<br />
computer networks. It is not a network but rather the interconnection of thousands of<br />
separate networks using a common language.<br />
<strong>The</strong> technical features of a group of interconnected systems (includes equipment owned<br />
and operated by the customer which is attached to the public telecommunication network)<br />
which ensure end-to-end provision of a given service in a consistent and predictable way.<br />
An internal internet, that is an internal network running using TCP/IP, which makes<br />
information available within the company. Most Intranets are connected to the internet,<br />
and use firewalls to prevent unauthorised access.<br />
Integrated Services Digital Network. An international telecommunications standard for<br />
transmission of voice and data over dial-up lines running at 64 Kbit/s (kilobits per second).<br />
It allows sharing of multiple devices on a single line (for example, phone, computer, fax).<br />
Knowledge Management. ICT solutions that support enterprises in systematically<br />
gathering, organising, sharing, and analysing their knowledge in terms of resources,<br />
documents, and people skills. Knowledge management software typically involves data<br />
mining and some method of operation to push information to users.<br />
Local Area Network. <strong>The</strong> most common way of connecting computers in a small area<br />
(typically inside a building or organisation) for sharing databases and communication<br />
facilities. <strong>The</strong> two most common versions are Ethernet and Token Ring. Implementation is<br />
based on coaxial cables or plain wires. Speed achieved ranges from 10 Mbps to 100<br />
Mbps.<br />
A private communication channel leased from the common carrier. It is usually a<br />
dedicated fixed-route link (e.g. point-to-point frame relay).<br />
Mobile commerce. E-commerce that takes place using mobile connection devices and<br />
through data transmission via technical standards for mobile communication.<br />
A company with less than 10 employees.<br />
Modulator/Demodulator. A device that modulates outgoing digital signals from a computer<br />
or other digital device to analogue signals suitable to be transmitted through a<br />
conventional telephone line (copper twisted pair telephone). <strong>The</strong> reverse procedure takes<br />
place for incoming signals.<br />
Maintenance, repair and operating goods. Supplies which companies need to maintain<br />
their operations, for example office supplies, in contrast to "direct production goods"<br />
which are components of the goods and services the company produces.<br />
<strong>Business</strong> processes are operations that transform the state of an object or a person. This<br />
can, for example, be an order placed via the internet. Ordering an object or a service<br />
creates a liability for the supplier to deliver, and initiates the transfer of property rights<br />
from one entity to another. <strong>The</strong> electronic handling of processes is likely to speed them up<br />
and to introduce new processes in the realisation of the same transaction.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ability of a company computer network's transmission points to gain access to a<br />
computer at a different location.<br />
111 Cf. Global Internet Statistics by Global Reach, www.glreach.com<br />
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