The IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly TC on Electronic Commerce) acts as an international forum to promote E-Commerce research and education, and participate in setting up technical standards in this area. Issues related to the design, analysis and implementation of E-Commerce systems and solutions are of interest. These include design and analysis of distributed architectures and enabling technologies (e.g. Autonomic computing, Grid, Web Services, etc.) and application development on E-Commerce system.

The Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS) sponsors professional meetings, publishes newsletters and other documents, sets guidelines for educational programs, and it helps co-ordinate academic, funding agency, and industry activities in the above areas.

The TCBIS organizes annual conferences. In addition, TCBIS plans to publish a newsletter to help IEEE/Computer Society members keep abreast of the events occurring within this field.