Industry Terminology

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eBSP - e-Business Solution Provider.

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange. The electronic transfer of preformatted business documents, such as purchase orders and bills of lading, between trading partners.

E-Mail – Electronic mail. Any communications service that permits the electronic transmission and storage of messages and attached or enclosed files.

ECN - Electronic Communications Network.

eCRM - Electronic Customer Relationships Manager.

Encoding – File transfer formatting that enables encrypted, compressed or binary files to be transferred without corruption or loss of data.

Encryption – Coding information in a file or e-mail message to prevent third party interception over the network from accessing the information.

ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning.

ESCON – Enterprise Systems Connectivity. A high-speed fiber-optic serial channel for IBM’s ES/9000 processors. Initially based in part on a fiber-optic link operating at a speed of 200 mbits per second but has been driven faster.

ESD – Electronic Software Distribution. A means of installing software by transmitting it over a network.

Ethernet – Local-area network (LAN) topology commonly operating at 10 Mbps over various physical media such as coaxial cable, shielded or unshielded twisted pair and fiber optics.

Extranet – An extension of the internal web infrastructure to include business and other trusted organizations external to the implementing organization.

Extranets – One-to-one connections over the Internet. Unlike e-marketplaces, where the whole wide Web world is invited to the party, access to extranets is by invitation only.