E-Commerce Systems Architecture and Applications

Identify all the major building blocks of an e-commerce system and understand how these building blocks interact to form an effective e-commerce system with E-Commerce Systems: Architecture, Design, and Implementation . This new book presents you with the key tools and technologies in use today, and the complete understanding you need to build an e-commerce architecture for the various types of commercial transactions - business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and intra-business. Plus, it conveys the dramatic impact e-commerce has on an enterprise's IT strategy. You get a close examination of the primary elements of the e-commerce systems architecture, including information appliances, computing networks, e-commerce services and their applications, and electronic payment systems, to help you plan, build, and maintain a vigorous e-commerce site of your own. Going beyond e-commerce via the Internet and World Wide Web, you also learn how online commercial transactions can and will take place utilizing cellular and pager networks. E-Commerce Systems: Architecture, Design, and Implementation also includes: A review of current and emergent technologies providing you with multiple options when planning and building an e-commerce system; Information on the sources for the technology you need to build your e-commerce infrastructure; A method for calculating the costs associated with building an e-commerce system suited to your organization 's needs; The technical know-how you need to understand the inherent complexities and related solutions in e-commerce system design and manufacture; Discussion of e-commerce system security issues, the popular technologies in use to control security, and the strategies you can use to assess the costs and risks associated with security implementation.