Development of E-Commerce

E-Commerce including one term in the "electronic commerce" has changed over time. Initially, electronic commerce is the use of trading activity in commercial transactions, for example send commercial documents like purchase orders electronically. Then developed into an activity that have a more precise term is "web commerce" (purchase of goods and services through the World Wide Web). At first when the web became famous in the community in 1994, many journalists predicted that e-commerce will become a new economic sector. Between the era so the 1998 and 2000 many businesses in the U.S. and Europe to develop this trade website.

E-com, or Electronic Commerce is a rapidly growing technology in the business world and the Internet. utilization E-commerce system, actually may benefit many parties, both the consumer, as well as the producers and sellers (retailers). For example for the consumer, using the E-Commerce can make shopping a short time. In addition, the price of goods sold through E-commerce is usually cheaper than the price at the store, because the distribution channels from producers of goods to the seller is shorter than conventional stores.

In Indonesia, e-commerce system is less popular, because many Internet users who still doubt the security of this system, and their lack of knowledge about what is E-Commerce true. Thus far, the official website has been conducting e-commerce in Indonesia is RisTI Shop. Risti, the Division of Research and Information Technology of PT. Telkom, providing e-commerce services for the provision of telecommunications equipment product information and non-telecommunications. This website also has supported the process of online transactions.

RisTI addition, it seems there is no other website which organizes e-commerce in Indonesia. In fact, to create a system of E-commerce, investment incurred is not too large. In addition, the scope of marketing its products can be much more widespread and cost of implementation and promotion of E-commerce is also smaller compared with the cost of conventional store system.

The development of information technology leads to changes in our culture everyday today. In this era, the electronic media become one mainstay of media for communication and business, one that began ogled way is to use the internet. One of the real form of business that utilizes the Internet is called e-commerce, which is the development of commerce using electronic media is the internet.

Although there are many business people who do not know really about the Internet is but because of the growing business pressure led to this medium, many business people start using it. For business people who have not really understood the use of outsourcing this activity. Other Here, businessmen began to understand the benefits of e-commerce is starting to build a system to implement this system in the company's activities.

The main advantage gained by using this technology is an open platform that is not dependent on one particular vendor, so that e-commerce systems can be developed quickly without being bound by one particular vendor.

Although until now there has been no standard definition of e-commerce, some say that e-commerce is a website that used to trade (such Storefront), on the other hand there is to link e-commerce with EDI (electronic data interchange) and so on. For example, the following is one definition of e-commerce activities of approaching e-commerce is taken from a book Electronic Commerce, A Managerial Prespective (Turban, 2002). E-commerce is an emerging concept that describes the process of buying, selling, or exchanging products, services, and information via computer networks, and including the Internet. Thus, if we more deeply definition above, it can be said that e-commerce in a communication perspective shipping activities or product sales, service and or payment information via computer networks or the Internet, whereas in the perspective of business processes is a system that uses information technology in realizing otomisasi business transactions and work flow, service dalamperspektif said that e-commerce is a way for companies, consumers and management to cut costs there, as long as it continues to improve the quality of the product / service and speed of distribution while the latter in perspective online, e-commerce provides the opportunity to buy and sell products / services and information by using the Internet and other online service facilities.

By looking at the goals above, it can be concluded that e-commerce is a system built with the aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in business by utilizing information technology to improve the quality of products / services, and information and reduce the costs that are not needed so that the price of the product / service and the information can be compressed in such a way without reducing the existing quality. Types of E-Commerce general activities of the e-commerce involves various activities ranging from direct marketing, search jobs, online banking, banking, e-government, e-purchasing, B2B exchanges, ccommerce, m-commerce, auctions, travel, online publishing and consumer services.

In e-commerce applications can be divided into two major parts of business to business (B2B) and business to customer (B2C). In B2B development faster than B2C. Business to business e-commerce in the commonly used mechanism for EDI (electronic data interchange). But because so many existing standardization, the implementation of business makes it difficult to interact with each other so that today's developed called the Extensible Markup Language (XML) developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML is stored in the structure and type of data elements in the form of documents such as HTML tags so that it is effectively used in a different system. So that the previous EDI network, often referred to VAN (value added network) with its popular Internet networks began to be known a system called EDI over the Internet and other systems that were developed as an electronic / internet procurement and ERP (enterprise resource planning).

In general, as for the activities of this as B2B trading partners and exchange of data (data exchange) are carried out regularly among businesspeople. While in business to customer (B2C) generally use the Internet with various model approaches such as electronic shopping mall or a portal concept. Both of them use the website as its base. Electronic shopping mall activities more to promote products and services available to support online catalogs and so on. As an example of this system such as amazon (http://www.amazon.com) and netmarket (http://www.netmarket.com). While the concept is more a portal to a more complex services where an electronic shopping mall also included therein, with the fixed-based website, on the portal are also other services like e-mail, online databases, news and so on. As an example of this system such as netscape home (http://home.netscape.com) and yahoo.