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E-Commerce and E-Business

8. “Replacement of your paper documents with electronic documents has several obvious benefits.”
Discuss.

9. Describe some of the ways of EDI transmission.
10. “EDI development follows a fairly standard pattern which is represented as a six stage maturity
model.” Discuss.
11. “Segments which are initializing with the UN are called the service segments.” Describe the
service segments of EDIFACT.
12. “EDIFACT has an underlying syntax.” Comment.
Answers: Self Assessment
1. (a) T (b) F (c) T (d) T (e) F (f) F
2. (a) VAN (b) UN/EDIFACT (c) Dial-up (d) service segments (e) ISO 9735

3. (a) UN/EDIFACT (b) Inexpensive microcomputer (c) Dial-up (d) Strategic
(e) UNA
4.8 Further Readings

Chan, H., Lee, R., Dillon, T., and Chang, E. (2008). E-Commerce: Fundamentals And
Applications, Student ed. New Delhi: Willey India (P.) Ltd.
Bajaj, K. K., and Nag, D. (2009) E-Commerce: The Cutting Edge of Business, 2nd ed. New
Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.

http://www.articlealley.com/article_1379061_22.html?ktrack=kcplink
http://www.edidev.com/EdiTransmit.htm
http://www.mbaknol.com/management-information-systems/electronic-data-
interchange-edi-standards-and-specifications/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38679311/19-EDI

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