Systems Issues in E-Commerce

Abstract

This paper profiles critical systems issues in deriving value from e-commerce initiatives.  With the help of several organizational processes and functions, opportunities for accounting are identified to reduce the impending failure rate as companies experiment and adapt to the new business model.  Organizations should adopt a holistic approach to address systems design, implementation and control issues.  The planning and execution of e-commerce activity should focus on glitch free front-end portals that are followed up with tight back-end data integrity across various nodes of the value chain.