Learn as much as you can about EDI, VANs, and features that VANsoffer. The smalland medium-sized companies can participate and gain by the useof electronic commerce and EDI in their business processes. Iwould recommend they carefully evaluate how to change the businessprocesses to take advantage of such automation. Small and medium-sized companies not already familiarwith it should be wondering what they're missing. All these elements of electronic commercehave in some way been integrated into the lives of most consumersand businesses.
Most electronic commerce occurs across phone lines.
EDI transactions,Internet messages, ATM transactions, and credit card verificationsall use the same electronic pathways. The quality of the connectionshas improved sufficiently to enable high-speed data transmissionsacross normal lines. Today, high-speedconnections and data compression software have improved that ratedramatically. Scientists and engineers have also made great progressat addressing the bandwidth problem, so that phone lines can carrymore data faster than ever before. Phone lines aren't the only way to get around in the world ofelectronic commerce.