Exam 5: Electronic and Mobile Commerce and Enterprise Systems

Source data automation is the capturing and immediate processing of transaction data.

With _____,business transactions are accumulated over a period of time for processing in a single unit.

With _____ ,each transaction is processed immediately,without the delay of accumulating transactions into a batch.

The ______ is a credit card-sized device with an embedded microchip to provide memory and processing capability.

A _____ involves reentering data that was not typed or scanned properly.

Briefly describe the transaction processing cycle.

Although the business-to-business (B2B)market grabs more of the news headlines,the business-to-consumer (B2C)market is considerably larger and is growing more rapidly.

The length of the sales process for a typical business-to-business (B2B)sale is much longer and involves more decision makers than for a typical consumer-to-consumer (C2C)sale.

Large organizations,specifically members of the Fortune 1000,were the first to take on the challenge of implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP).

A(n)_____ is an electronic forum where manufacturers,suppliers,and competitors buy and sell goods,trade market information,and run back-office operations.

For m-commerce to work effectively,the interface between the wireless,handheld device and its user must improve to the point that it is nearly as easy to purchase an item on a wireless device as it is to purchase it on a PC.

_____ involves updating one or more databases with new transactions.

_____ is the conducting of business activities electronically over computer networks.

The _____ is a communications protocol used to secure sensitive data during e-commerce.

_____ is a subset of e-commerce that involves electronic transactions between consumers and a third party to facilitate the process.

_____ evolved from materials requirement planning systems (MRP)that tied together the production planning,inventory control,and purchasing business functions for manufacturing organizations.

Define electronic commerce and identify its various subsets.

An obstacle to business-to-business (B2C)e-commerce is that many goods and services are more expensive when purchased via the Web.

A charge card has a preset spending limit based on a user's credit history.

_____ are generally bought at a cost per thousand (CPM),cost per click (CPC),or cost per action (CPA),in which an advertiser pays only if a customer clicks through and then buys the product or service.