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Chapter 9
SAP E-Business Applications
E-Business is the relocation of internal and external business processes to the Internet. Customer-
led E-Business has been highly publicized due to the astronomical market valuations attained
by hundreds of dot-com companies as well as the unprecedented amounts of venture capital
attracted by them during the period of Internet boom. Research studies suggest that the busi-
ness-to-business (B2B) segment will prove to be much more signicant in terms of the overall
E-business impact by an order of magnitude. However, there is no denying of the fact that the
Internet revolution was launched in the business-to- ...