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Traditional businesses that truly want to garner the benefits of an
e-businesses will need to reorient and complement their current
transactional model towards the Internet. Many great benefits are
fully realized by embracing e-business initiatives. Some of these are:
- Provide up-to-date information
Visitors whom wish to view the latest information can do so by connecting
to the companies website.
- Improve delivery of service
By streamlining back-office processes, businesses can free up employees so
that they can focus on service delivery rather than on bureaucratic
process.
- Cut transaction processing costs
A state of Arizona study that found that online license renewals cost
about $2 per transaction compared with $7 for over-the-counter ones. Given
that Arizona renews about 800,000 licenses each year, the savings from
that service alone become impressive quickly.
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Cross-platform connectivity
Browsers on UNIX, Mac, or PC platforms can all access the same core
information.
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Global access
You can request documents from servers located anywhere on a global
TCP/IP network like the Internet, or a private one like a LAN or WAN.
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Ease of use
Files are served at a click of a button through a simple hypertext
link. A web is a series of interlinked hypertext documents.
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Flexibility
Web clients can access many different server types and can recognize
any file type. WWW servers provide flexible interface to other apps,
including online databases.
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Open systems
Any software that follows the published protocols can be used as a
browser or editor.
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