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