Proceedings

The case study was made on a sample of 115 young persons who wanted:
� to launch small personal electronic business;
� or group (2-5 people)- for starting e-business;
� to propose launching a new business direction (electronic) in the companies
they worked for.
The next table presents the most important result of the case study:
Type of
e-commerce
system
Caracteristics
(1) –
programming all
the code
Non e-commerce platforms e-commerce platforms
(2)- using
freeware
templates
~ 486 ~
(3)- software
existing
(4)- using a
platform
Type of company Small Small Small/ Small/Medium/ Large
medium Large
Difficulty of
implementation
5 4 3 2 3
Duration of
implementation
5 3 3 3 2
Modularity 2 3 2 0- for free/3 5
Personalization 5 3 2 2- for free/3 5
Cost of software 0 0 3 0- for free /3 5
Cost of
implementation
2 2 3 0 0
Efficiency 3 2 3 3- for free /4 5
Code reuse 0 5 3 5 5
Application testing 5 4 2 3 2
Number of persons
required
2-5 1-2 3-8 1-3 2-3
Percentage of
people questioned
19 10 22 41 8
(Personal research)
(5)- buying a
platform
The number represent a scale value from 0=minim/easy/cheap, to
5= maxim/difficult/expensive.
The study highlights the fact that you can create e-commerce/e-business sites with
minimum effort and maximum efficiency using stable platform, with secure and
proven technology.
If you want a lot of personalizations, you have time, a small budget, you can chose to
write direct the code aplications. If you are a large company, with experience in
traditional business and you want to start a new section on-line, you can choose to buy
a stable e-business system, modular, with a lot of personalization, expensive, but
secure and robust.
CONCLUSION
E-business is booming as organizations strive to gain efficiencies through improved
workflows, resource management, just-in-time provisioning and business
relationships. This paper explores the driving forces behind such developments,
introducing fundamental technologies and protocols (on previous articles) upon which
new systems and services can be built - including Service Oriented Architectures, web
services, XML and associated security standards. Case studies illustrate the business