Index_E

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early adopters, 74

e-Business trends, 9–13, 16–17, 63

ebXML, 39

Eclipse IDE, 193

economic trends and Internet services, 9–13

e-Directory, 197

efficiency of IT, 113, 116

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), 15–16, 24, 117, 129, 137, 177, 198–200

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), 134

e-mail, 11, 115, 200

emerging standards, 48–54

emerging vendors, 199–200

enabling standards, 32–40

Engineering Change Notifications (ECN), 125

ENIAC, early computer, 160

Enron, 9

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), 10–13, 17, 62–63, 66–67, 101, 116, 137, 150, 182, 185–187, 199

vendors of, 187–190

enterprise application vendors, 185–187

enterprise architecture, pros and cons of, 161–164

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), 4–7, 9–10, 13, 16–17, 61, 65, 99, 101, 173, 189

manufacturing industries and, 123–125, 131

Microsoft applications and, 12

SAP and, 10–11

vendors of, 185

Epicor, 185

evolution of computer systems, 10–11, 160

evolving standards, 40–42, 67

exception management, 51

Exchange Mail Server, 177

executive buy-in for Web services, 147

exposed systems/information, 52

exteNd Composer, 150

eXtensible Markup Language (XML), 6, 11, 14, 16, 27, 35–40, 43, 52, 60, 65, 67, 69, 105, 116, 127, 141, 150–151, 176–177, 185–189, 194, 200, 205

eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), 40

Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL), 101, 187