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NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

FOR E-COMMERCE
ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE
What is EDI? ORIGIN
INTERNET WEB
In 1969, Defense Department researchers
Internet is the backbone of any EC Computer-to-computer EDI in the Advanced Research Projects
business replaces postal mail, fax and
A computer network is any Agency (ARPA) used this direct
Web is like a software that run email.
technology that allows people to connnection network model to connect
connect computers to each other. on computer and connected to four computers
One particular internet, which uses a the internet
specific set of rules and connects The web potential was so high that
networks all over the world to each the moment that its grown was
other, is called the Internet. higher than the internet itselfs

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, can we


HYPOTHESIS transfer information without paper by
INTERNET WORLD WIDE using FAX,is there another way?

GROWTH WEB GROWTH


How EDI Works
Without EDI with EDI

EDI PURCHASING PROCESS

EDI vs
INTERNET

Companies that had been


unable to afford EDI began to
look at the Internet as an
enabling technology that might
help them sell to large
customers that demanded EDI
capabilities from their
suppliers

VALUE-ADDED
Dicrect connection EDI NETWORK Indirect EDI connection through a Van
CONCLUSION

EDI was the original form of


electronic commerce, and it
appears that it will continue to
evolve and be a part of ongoing
electronic commerce growth on
the Internet.

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