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Article: Starting your e-business journey; New Zealand's smaller businesses appear to be collectively dragging their e-business heels. But there are plenty of reasons why businesses should look more closely at the benefits e-business might bring.(Special Report/e-Business for Small Business)
- Article from:
- NZ Business
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Despite endless hype about the benefits of e-business for small to medium enterprises (SMEs), scratch the surface and you'll find few examples of mature e-business activity amongst New Zealand SMEs.
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The term e-business continues to mean different things to different people, but in 2004 can be safely described as the connecting of different business systems (usually software applications) and individuals using information technology and wired and wireless telecommunications services.
E-business means you can "do business" electronically, irrespective of differences in computing platform or telecommunications service.
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