Abstract

The goal of the electronic enterprise is to implement all major applications to build the extended enterprise that functions as a paperless organization, whose units and workers process information and communicate via all layers of the Enterprise Information Infrastructure (look at Chapter 3). The strategy of the e-enterprise development is the integration of all business and application components via the Internet or intranet/extranet environment (“electronization”). The e-enterprise evolves from the net-commerce, based on EDI (1980’s/1990’s), the e-commerce stage (1997) and its follower - the e-business stage (1999), as a result of the electronization and integration of all enterprise applications.