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CHAPTER 03. E-business Infrastructure. Learning objectives. Outline the hardware and software technologies used to build an e-business infrastructure within an organisation and with its partners

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CHAPTER 03

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  1. CHAPTER 03 E-business Infrastructure

  2. Learning objectives • Outline the hardware and software technologies used to build an e-business infrastructure within an organisation and with its partners • Outline the hardware and software requirements necessary to enable employee access to the Internet and hosting of e-commerce services.

  3. Issues for managers • What are the practical risks to the organization of failure to adequately managee-commerce infrastructure? • How should staff access to the Internet be managed?

  4. Why the jargon? • Why do business managers need to know about the jargon and technology?

  5. Activity 3.1 Infrastructure issues • Make a list of the potential problems for users of e-business services developed by The B2C Company. • You should consider problems faced by users of e-business applications who are both internal and external to the organization. • Base your answer on problems you have experienced on a web site that can be related to network, hardware and software failures or problems with data quality.

  6. Typical problems • Web site communications too slow. • Web site not available. • Bugs on site through pages being unavailable or information typed in forms not being executed. • Ordered products not delivered on time. • E-mails not replied to. • Customers’ privacy or trust is broken through security problems such as credit cards being stolen or addresses sold to other companies.

  7. Activity – Internet infrastructure components • Write down all the different types of hardware and software involved from when a user types in a web address such as www.google.com to the web site being loaded

  8. A five-layer model of e-business infrastructure

  9. INTERNET

  10. Internet infrastructurecomponents Physical and network infrastructure components of the Internet

  11. Information exchange between a web browser and web server Figure 3.7Information exchange between a web browser and web server

  12. History of the Internet Figure 3.3Internet timeline

  13. Intranets and extranets • An intranet is a private network within a single company using Internet standards to enable employees to share information using e-mail and web publishing. • An extranet is formed by extending an intranet beyond a company to customers, suppliers and collaborators.

  14. Intranet applications • Intranets are used extensively for supporting sell-side e-commerce from within the marketing function. Advantages: – Reduced product lifecycles – Reduced costs through higher productivity and savings on hard copy – Better customer service – Distribution of information through remote offices nationally and globally

  15. Main intranet benefits • Improved information sharing • Enhanced communications and information sharing • Increased consistency of information • Increased accuracy of information • Reduced or eliminated processing • Easier organisational publishing

  16. Extranet applications • A middleware is used to facilitate communications between business applications including data transfer and control. • The middleware technology to allow communications across extranets is now also referred to as enterprise application integration (EAI).

  17. Firewalls•

  18. World Wide Web • WWW is the most common technique for publishing information on the Internet. It is accessed through web browsers which display web pages of embedded graphics and HTML/XMLencoded text. • Web browsers provide an easy method of accessing and viewing information stored as web documents on different servers. • Web servers store and present the web pages accessed by web browsers

  19. The relationship between intranets, extranets and the Internet

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