E-Commerce

Draw and explain the architecture of an online shopping e-commerce portal that sells electronic goods ?
M-commerce application flow and challenge ?
Explain transplanted real world business models and native internet business models ?
cyber crime, cyber offences and related penalties ?
How can e-commerce portal make shopping secure ?
SSL (with figure) ?
EDI standards, architecture ?
inter-organizational and intra- organization e-commerce ?
Online trading, E-commerce security,digital signature ?
Two categories into which search engines are classified ?

E-COMMERCE

1. NOTES

E-commerce as shopping of business information maintaining business relationship and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunication networks.

E-Commerce encompasses one or more of the followings:-

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
E-mail
Shopping on world wide web
Product sales and services on the web
Outsourced customer and employee core operations.

Electronic commerce operates in all four of the major market segments

B2B
B2C
C2C
C2B

2.E COMMERCE WORK FLOW

3.TRADE CYCLE

General Trade Cycle

Pre- sales (finding a supplier and agreeing the terms)
Execution (selecting goods and taking delivery)
Settlement (Invoice if any and payment)
After-Sales (following up complaints or providing maintenance)

Electronic Data Interchange

Search
Negotiate
Order
Delivery
Invoice
Payment
After-Sales

4.E-MARKET

The E-marketplace is a virtual marketplace where buyer and suppliers meet to exchange information about product and service offers, and to negotiate and carry out business transaction.

5.INTERNET COMMERCE

Commercial activities associated with the internet.
Transplanted real world business models.

6.E-VISIBILITY (INCREASE IDEAS)

Increasing traffic.
Easy URL
Add icons of social networks
Advertising
Social empire optimization

7.SEARCH ENGINES

Search engines are classified into two categories.

Crawler Based Search Engine

These search engine called robot or bat generally index sites based on the content and links to your website

Example- GOOGLE AND ALTA

Human Powered Directories

These are actually compiled by human reviewers who examine and evaluate description of websites and the they rate the contents.(normally paid search engine)

8.TYPES OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM

9. HOW CAN E-COMMERCE PORTAL MAKES SHOPPING SECURE?

There are two level for securing information over the internet

DIGITAL CERTIFICATES
SSL

DIGITAL CERTIFICATES are electronic files that are used to uniquely identify people and resources over the internet . A CA is a trusted entity whose main responsibility is certifying the authenticity of users

SERVER CERTIFICATES
PERSONAL CERTIFICATES
PUBLISHER CERTIFICATES
CERTIFICATE INFORMATION

Digital certificate one based on public key cryptography

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SSL allows the client and server to communicate with each other in a way that prevents the tampering of data that is begin transmitted.

SSL requires all information sent between a client and a server be encrypted (by the server) and when sent and decrypted (by the client) when received.

SSL CERTIFICATES

40 bit encryption
128 bit encryption

10.WORKING OF SSL

11.EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer to computer exchange of business document in a standard electronic format between business partners.

Many business document can be exchanges using EDI like:-

PURCHASE ORDER
INVOICE
CUSTOMER DOCUMENTS
INVENTORY DOCUMENT
PAYMENT DOCUMENT
ADVANCE SHIP NOTICE

ITS USED FOR B2B

Processing of PO in the era of EDI (in figure)

EDI ARCHITECTURE

EDI STANDARDS

ANSI X12
- POPULAR IN NORTH AMERICAN REGION.
- ORDER PROCESSING, MATERIAL HANDLING , WAREHOUSING SERVICE, MANUFACTURING SERVICES.
EDIFACT
- ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE FOR ADMINISTRATION COMMERCE AND TRANSPORT.