This document discusses e-commerce from several perspectives. It defines e-commerce as systems that support online business transactions and identifies three main types: business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and consumer-to-consumer. The buyer's perspective involves finding products, researching options, selecting vendors, and completing purchases online. Sellers use e-commerce for market research, manufacturing products, and advertising to customers. The document also outlines benefits and challenges of e-commerce, implementation considerations, electronic payment systems, security concerns, and business resumption planning.

2.  Definition and Types
 E-Commerce from the Buyer’s Perspective
 E-Commerce from the Seller’s Perspective
 Benefits and Challenges of E-Commerce
 E-Commerce Implementation
 Electronic Payment System
 Security
 Business Resumption Planning

3.  Electronic commerce (e-commerce)
› Systems that support electronically executed
business transactions
› The fundamental purpose of e-commerce is
to execute transactions

4.  Business-to-consumer e-commerce (B2C)
› Connects individual consumers with sellers
, cutting out the middleman
› Example : Amazon.com
 Business-to-business e-commerce (B2B)
› Supports business transactions on across private
networks, the Internet, and the Web
 Consumer-to-consumer e-commerce (C2C)
› Connects individual sellers with people shopping
for used items
› Example: ebay.com

5.  Process of buying or acquiring goods or
services
› Realizing a need
› Researching a product
› Selecting a vendor
› Providing payment
› Accepting delivery
› Using product support

7.  Sellers business practices
› Market research to identify customer needs
› Manufacturing products or supplying
services that meet customer needs
› Marketing and advertising to make
customers aware of available products and
services

9. Buyers enjoy the convenience of
shopping from their desktop
Playing an increasingly important role in
our personal and professional lives
Allows us to discover new and interesting
products
Allows us to find better deals
Used to monitor bank accounts and
transfer electronic funds

11.  Challenges
› Established businesses must alter systems and
business practices
› Security, privacy, reliability: E-commerce can
survive only if all involved can trust the
system
› Social concerns

12.  E-tailing provides customers with
› Product information
› The ability to comparison shop
 E-tailing options
› Set up an electronic storefront
› Lease space in a cybermall
 Web site that allows users to browse through a
wide variety of products offered by several
different retailers

14.  Implementing e-commerce
 Requires large investment and expertise
 E-Commerce host
 A company that takes on some or all of the
responsibility of setting up and maintaining an e-
commerce system for a business or organization
 Infrastructure
 E-Commerce requires significant infrastructure changes
 Businesses must have employées who are technically
Savvy

15.  Underestimating the amount of Web
traffic
› Leads to network stalls and long wait times
 Typical e-commerce Web site
› Employs one or more server computers and
a high-speed Internet connection
 Outsourcing to a Web hosting company
› Can operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
› Load-balancing

16.  Web Server Software
› Responds to requests for Web pages
 Web Server Utility Programs
› Provide statistical information about server
usage and Web site traffic patterns
 E-Commerce Software
› Supports e-commerce activities
› Includes catalog management, electronic
shopping cart, and payment software

17.  Web Site Design Tools
› What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG)
applications or wizards
 Graphics Applications
› Design and create graphic elements of Web
sites
 Web Site Development Tools
› Application programming interfaces (API’s)
 Allow software engineers to develop Web-
driven programs

18.  proximity payment system
› allows customers to transfer funds wirelessly between their
mobile device and a point-of-sale terminal
 Electronic cash (e-cash or digital cash)
› Provides a private and secure method of transferring funds
from a bank account or credit card to online vendors or
individuals
› PayPal
 Best-known e-cash provider
 E-cash benefits
› Privacy - hides account information from vendors
› Convenient if seller cannot process a credit card
 Smartcards
› Credit cards with embedded microchips that can store
and process data and can be used as electronic wallets

22.  Great pains are taken to ensure that
transaction processing systems remain in
working order
 Business resumption planning (BRP)
› Takes into account every possible disaster
and provides courses of action to minimize
negative effects
› The goal is to protect data and keep key
systems operating until order is resumed

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