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E-Commerce
09-05-00 Charles Heath, Xavier University
History of E-Commerce
Background
E-commerce actually began in the 1970s when larger
corporations started creating private networks to share
information with business partners and suppliers.
This process, called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI),
transmitted standardized data that streamlined the
procurement process between businesses, so that paperwork
and human intervention were nearly eliminated.
EDI is still in place, and is so effective at reducing costs and
improving efficiency that an estimated 95% of Fortune
1,000 companies use it.
$20B
1996 1999
$700M