What is an e-service?
Simply put, an e-service is an electronic service available via the Net that completes tasks, solves problems, or conducts transactions. E-services can be used by people, businesses, and other e-services and can be accessed via a wide range of information appliances.
Three years ago companies began using the Internet to deliver information, streamline business processes, and link to partners and customers. Chapter 1 of the Internet was about the creation of e-business and e-commerce systems and it was dominated by web sites and store fronts. If you are like other Internet-savvy companies, you are asking yourself a critical question: What’s next?
The Net is primed for its next evolution. Chapter 2 of the Internet will be about the proliferation of e-services–modular, nimble, electronic services that perform work, achieve tasks, or complete transactions. Almost any asset can be turned into an e-service and offered via the Internet to drive new revenue streams and create new efficiencies. With e-services, Chapter 2 of the Internet will be very different than Chapter 1.
Use the sections on the right to learn more about what Chapter 2 of the Internet will look like, how to build and use e-services to transform your businesss, what our ecosystem of alliance partners are doing, and how to use e-services that are available today to generate revenue and create efficiencies.
Trading Portals
As Chapter 2 of the Internet emerges traditional portals are undergoing a profound transformation. They are no longer mere access points that aggregate information and catalog-based transactions for specific markets. One of the clearest demonstrations of a Chapter 1 to Chapter 2 transformation is the emergence of business-to-business trading portals. These trading portals enhance the capabilities they bring to their target markets by offering specific e-services that add value and perform work.
The e-services on trading portals deliver a wide range of functions such as the dynamic aggregation of hundreds of thousands of products from thousands of different vendors. They provide advanced market-maker e-services such as bidding, reverse auctions, and collective bidding. Some provide direct e-service to e-service connections so business ERP systems can connect directly to portal-based procurement services. Others replace traditional manual business processes for purchase order routing and approval with completely automated e-services. Trading portals that deploy e-services deliver a long list of benefits to businesses - streamlined supply chains, lighter IT, faster reaction times, and reduced costs - to name just a few.
The e-services on these new trading portals go far beyond what was available with traditional dot-com and e-business solutions. Chapter 2 is happening now. Check out a few examples of trading portals.
HP publishing
Publishing has come a long way from the days of letterpresses and typewriters, and today is being increasingly automated and expanded with digital printing solutions that integrate new technologies and capitalize on the explosive growth of the Internet and mobile devices.
For publishers looking to meet consumer demand for mobile news and information, HP’s new-media publishing services enable the delivery of customized publications to wireless Internet appliances such as Web-enabled phones, hand-helds and laptops. Serving as a single solution for publishers, HP will leverage its innovative technology and strong infrastructure to stay one step ahead of the growing demand for wireless news and personalized products.
On the commercial printing front, HP is partnering with other companies to increase competitiveness, accuracy and efficiencies. Most recently it announced printer and digital graphics workflow from Heidelberg with HP’s printing, graphics and thermal inkjet technology to enable new applications and business opportunities.
See how HP is shaping the future digital publishing with cost-effective printing solutions and new media services that give publishers a competitive edge.
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