Cyber Assisted Business

Quite a lot has been written and said about the Internet and Electronic Commerce. Virtually every newspaper, magazine and TV show now pays attention to this phenomenon, and many books have been written on the subject. What is surprising about this is that no one ever mentions EDI — Electronic Data Interchange — in all of these discussions. This while just about all the large and medium-sized companies in Europe and North America have started to use EDI for their business communications. These companies have conducted Electronic Commerce for many years…they have exchanged structured information with each other and they have used electronic means to do it. If that is not Electronic Commerce, one might wonder what it is. In this book, we will talk about Electronic Commerce and the essential role that EDI plays in Electronic Commerce.