Proposal of application architecture in electronic commerce service between companies

This paper proposes the concept of a secure application architecture that helps a service provider to enterprise a business-to-business e-commerce service. Recently, there has been a paradigm shift to inter-enterprise integration. We have started a new service provider business for business media services that is based on two concepts: business process integration and high-grade security in response to variety types of cooperation. The infrastructure of this service can provide various services such as marketing, design, manufacturing, inspection, distribution, payment, and maintenance. In this paper, the proposed architecture is applied to a quotation support system that is used for three types of quotation in a procurement business, that is a specified, members, and general quotation. It will enable many companies to construct paper-less office systems easily and also to shorten the response time for quotations with documents like design specifications between buyers and vendors.