Companies that sell other manufacturers or retailers' (sponsoring merchants) products on their Web sites. Users select a product at the affiliate Web site, but the sale is actually transacted at [..]

Software that acts as an intermediary for a person by performing some activity. Agents can "learn" an individual's preferences and act in the person's best interest and may [..]

Enables buyers within a market to select among various competitors by aggregating information about the market and its suppliers and providing this information via a Web site. Aggregators may provide [..]

All continuous activities associated with providing a reliable application environment providing all the facilities a particular application uses. One can think of providing diskspace and CPU power. A [..]

ASPs aggregate, facilitate, and broker IT services to deliver IT-enabled business solutions across a network via subscription-based pricing. EASP - Enterprise Application Service Provider - is a varia [..]

Discrete application services, such as consultancy and transformation services and continuous application services such as application management, application hosting and application support services. [..]

The ASP standard based on ITIL and augmented with ASP experience that enables the uniform delivery of continuous services. See channels for more info. Auction The sale of goods or services by bids (to [..]

An advertisement that appears on a Web site. The ad format is a "banner", a combination of graphic and textual content entreating the Web site user to "click through&quo [..]

Using technology from a carefully selected and mutually compatible set of technology components such as eBusiness applications and infrastructure all coming from very well recognized (and often leadin [..]

The set of business factors that are not pliable and that do not readily change to market forces or other non-disruptive forces.