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There are seven factors are considered the most important for developing
directional strategy.
Bonding factors are the glue of e-commerce strategy, without them the four
positional factors stand in isolation.
Leadership
• Does the CEO have a vision for e-commerce?
• Does the CEO have a track record of taking technology in stride?
• Do the senior executives share a technology vision? Also, do they understand its
impact on their functional area and the organization as a whole?
• Is the leadership stable or in a continual state of flux?
Infrastructure
• Can the organization's technology infrastructure support the new model of
e-business?
• Can the organization's technology infrastructure support the move to mass
customization?
• What are the implications for the organizational changes needed to be competitive
in an e-commerce environment?
• Does the organization's infrastructure interface with the infrastructures of their
suppliers and customers in the electronic marketplace?
Organizational Learning
• Does the organization support internal learning?
• Does the firm scan the technology horizon for change and then adopt that change
where appropriate.
• Does self-awareness inside the organization drive practice and process change.
• Can the learning of the organization with respect to markets, product, technology,
processes, etc., be quickly refocused into a new technology-based method of
production?
After several year of closed networks, the public network were established
were by existing networks were linked together. And individual were allowed
to lease a line for e-mail and related services.
Plus the power of the computer made e-commerce reality, Network is actually
the necessary for e-commerce development.
DOMAIN NAMES
Reference particular computers on the Internet, it is an alternative way to
find a computer on the internet without using cumbersome internet number (IP
address). It is divided into segments separated by periods
For example, in the case of “www.microsoft.com”
• “www” is the specific computer
• “com” is the top level domain
• “microsoft” is the subdomain
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
controls the domain name system
Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI)
Issues and administers domain names for most of the top level domains
WEB-BASED CLIENT/SERVER
Web browsers servers need as way to:
Locate each other so they can send requests and responses back and forth,
and communicate with one another
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) solve this problem. A new addressing scheme
Complete syntax - access-method://server-name[:port]/directory/file
WEB BROWSERS
IE suite of components consists of the browser along with the following tools:
• Outlook Express for e-mail reading
• FrontPage Express for authoring of HTML Web pages
• Net Meeting for collaboration
Netscape Navigator suite consists of the browser plus the following
components:
• Messenger for e-mail reading
• Composer for authoring HTML Web pages
• Collabora for news offerings
• Calendar for personal and group scheduling
• Netcaster for push delivery of Web pages
INTERNET SECURITY
Cornerstones of Security are
Authenticity
The sender (either client or server) of a message is who he, she or it claims
to be
Privacy
The contents of a message are secret and only known to the sender and receiver
Integrity
The contents of a message are not modified (intentionally or accidentally)
during transmission
Non-repudiation
The sender of a message cannot deny that he, she or it actually sent the message
Digital Envelope
Combination of symmetrical and public key encryption
FIREWALLS
o A network node consisting of both hardware and software that isolates a
private network from a public network
o Make sure that even if the passwords are compromised the intruder only
has restricted access to the rest of the network
o Two types
Dual-homed gateway
Bastion gateway connects a private internal network to outside
Internet
Proxies (software programs) run on the gateway server and pass
repackaged packets from one network to the other
Screen-host gateway
Screened subnet gateway in which the bastion gateway offers access to
a small segment of the internal network
Demilitarized zone is the open subnet
MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY
Webcasting— describes Internet-based broadcasting of audio and video
content
Types of Webcasts
Text Streams— Text-only wordcasts and datacasts
To deliver constant news and stock price updates
Ambient Webcasts— Video content
Is captured from a Webcam and delivered as single-frame updates that
are transmitted at periodic intervals
Streaming Audio— Web equivalent of radio
To deliver everything from talk radio to sports broadcasts to music
previews to archived music and radio shows
Streaming Video
To deliver videoconferences where high quality images are not
required and there is not much movement among participants
WEBCASTING
Multicasting
• Stream a Webcast from a central server to other media servers which
are distributed to different locations
• When a listener or viewer clicks on a Webcast link they are
automatically routed to the closest server
INTERNET TELEPHONES
Internet phones
• Programs that let you talk with other people using the Internet
• The added cost to the end user is at best zero and at worst a
substantially lower total charge than a standard telephone call
• PC-to-PC; PC-to-phone; and phone-to-phone
• Vendors who dominate the Internet telephone market space
• VocalTec ( www.vocaltec.com )
• IDT ( www.met2phone.com )
• Delta Three ( www.deltathree.com )
PREPARED BY:
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MASEGESE