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Carpool as a way to reduce fuel consumption
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Table of Contents
2. Literature Review...................................................................................................................2
2.1 E commerce and e- business............................................................................................2
2.2 Real Life e-businesses......................................................................................................4
2.3 Systems Development Life Cycle....................................................................................6
2.4 Hardware and Software Considerations.........................................................................10
2.5 Conclusion......................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................14

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2. Literature Review
2.1 E commerce and e- business
Concepts are and their importance of e-commerce business
According to Laudon and Traver (2016), e-commerce is an integral part of e-business
and these types of business can be both financial as well as non-financial. The sales and
marketing strategies adopted by most of the commercial establishments depends on the use of
diverse categories of business models. The paper was very much useful as it provided a
detailed description about the effectiveness of the e-commerce platforms which are deployed
all over the globe. The paper highlighted that there are diverse categories of technologies
which are related with the most common e-commerce platforms such as electronic data
interchange, inventory management systems, supply chain management and internet
marketing.
The paper highlighted that there are both advantages as well as limitations related
with the use of e-commerce platforms. The positives of these e-commerce platforms includes
its ability to help the retailers of the business and the finance analysts to manage each order in
the relational database management table. The paper helped in understanding the global
trends of any particular industry can be identified with the help of the e-commerce platforms.
However, as discussed by Srinath (2017), there are few limitations related with the use of e-
commerce platform as well in terms of the additional cost of the internet charges which is
required and it can be considered as an additional cost for a corporate business organization.
Separate training session is required to work with these e-commerce platforms for the first
time.
Business Models

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According to Lemke et al. (2018), the products as well as the services are sold
directly between the customers of a business according if the business to customer model is
followed. This business models was very much popular in the early 90s. The paper
highlighted that this business model was first introduced in the year 1979 by Michael Aldrich
and effective marketing campaign are required to work with this business model. But, as
elaborated by (), business to business model is the other type of model and based on this
business model commercial establishments makes transaction with each other with the
involvement of any other organizations or third parties in between. This business model can
again be classified into two categories such as the vertical b2b model and the horizontal b2b
model. The paper highlighted that most of the manufacturing organizations all around the
world uses the vertical b2b model whereas the most of the trading markets makes the most
out of the horizontal b2b model.
On the other hand, as explained by Chowdhury et al. (2018), most of the business
organizations where consumers interacts with each other with the help of the customer to
customer business model. The paper highlighted that this business model has numerous
limitations as well in terms of the lack of control in a business transaction or payment related
issues. Apart from this business model, consumer to business model is also one of the most
used business model in the e-commerce businesses. The paper focussed on the fact that this
business model is used most in the crowed sourcing projects. The journal also highlighted the
contribution of the business to administration model which are considered by most of the
smaller e-commerce business organizations where the entire dealing is between the public
administration and different e-commerce companies. The journal reflected on the usability of
the consumer to administration model as it is very much useful in most of the educational
institutions which provides distant learning services.