【正文】 reach in the marketplace to serve its II文獻(xiàn)綜述 第 5 頁(yè) customers more effectively. This article and subsequent articles in this series illustrate how IBM products and solutions, in particular the IBM Express Portfolio of products, can help you create and evolve such a solution. Each subsequent article in this series will expand on the concepts discussed in this introduction to explain how you can enable a small or medium pany for ebusiness. Smalltomedium business description What are the characteristics of a smalltomedium business? We define a midmarket, smalltomedium business as a pany with fewer than 1,000 employees. The typical pany has been in business for 17 years and has between six and ten branch offices. It is located in a suburban office park and uses local solution providers to build and maintain its IT solutions. The number of IT staff for any business scales with the size of the pany. On average, panies between 100 and 249 employees dedicate five staff members to ITrelated projects. This number sometimes exceeds 20 in panies between 500 and 999 employees. Business values Compared to large enterprises, a smaller business may have a limited budget for building adaptive, information technology infrastructures. With fewer resources, it needs tools and solutions that work out of the box, with minimal additional services. The most important business objectives are reducing operating costs, improving process efficiency, and demonstrating quick return on investment. Solution development, customization, and deployment must be rapid, lowering the cost of services. Ease of installation and upgrade are important too, and unwanted features must be avoided to keep cost and plexity in check. The time required to implement such a solution should be measured in weeks and days, not months. At the same time, the solution needs to represent a petitive advantage. To help smaller panies attain these goals, solution providers look for features that enable easy installation and administration of their solutions. Products must be selfdiagnosing and selfcorrecting in response to user, environmental, and internal errors. They must also provide simple upgrade paths for increasing functions and migrating to new releases. All of these attributes reduce the training, technical II文獻(xiàn)綜述 第 6 頁(yè) expertise, and time mitments required of the end users in the SMB. Business context For this article, we39。s IT requirements. Other smaller businesses create their own challenges in their quest to wrest market share from their petitors. Regardless of the driving force, small and medium businesses must bee ebusinesses to remain petitive in spite of a unique set of technical challenges and demands. To meet these challenges, these businesses often look to solution providers and business partners to assist in the transformation. This, in turn, creates many market opportunities for service providers and business partners as more businesses join the ranks in the march toward acquiring ebusiness capability. This article is for solution developers of smalltomedium businesses, who could be inhouse IT shops, services providers or business partners. It explains what you as a solution provider can do to help a small or medium business meet its goal of being an ebusiness. Our IBM Software Group System House eExchange team has developed a solution based on this scenario. Based on our market research, we39。 Express Portfolio. Introduction No business, big or small, can ignore the Web these days. The decision to bee an ebusiness can result from any number of challenges, including the need to adopt new technologies imposed by large customers who drive the pany39。s CEO: Ebusiness is all about cycle time, speed, globalization, enhanced productivity, reaching new customers and sharing knowledge across institutions for petitive advantage.” Li Qi, a professor and expert in this field, defines EC from the perspective of productive force. He thinks there should be two definitions. The broader definition is that electronic merce is the use of electronic tools in mercial activities. These electronic tools range from telegram, telephone of early times to Nil, Gil and INTERNET of modern times. The mercial activities here refer to all lawful activities of demand and consumption except for typical production process. The narrower definition is that electronic merce is the whole process in which people ,who master information technology and business regulations and rules, systematically use electronic tools and efficiently and lowcostly engage in all kinds of activities centering on the exchange of modities and services in a highly technically and economically advanced society. The first definition can be simplified as mercial electronic application。II文獻(xiàn)綜述 第 1 頁(yè) 外文原文一 Building an ebusiness foundation for a smalltomedium business 作者： Christopher L Merrill. 國(guó)籍： USA 出處： 原文正文： Abstract: As the 21st century has came,the modern an telemunication technologies based on the Inter has been uesd widely in many eonomic globalization and infromation have became the most obvious features and tends of the new human beings would enter a new age which is based on advanced Inter economy,which is the trend of society Inter`s birth shows the life of Inter based virtual is a new,powerful,fastgrowing and digital this circumstance,Chines enterprises started to enter Emarket,setting up their panies made breakthoughs on capital and scale limitations and aquiring acceesses for international for those small panies who really did a good job on the use of this trend, Chongqing Yiwoke Technolege Developoment Itd Corporation began to settle ,which is the third platform for business and other the petition in this area is extremely fierece,and the living env