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e-Commerce as a concept is fairly old and established. It has disrupted the market since its advent with its unique proposition of buying orders online, without having a view or feel of the product before. Skeptics have long been silenced about its ability to change the market and e-Commerce juggernauts like Amazon, eBay, Flipkart etc. are one of the biggest companies today in the geographies they operate.

1979 was the pivotal year for e-Commerce, when a salesperson from Honeywell, UK, in his quest for new options for increasing his revenue target, came up with the very idea of it. World’s first B2C e- Commerce store would be opened in 1984 by Gateshead SIS/Tesco and the first B2B e-Commerce store would be opened, quite surprisingly, in 1981 by Thomson Holidays. Since the inception of internet and the later World Wide Web, e-Commerce has been a case of continued and exponential growth story, disrupting almost all the industries.

In 2015, Professor Klaus Schawb, founder and chairman of world economic forum, introduced the phrase “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. He envisaged that emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Robotics, IOT, Blockchain, etc. will be bedrocks of this revolution and will transform every walk of our life. Moving forward 4 years, we can see the impact of these technologies across industries. They provide better customer experience and create superior value for the stakeholders.

As more and more retailers are embracing ecommerce for their B2B operations, it is imperative to have the correct set of features that would increase its acceptance to its buyers. The overall business goal should be a happy and delighted customer. While, features like fast loading time, attractive and simple UI, great content management system, scalability, security are standard requirements, the below five when added to these will make it a complete solution.

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Thought of sharing a small yet tricky way to add a web service reference directly from AX 2012 without using proxy DLL, for consuming the same.

Normally, when we right click on AOT "References", we can add only the DLL references from there. (Figure 1)

But if we create a project, and add a "Reference" group, and then right click on it, we will get both the options; of adding the DLL reference as well as adding the web service reference. (Figure 2)