...Development of an E-Commerce Website for ABC Corporation Tammy Semelsberger Managerial Applications of Information Technology – IS535 DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management August 18, 2012 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Company Background 3 Business Problems 4 High-Level Solution 5 Benefits of Solving the Problem 6 Business/Technical Approach 7 Business Process Changes 7 Technology / Business Practices Used to Augment Solutions 9 Conclusions and Overall Recommendations 10 High-level Implementation Plan 10 Summary 11 Summary of Recommendations 11 References 13 Development of an E-Commerce Website for ABC Corporation Abstract ABC Corporation (ABC) is a clothing store in Chicago, IL. They are a local store that needs to increase profitability and competitiveness. Designing a custom e-commerce online store on their current website, that is tailored to ABC’s goals and customer needs, is key in attracting and maintaining a customer base, and increasing profitability. The business problem to be solved is how to implement, market, and maintain a successful e-commerce site while building customer loyalty, increasing profitability, improving strategic planning, and expanding the market. ABC will use an outside source to develop, produce and maintain this store. There will be reporting systems in place to analyze data...
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...E-Commerce as a Capstone in Information Technology Jon A. Preston Assistant Professor Scott Taylor Instructional Assistant Department of Information Technology Clayton College and State University Morrow, GA 30260-0285 ABSTRACT Universities interested in keeping pace with the rapidly changing field of Information Technology (IT) are often pulled in many directions. Because Information Technology is such a popular field of study and work, educators must manage rising enrollments in an era where the ubiquity of information technology demands an ever-increasing number of specializations. As a result, industry and students expect a wider range of courses and specializations in their upper division coursework. E -commerce, one of the most promising of these maturing Information Technology specializations, affords an excellent opportunity to draw together the fundamentals of the field into a capstone series of courses. E -commerce fulfills a present demand from industry, provides a wonderful project and group-based “studio-style” learning environment, and is quite popular with students. This paper discusses our e-commerce degree specialization as a capstone to undergraduate Information Technology coursework. We also discuss the motivation for, design and execution of, and results from our courses. Keywords: E-commerce, information technology, capstone project, studio -style learning 1. MOTIVATION E-commerce degrees and Computer Science/Information Technology...
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...1. Introduction Electronic commerce has become an attractive market to the world, and the emerging business opportunities are now becoming a major factor in world economics. Although, investment through e-commerce channels returns high profits, but like many IT systems, it could lead business organizations to a risky situation or failing to deliver expected returns. The main cause of this is the inconsistency between the system design and the desired requirements or for the misunderstanding between IT professionals and business experts. Therefore, to design e-commerce system, a communication pattern is needed either between system developers and business owner, or between customers and the online business system. Moreover, e-commerce system should be adapted with the whole business environment such as business norms and behavior, customer practice, business rules and government policy. However, Semiotic that is ‘the science of signs’ has brought many approaches to facilitate the process of understand signs’ meaning. The approach of organizational semiotic defied the organization as a group of social norms and emphasizes on the people and their role and responsibility in order to merge them when analyzing and designing information system (Stamper et al, 2004). For e-commerce systems, there is a necessity of clear meaning for each symbol, icon and image because almost all transactions done through the web system without human agent involvement. Therefore, semiotic...
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...Find examples of each of the categories of e-commerce: B2B, B2C, P2P, and C2B. For each of the examples found, describe the levels of interactivity and customization on the Web site. From a consumer standpoint, what do you like and dislike about each of the Web sites? How do you propose that each of the Web sites could be improved? B2B E-Commerce Nistevo (www.nistevo.com) is a B2B e-commerce site serving vertical markets. Vertical markets serve an industry specific sector. Nistevo is a collaborative logistics enabler, founded in 2000 (Roberts, 2003). The members include several large corporations from food and packaging industry. The key issues addressed by this B2B marketplace include the reducing the inefficiency present in the logistics of shipping goods by trucks (Roberts, 2003). From a design perspective, this site (www.nistevo.com) has an ideal design for a B2B e-commerce site. In B2B sites, design aesthetics play a minor role, while the emphasis is generally on navigation and ease of information gathering (Miletsky, 2003). The Nistevo home page has links for customer support as well as login access to the Transportation Management System, which allows members of this B2B marketplace to access the system. The simple design of the site indicates its focus on its core technology, which is the transportation management system. The home page has direct links to its core technology marketplace, as well as links to customer support in order to address the problems its members...
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...Discussion E-commerce 2014 business. technology. society. tenth edition Global Edition The Financial Times: A Remodel for 21st Century Publishing Profitability Kenneth C. Laudon Carol Guercio Traver What were the objectives of the Financial Times in redesigning its e-commerce presence? What considerations, if any, unique to the newspaper business were involved? What did Financial Times do to meet the needs of mobile device users? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Slide 3-1 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Slide 3-3 Imagine Your E-commerce Presence What’s the idea? Vision Mission statement Target audience Intended market space Strategic analysis Internet marketing matrix Development timeline and preliminary budget Chapter 3 Building an E-commerce Presence: Web Sites, Mobile Sites, and Apps Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Slide 3-4 1 Imagine Your E-commerce Presence (cont.) Imagine Your E-commerce Presence (cont.) Where’s the money? Business model(s): Portal, e-tailer, content provider, transaction broker, market creator, service provider, community provider Characterize the marketplace Demographics Size, growth, changes Structure Competitors Suppliers Substitute products Revenue model(s): Advertising, subscriptions, transaction fees, sales, and affiliate revenue Where is the content coming from? Static or dynamic? Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Slide 3-5 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Slide 3-7 Imagine Your E-commerce...
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... BANKING AND FINANCE ASSIGNMENT: 1 1.(a) In plain words ‘E-commerce’ is simply Electronic commerce. E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium. Below are three models of Electronic commerce; • Business-to-Business(B2B) – In this type electronic commerce, the trade is only between businesses or other organisations. An example of B2B is Cisco. Cisco is a corporation that designs, manufactures and sells networking equipment,. Cisco trades with other businesses and organisations. • Business-to-Consumer(B2C) – This type of electronic commerce involves a business and an individula shopper. Businesses sell goods and products to individual shoppers(Consumer). An example of B2C is Amazon. Amazon is a E-commerce company that deals with online retailing. Sells to consumers. • Consumer-to-Consumer(C2C) – In this model electronic commerce, the trade off is done between consumers directly. An example of C2C is e-bay. E-bay is an E-commerce corporations that enables C2C (b) Internet The Internet is a ‘Network’consisiting of a worlwide interconnection of computer networks that facilitate data transmission and exchange. As organisations grow larger, communcation becomes complex. The internet makes it more efficient o communicate by providing a tool called ‘e-mail’. Electronic mail is a tool that allows a user to type a message on a computer connected to a network...
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...The Evolution and Development of E-Commerce Market and E-Cash Azamat Nogoev1 Faculty of Business Management and Globalization LimkokwingUniversity of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia Azamat_nogoev@yahoo.co.uk Rashad Yazdanifard2 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia rashadyazdanifard@yahoo.com Shahriar Mohseni3 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia shahriar_mohseni@yahoo.com Behrang Samadi4 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia behrang_samadi@yahoo.com Meera Menon5 Faculty of Design Inovation, LimkokwingUniversity of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia meera@limkokwing.edu.my ABSTRACT Given the impact of the Internet on all aspects of economic life, it can be regarded as a source of emergence of new electronic economy with an extremely rapid growth, creating new opportunities for Industrial and business activity, increase employment opportunities.Robust economic activity on the Internet or by using its capabilities led to the emergence of a new concept- electronic commerce. KEY WORDS Internet, electronic commerce, electronic payment systems. 1. INTRODUCTION Advances in communication technologies within the last decade of the twentieth century paved the way for innovations, promoting rapid globalization. The convergence of telecommunications and computer technology has given birth to a new business organizational system called the internet, presenting a revelation...
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...Introduction of Industry and Company Standing The company that I am working now is a brick and mortar company, which named Jefferson. The company has no E-commerce transaction. After doing some research on how to establish an E-commerce website for the company, we had come out with the whole idea on how to achieve it. Jefferson is a clothing company which origin from Malaysia. The main business we are doing all the time was producing cloth with affordable price yet fashionable for male. Going back to the history of the brands, in 1987, the company started their businesses in Komtar, Penang. Through years, the company had sails through successfully with the company’s strong venture in manufacturing and retailing their clothing. As time goes by the company has graced the fashion industry with beautiful apparels from formal lounge suits to off shelf design, smart casuals and classic lifestyle apparels. Riding the wave of paradigm, Jefferson moved beyond custom tailoring to its own classy boutiques and house brand. With this, the core of the company still remains as time passes by which is to produce high quality products from time to time. The company will always have and always welcome customer’s feedback for better understanding about their needs and concerns. Besides that, we also provide custom made clothes for some special occasion. We have this service is because we want to make sure our cloth is always up to the trend and able to compete with our competitors. We have...
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...The Role of a Systems Analyst John Willis IT510-01 June 17th, 2013 Prof: Michael H. McGivern The Role of a Systems Analyst The system development life cycle (SDLC) is a seven phased approach to augment a gap in business capabilities (Kendall & Kendall, 2011). Throughout these seven phases from initial problem identification to overall integration it is important to have a system analyst. The system analyst will be the person driving the project through each phase, ensuring that each phase is accomplished, and the acquiring business is happy. The analyst acts as the main focal point of the project, dealing with businesses as a consultant and the design workforce as a technical expert. Interacting with all spectrums of business a system analyst will find they need to have a wide range of qualities. If implementing an e-commerce business strategy a system analyst will find they need an even wider skillset to address the increased complexities. Qualifications for E-commerce Today’s ubiquitous computer/internet society has caused a surge in e-commerce and m-commerce. To implement an e-commerce business strategy a system analyst must be knowledgeable of all stages of the e-commerce multistage model. The model has five stages: search, negotiation, purchasing, product delivery, and after sales delivery (Stair & Reynolds, 2012). To successfully design the interaction of these stage the system analyst must be familiar with databases, supply chain management (SCM), online...
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...E-COMMERCE (TIT-501) UNIT I Introduction What is E-Commerce, Forces behind E-Commerce Industry Framework, Brief history of ECommerce, Inter Organizational E-Commerce Intra Organizational E-Commerce, and Consumer to Business Electronic Commerce, Architectural framework Network Infrastructure for E-Commerce Network Infrastructure for E-Commerce, Market forces behind I Way, Component of I way Access Equipment, Global Information Distribution Network, Broad band Telecommunication. UNIT-II Mobile Commerce Introduction to Mobile Commerce, Mobile Computing Application, Wireless Application Protocols, WAP Technology, Mobile Information Devices, Web Security Introduction to Web security, Firewalls & Transaction Security, Client Server Network, Emerging Client Server Security Threats, firewalls & Network Security. UNIT-III Encryption World Wide Web & Security, Encryption, Transaction security, Secret Key Encryption, Public Key Encryption, Virtual Private Network (VPM), Implementation Management Issues. UNIT - IV Electronic Payments Overview of Electronics payments, Digital Token based Electronics payment System, Smart Cards, Credit Card I Debit Card based EPS, Emerging financial Instruments, Home Banking, Online Banking. UNIT-V Net Commerce EDA, EDI Application in Business, Legal requirement in E -Commerce, Introduction to supply Chain Management, CRM, issues in Customer Relationship Management. References: 1. Greenstein and Feinman, “E-Commerce”, TMH 2. Ravi Kalakota, Andrew Whinston...
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...Essay title: opportunities and challenges that the Internet had brought In 2006, the total e-commerce spending by customers and businesses would reach and even surpass five trillion Dollars[1] according to e-marketer (2004). This astonishing number confirms that e-commerce and e-business must be taken into consideration now by firms in order to be competitive. Even if e-commerce and e-business seem to be rather new phenomena for customers, that is to say clients have not been used to buy online for a long time; the Internet has already a long history. In the late sixties[2] (1969), the American department of defence created ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) group in order to install secure networks among computers. In 1973, Great Britain is connected to ARPANET. Then in 1984, JANET: joint academic network, is installed in United Kingdom. But the big step is the introduction in 1990 of the World Wide Web, which is considered to be one of the most significant contributions to business activity. By the end of 1992, the Internet and the World Wide Web have already more than one million users over the world. In 1995, many elaborated browsers are being developed and created. Today, one can say we belong to the Internet generation, for in 2000; more than twenty million websites were registered in over one hundred fifty countries. Thus, this quick historic shows that the Internet is not new and has known a long evolution within fifty years. From an internal...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Project Context Through the years, E-commerce has revolutionized the way businesses are being made. A lot of companies and business firms have gone from being “conventional” to “online” due to the advantages that it offers. E-commerce, by its simplest definition, is the buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers over the Internet. E-commerce sites such as online stores and brochure sites have allowed businesses to deliver and display information about products and services online thus increasing its business opportunities as well as its profits. Infocom Solutions Powerlinks Co. is a Butuan-based company that offers IT products and services for clients around the province. The company is engaged in selling and installation of CCTV Surveillance Cameras, PABX Telephone Systems, Biometrics Identification and Door Access Control Systems as well as computer and networking services. Being a successful contractor of Bayan Telecommunications and a service provider for LECSL installation/configuration, the company is now looking for ways on how to improve their business. Due to this, the researchers develop an e-commerce website for Infocom Solutions Powerlinks Co. that will enable the business firm to showcase their products and services online. In addition, the proposed website will include a knowledge-base system that will provide troubleshooting tips to site visitors with regards to basic computer and surveillance camera...
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...Beginning 1) The term e-business refers to the digital enabling of transactions and processes involving an exchange of value across organizational boundaries. Answer: FALSE 2) Price discovery refers to the ability of merchants to segment the market into groups willing to pay different prices. Answer: FALSE 3) Personalization involves targeting marketing messages to specific individuals by adjusting the message based upon a consumer's preferences or past purchasing behavior. Answer: TRUE 4) The online marketplace is characterized by persistent price dispersion. Answer: TRUE 5) The future of e-commerce is likely to include a decrease in government regulation both in the United States and worldwide. Answer: FALSE 6) Which of the following statements about e-commerce in the United States in 2014 is not true? D) Growth rates for retail e-commerce are higher in the United States than in China. 7) In 2014, roughly ________ million people in the United States accessed the Internet via tablets. C) 147 8) Which of the following is not a major business trend in e-commerce in 2014-2015? B) Small businesses and entrepreneurs are hampered by the rising cost of market entry caused by increased presence of industry giants. 9) All of the following are major social trends in e-commerce in 2014-2015 except for: C) the refusal of online retailers to accept taxation of Internet sales. 10) Which of the following features of e-commerce technology is related to...
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...Data Warehouse Design for E-Commerce Environment Il-Yeol Song and Kelly LeVan-Shultz College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Song, sg963pfa)@drexel.edu ABSTRACT Data warehousing and electronic-commerce are two of the most rapidly expanding fields in recent information technologies. In this paper, we discuss the design of data warehouses for e-commerce environment. We discuss requirement analysis, logical design, and physical design issues in e-commerce environments. We have collected an extensive set of interesting OLAP queries for e-commerce environments, and classified them into categories. Based on these OLAP queries, we illustrate our design with data warehouse bus architecture, dimension table structures, a base star schema, and an aggregation star schema. We finally present various physical design considerations for implementing the dimensional models. We believe that our collection of OLAP queries and dimensional models would be very useful in developing any real-world data warehouses in e-commerce environments. 1. Introduction In this paper, we discuss the design of data warehouses for the electronic-commerce (e-commerce) environment. Data warehousing and e-commerce are two of the most rapidly expanding fields in recent information technologies. “E-commerce provides for sharing of business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunication networks...
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...National Extended Diploma in IT|Unit 8: E-commerce| Assignment title|Assignment 2 Shopping and Handling Money Online| In this assignment you will have opportunities to provide evidence against the following criteria.Indicate the page numbers where the evidence can be found | Criteria reference|To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the student is able to:||Task no.||Evidence| P5|Examine the social implications of e-commerce on society||1||Booklet| P6|Plan an e-commerce strategy||3||Magazine article or a Podcast| M3|Design an interface for an e-commerce business||5||Interface| D2|Compare different payment systems used by e-commerce systems||2||Booklet| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Learner declaration| I certify that the work submitted or this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged.Learner signature: Date:| Assignment brief| Qualification |Btec Level 3 National Extended Diploma in IT| Unit number and title|Unit 8: E-commerce| Start date|| Deadline || Assessor name|SGU| | Assignment title|Shopping and Handling Money Online| Assignment BriefIn this assignment you will be looking at alternative payment methods for e-commerce and how these affect the shopper’s experience online. You will then research existing e-commerce sites to better inform your own e-commerce strategy. | Scenario: You have been asked...
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