Collection of E-Commerce Glossary P-Z
Payment systems Methods of transferring funds electronically.
Permission marketing Customer agrees to receive marketing information through electronic means.
Personalization Customised content delivered directly to an individual.
Portal A website that is a gateway to information on the internet, usually in the form of search engines, directories or other services.
Pricing strategies Approach to pricing models’ policies by firms.
Privacy The right of an individual to control the dissemination of information about them held by third parties.
Privacy statements A web page that explains how a company intends to protect the privacy of its customers.
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Public-key A unique identifier of a buyer or seller that is available to other parties to enable secure e-commerce using encryption based on digital certificates.
Public key encryption An asymmetric form of encryption in which keys or digital certificates used by the sender and receiver of information are different. The pair of keys has to be used together to encrypt and decrypt information.
Reintermediation The creation of new intermediaries between customers and suppliers.
Risk management Evaluation and management of strategies to reduce risk.
Scalability Capability of a system to adapt to increasing levels of demand placed upon it.
Search engines Automated tools using keywords to search for web pages.
Sell-side e-commerce E-commerce transactions between a supplier and its customers.
Software Instructions in programs that control the operations of a computer system.
Spam Unsolicited e-mail, sometimes referred to as junk e-mail.
Strategic analysis Collection and review of information pertaining to an organization’s internal processes and resources, and external environmental factors that highlight strategic performance.
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Strategy Formal course of action designed to achieve stated aims.
Strategy evaluation Process of evaluating the performance of key strategic indicators in an organization.
Strategy formulation Process of undertaking internal and external analysis to form strategic options and help managers choose an appropriate course of action to achieve stated aims.
Strategy implementation Formal process of implementing a chosen course of action to achieve stated aims.
System A collection of interrelated components that combine to achieve a stated objective.
Upstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its suppliers and intermediaries (buy-side e-commerce).
Usenet newsgroups Electronic bulletin board.
Value chain Model for analyzing how supply chain activities add value to products and services.
Value network Links between an organization and its partners that form an external value chain.
Viral marketing E-mail used for communicating promotional messages.
Virtual organization An organization that uses information and communications technologies to operate and carries out functions without clearly defined physical or geographical boundaries.
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Virtual reality A graphical representation of real environments.
Web browser Method of accessing and viewing information on websites.
Web page Visual information in graphical or text form on a website.
Websites Pages of information stored on the internet.