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- EDI -- Electronic Data Interchange. EDI is a highly-structured technique of conveying financial and business data between businesses via private data networks. These networks are known as Value-Added Networks or VANs.
- Electronic Bill Presentment -- The practice of distributing billing statements to clientele electronically by way of the Internet or via online networks of other types.
- Electronic Commerce -- The system of advertising and selling goods or services to consumers by way of the Internet or via other online services. Another part of electronic commerce, or e-commerce, is utilizing data networks like the Internet or to simplify business practices and advance effectiveness in relations between company’s and their customers and/or trading partners.
- Electronic Mall -- A website, or section on an online service, were information is given on a wide assortment of third-party businesses, their services or goods, and a link to every merchant's website or facilities to make an order without having to leaving the mall.
- Electronic Wallet -- A program which is located on a PC and contains digital cash and/or credit card account information that is usable for paying for online purchases. Intended to work in combination with a compatible server-side payment processing application, the e-wallet is able to finalize transactions.
- Encryption -- The method of changing text that is readable to anyone into cipher or encrypted text into text that decipherable to only the author and the sanctioned receiver of the text. Credit card transactions transmitted over the Internet very often make use of an encryption format such as secure socket layer, or SSL, in order to provide Internet security and online security. Also related to the process of encryption are such terms as SSL secure server, SSL certificate, SSL encryption.
- Enterprise -- A word used in technology groups, referring to a sizeable company, government agency, or organization of similar stature. An enterprise-class server, for instance, is one able of concurrently supporting a great amount of users, such as in high-traffic or huge business website.
- E-tailing -- The procedure of advertising and selling retail products to customers by means of a SSL secure server online storefront. See also Electronic Commerce.
- Exchange -- A centralized, mutual marketplace, a place where both buyers and sellers can discuss and settle on prices. Exchange is commonly carried on in a format of bid and ask where all partakers can track the movement of price changes. They are fitting most for goods or services that are easily defined with a standard or framework which is uniform.
- Extranet -- An comprehensive and complex network composed of two or many more intranets. The extranet lets companies, or separate departments within one particular company, communicate and share information like inventories and supply chain data efficiently.
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