In the 1960s, electronic data interchange (EDI) E-commerce form the first railway in the United States, retail, grocery and locomotive manufacturing industries rising to its original mutual exchange and enhance their internal use enterprise data quality. In the 1970s, financial institutions through an exclusive network security in the electronic transfer of funds to expand operations in the telecommunications technology business applications. For the fiscal northern region enterprise information (especially payment and remittance transfers information) exchange in computer development. EDI standard format used electronic documents instead of ordinary paper business documents, such as invoices. Loaded list. Purchase orders. Single-ordered changes, quotations and six enterprises receive information document, and this document of the six enterprises formal business affairs of the United States 85%.

　　In the corresponding industries under the auspices of the Association, the main industry participants has been promoting the realization of EDI. But generally speaking, the use of EDI has not reached the desired level of the universal, especially in SMEs. As the realization of EDI applications and services the needs of high-cost and value-added net cost of sustained growth: because of the complexity of EDI technology to the needs of IT (information technology) professional and technical personnel than the number of small businesses existing number of technical personnel, EDI promotional rate slowed.

　　In addition. If an enterprise in order to give full play EDI effect, all departments need to function and the integrated information system. If ordering, inventory and accounting (departments), which frequently manifests itself through the use of EDI business challenges. Finally, the EDI between businesses, and consumers and enterprises can not be dealt with the relationship between.

　　(Nevertheless enterprises) has been the need for traditional EDI. Large companies on EDI infrastructure invest a lot of money get good return. Thus continued to make significant investments. But the users of telecommunications technology has been mainly based on the value-added network from the Internet-based methods into service. The user interface is more like Web browsers. That is why the current needs of IT programs to time and communication technologies to support EDI and e-commerce, enterprise systems integration reasons. Internet-based EDI has been greatly reduced and operating costs. Thereby creating more potential trading partner EDI combined with the ability of the Internet, in an increasingly broad range of trading partners to increase the attractiveness of EDI.