Barriers to Electronic Commerce

Barrier	Large Enterprise	Small-Medium Enterprise
Global Barriers
Other priorities	X	X
Little or no understanding of EC technologies	X	X
Legal requirements for the country or cross-border commerce preclude doing business electronically	X	X
Non-subsidized or customized mapping required for each partner	X	X
Back-end application not enabled for EC	X	X
Variability of business rules	X	X
Volumes of transactions, collaborative processes don't justify costs	X	X
Disorganized supply chains	X	X
Functionality lost in transitioning to next-generation back-end applications	X	X
Other	X	X
Barriers to Fully Integrated Solutions
Costs of integration too high; volumes don't justify need	X	X
Off-the-shell applications don't support automatic/instant integration	X	X
No automatic ability to interface with PC-based applications or tools such as Excel, Lotus	X	X
Barriers to Legacy EDI
High VAN charges (perceived)	X	X
Shortage of EDI-literate resources	X	-
Barriers to Internet Commerce
Internet network does not exist or is unreliable in the company's country	X	-
No internet access or access limited to one workstation/server	-	X
Internet access not enabled for the employees that need it	X	X
Cost of internet access	-	X
High speed internet access not available	X	X
Connections too slow (even with high speed access)	X	X
Internal networking infrastructure not set up	X
VPNs and network security not standardized	X	X
Limited interoperability between vendor products	X	X
Not willing to sacrifice investment in legacy solutions	X	X
Barriers to XML
Shortage of XML-literate resources	X	-
Shortage resources literate in specific XML vocabularies (e.g. RosettaNet-literate, OAGIS-literate, etc.	X	-
Partners don't use the same XML semantic standard	X	X
"Low cost" solutions are still too expensive	-	X