XML for Business: Document Types and Electronic Marketplaces, Slides of Fundamentals of E-Commerce

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XML’s Big Idea: Document Types • Catalogs • Price Lists • Purchase Orders • Invoices • Inventory Reports

-^ Bill of Materials •^ Payments •^ Schedules •^ Forecasts •^ ….whatever you need XML allows you to create whatever set of tagsare needed for your type of information The formal definition of permitted elements, attributes,and the rules by which they combine is called aDocument Type Definition or DTD or schema

Smart Processing with XML • XML enables content and hierarchical encoding andseparates that from formatting, which is controlled bybrowser “style sheets” •

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containers for extracting and manipulating productinformation as a unit^ –^ could sort products by

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-^ Explicit identification of each part enables itsautomated processing without “scraping and hoping”^ –^ Convert

from “USD” units to Euro, Yen, etc.

Company 1^ eCommerceServer^ ERP/AccountingSystems

Company 2^ eCommerceServer^ ERP/AccountingSystems Internet Benefit:^ XML can beprocessed automaticallywith huge cost savings

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Company 1 andCompany 2 have to agreeon document format XMLDocuments

Connecting using XML

E-Marketplace Architecture Suppliers ofIndirect Goods

Suppliers ofBusiness Services Suppliers ofDirect Goods

Buyers of Goods &Business Services

An e-marketplace is a destination on theInternet built on a commerce platform thatbrings businesses together to conduct e-commerce

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Marketplace Networks

Commerce One’s Global Solutions for B2B EnterpriseBuyers

Sellers

ServiceProviders

HorizontalTradingPortals Exchanges

e-Marketplaces

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