Service Oriented Business to Business e-Commerce: A Case Study of Cogwheel Incorporated

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, Blekinge Institute of Technology, course: System Integration, language: English, abstract: The concept of eCommerce has evolved over the years from a conventional ¿buy and sell¿ model where internet is merely a virtual market place; to a more robust, explicitly defined and seamless integration of businesses. The emerging eCommerce places emphasis on value creation; buyers have value for their money and are willing to pay for services, sellers equally derive values from income, information and knowledge available from processed data.

This write-up, proposes a business to business (B2B) eCommerce system model to Cogwheel Incorporated; a manufacturing company that produces cogwheel. Cogwheel is a key component of car gearbox. The company intends to reduce administrative cost to almost zero through B2B. This paper considers the dynamics involved in implementing B2B with modern service oriented architecture.