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August 10, 1998 (TAIPEI) -- Business to business electronic-commerce
(B2B EC) applications in Taiwan are concentrated on cataloguing and
electronic data interchange (EDI), and nearly 40 percent of respondents
to a survey undertaken by the Market Intelligence Center of the Institute
for Information Industry (MIC/III) said that they will use e-commerce
to strengthen their customer service.
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Because using corporate extranets requires changing the ways that business
is conducted, B2B EC development in Taiwan has been oriented toward
cost reduction and increased efficiency so as to produce immediate results.
Typically, electronic cataloging and EDI require relatively few organizational
changes. In addition to reducing paperwork and postage costs and speeding
up document transfers, the potential exists for expanding into quoting
prices and placing orders online.
Chart: Current Applications of B2B EC in Taiwan
* Estimate
Source: MIC/III, ITIS
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