Business management services, namely, establishing a standardized system of describing, categorizing and organizing information about office supplies, office products, office furniture, computers and computer supplies, to facilitate electronic cataloguing and electronic searching for, and selection of, products in such categories, for use in online e-commerce catalogs and electronic online ordering functions to facilitate the sale of merchandise via the Internet; providing an online computer database containing product information for office supplies, office products, office furniture, computers and computer supplies from multiple manufacturers and suppliers using the previously described standardized system; managing such databases and data included therein and licensing or otherwise making available for use by third parties such databases and data, either alone or as part of other services, including management of websites and the creation and operation of online ordering services, online catalog services with search capabilities