Essays on E-Commerce

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What are the different Vulnerable Points in an E-commerce Environment?

An e-commerce environment has many vulnerable points that attackers can get to the system. One of the points of attack is the channel of connection between the client and the ISP provider. The attacker can tap this point and make an attack on the connection. The attacker can intercept the communication between the user and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and use security threats like spoofing to get data from the client. The client will lose money in the process. Another point of vulnerability is the ISP networks. There could be sniffer programs Continue reading...

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Amazon has the benefit of eliminating overhead as well as carrying hefty quantities of inventory because it usually orders these books from it distributors. The company has grown to emerge as one of the largest retailing online companies as well as the largest e-commerce retailer globally. It avails goods such as books, clothing, toys, and electronics at competitive prices. Additionally, Amazon usually spends much of the earned cash in building more satisfying centers in order to accommodate more data and technology offerings. Walmart is among the largest e-commerce retailer on the internet, which provides Amazon with stiff competition. Walmart Continue reading...

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act is a law that relates to the treatment of computer information. The changes in technology and increased use of computers in every sector created the importance for the creation of this law. The economic changes and the previous legal rules did not address the issues that related to contracting. This law is only applicable where transactions that involve the use of a computer. It also covers agreements to generate, adjust, transmission of multimedia, electronic data, online information, databases and internet related transactions.
This law creates rules that govern the transactions that use computer information Continue reading...

Throughout history terrorism has been a part of the global society and along with the world globalization trends terrorism has also become more advanced and organized in its nature. Alongside the digital commerce has been born and today, it appears to be an inevitable part of the world’s daily life. In fact, globalization can be held accountable for both terrorism and digital commerce: first, it nurtured numerous intercultural tensions which in turn gave a rise to terrorism, facilitating the means and conditions; and second, together with the technology innovation it raised world’s commerce to new highs.On the Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper entails a business plan outline for an e-commerce business which will operate under the name Decca Galleria. The business entails the sale of various forms of artwork which include paintings, assorted furniture, and many other similar antique products. This entity will operate entirely as an online business, which will target both local and international customers in its operations. The business plan for this entity is highlighted in this paper, and it includes an in –depth analysis of the various components that will influence directly the success of the venture.
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E-commerce is a growing industry worldwide, with volumes and turnover increasing at an average rate of 20 % for 2014 according to eMarketer (2014 a) of this, Asia Pacific region is likely to show the strongest growth, with a jump of over 40 per cent from $384 Billion in 2013 to $585 Billion in 2014. By 2018, the Asia Pacific region will be the leading driver of e-commerce, accounting for 33.4 per cent of the total ecommerce trade of $2.356 trillion in 2018 (eMarketer, 2014b). The key drivers for growth in the Asia pacific region have been the Continue reading...

India’s Answer to Amazon

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Flipkart has grown to become India’s largest ecommerce retailer, with sales of over $2.4 billion and valuation of $7 billion in a period of seven years. The company is a replica of amazon, and has been expanding from books into other segments gradually, thanks to growing internet penetration in the country through mobile. By offering unique solutions such as cash on delivery to its clientele, the company has seen phenomenal growth. However, it now faces competition from Amazon which has entered India in 2013. The paper outlines the functioning of Flipkart and how it Continue reading...

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About Amazon.com 3
E-Commerce Solution Key Elements of Amazon.com 4
Technology Infrastructure 4
Datawarehouse and DataMining 6
Datamining to operational efficiency and acheiving sales goals 6
Network Security Threats in E-Commerce Applications 7
Controlling Network Security Threats in E-Commerce Applications 8
Payment Gateway 9
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Introduction
E-Commerce is a present day business methodology addressing various needs of organizations. It enables consumers and merchants to reduce costs and simultaneously improving on the quality of products and services. It enables high-speed service and delivery. E-Commerce is enabled with Continue reading...

Introduction

Wall-Mart Background
Wal-Mart Stores is an American company with its headquarters based in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is a retail chain store that specializes in a variety of merchandise with a philosophy of offering low prices in the market. It has stores across the United States and in Canada although it also operates its stores in other parts of the world that include China, India and Japan (Zook & Graham, 2006).
The operations of the company are run under the brand Walmart organized into three basic operational divisions majorly; Walmart stores, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. Its operations are conducted Continue reading...

After-Sales Services

Introduction
After completing a transaction with a client, some clients may not be satisfied with their looks according to their desires and expectations. Although these case are not as many as cases where customers are completely satisfied, they are frequent and therefore the UMUC management takes the issues with the seriousness it deserves. The process of re-working to completely undo or simply repair a client’s hairstyle disrupts the scheduling and timing of the services. Depending on the extent of the repair requested by the client, Myra insists on offering free after-services to her customer regardless of the time Continue reading...

Business Analysis:

Discuss the on-going competition between Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay. Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay are all participating in the business to business (B2B) and business to consumers (B2C) e-commerce industry. E-commerce is a method of doing business, which allows transactions to occur place over the internet via sites that links vendor, host and buyer over a network. Amazon and eBay have been business to business e-commerce competitors with their primary customers coming from the US market for the past few years of existence. The emergence of Alibaba, which is presently the world leader in B2B e-commerce, coming out of China, Continue reading...

E-commerce in Walmart

As the biggest retailer in the world, it appears that even e-commerce is in the same scale. With operations in many countries, the retailer uses e-commerce to offer access to premium products at low prices whenever, and wherever they are needed. E-commerce at Walmart is operated in a number of ways. For instance, Walmart has websites in over ten countries where it has operations. Through these websites, its customers can opt to have their products shipped off to a store near them or to their homes. Additionally, this allows online shopping through its website. Products are outlined on their Continue reading...

FedEx Corporation is a logistics provider, handling over millions of goods annually. It is one of the distinguished logistics company, with locations in most parts of the globe. The company rides on a culture of innovation and strategy aimed at fulfilling the needs of people. It is well established with a market share in ground services. Market share is a share of the market that particular brand controls (Cooper & Nakanishi, 1988). The market share has made the company record an impressive financial growth and rating due to an increase in ground services (FedEx profit Rises on Demand for Ground Continue reading...

- One of the qualifications that the team members should be looking includes understanding the business operation. There is a need to understand the business and how the organization works together to achieve the profits. The new members should understand the business processes that are common for many businesses and especially the ones that are commonly seen to be working for vitamin companies. Another qualification is communication skills which is an important component. This is because they will be required to talk to the system users as they get the requirements and understand the problems that the users have Continue reading...

Abstract

Effective development and deployment of e-commerce information systems largely defines the success of an organization and this is based on changing functional attributions of the technological platform in application. The current dynamism attributed by technology, globalization, modernization and internet has distributed the nature of e-commerce while also depicting the essence of developments and innovations. These factors are important for the various technologies which encompasses the utilization of respective components of e-commerce information systems. There are various components or ancillary technology elements based on e-commerce information systems and which are examined within the paradigm of newer technological platforms. Online retailers Continue reading...

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E-Commerce: An Overview
Electronic Commerce or E-commerce in accordance with Javalgi and Ramsey (2001) is all about speed, connectivity, and communicating and trading of commodities, services and data. Remarkably, there is no fixed definition of E-Commerce. Barnes-Vieyra and Claycomb (2001:13) states that electronic commerce is the application of the internet for the communication of data amongst the organizations and their trading associates, workforce, and the clients with the nonexistence of geographical and time limitations.
Within that outline, Chang and Ling (2003:34–45) identified the two major segments of electronic commerce as Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction to E-Commerce Literature Review 
E-commerce is the utilization of electronic means and technologies to conduct commerce (sale, purchase, transfer or exchange of products, services or information). It began in the year 1995, and since then e-commerce has been characterized by a steady growth in the United States from zero to £362 billion retail, travel and media business and a £4.1 trillion business-to-business juggernaut. It is bringing out enormous changes in business firms, markets and consumer behaviour (Awad, 2002, p. 25).
1.1 Success of E-commerce/e-tailing
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Introduction

The Brooklyn Shop is needs a requirement specification document for their e-commerce website. The document will covers all aspect which will solve the problems identified. The document will focus on the key issues and should also comply with the international standards of developing e-commerce system. The requirement specification will particularly focus on functional, non-functional and other system requirements that are relevant to Brooklyn Shop business.
The document gives a detailed description of functional and non-functional requirement for Brooklyn Shop’s integrated web-based system’s which will be implemented in a forth night. This document is to act as a Continue reading...

eCommerce and eBusiness
For common people, eCommerce and eBusiness may mean only one thing but technically speaking, these two terms have different meanings. Although, both of these concepts utilizes electronic medium of transactions, the way they are used are two different things. eCommerce refers to the transactions that can be done online. This includes the buying and selling of goods and services and all the processes that are involve with it like the marketing or taking orders and procurement of raw materials. eCommerce can be done either through vertical integration, cross-business integration or technology integration. (Bartels, 2000) eBusiness on Continue reading...

Introduction

Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) refers to the buying and selling of goods and services through electronic means and primarily through the internet. It is a means of trading that has gained massive popularity due to expansion of technology. Globalization, which is characterized by increased human interactions, has prompted e-commerce as people seek versatile means of trading (Primobraga, 542). Some of the technologies involved in e-commerce include electronic funds transfers, internet marketing, mobile money transfers, internet based computer-to-computer trading companies such as e-bay, Olx among others, inventory management systems, online transaction processing, supply chain management, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) among many Continue reading...

Arguably, advancement of technology has affected the world in various ways. It is worth noting that e-commerce has made the global business activities very dynamic. As a matter of fact, the new technologies continue to shape the e-commerce and other various activities in the world. Electronic commerce is one of the common ways of undertaking business transactions today. The impacts of electronic commerce are far much reaching, and continue to cause changes in the world of business. The e-commerce is a realistic business experience and a crucial aspect of modernization and globalization. The business world is becoming very competitive, Continue reading...

- What are traditional myths about electronic commerce?
There are several myths about electronic commerce such as; before electronic commerce growth, phones were believed to be for making a call only, telephone lines were laid down in town. In 1990’s websites were used to search information when doing research for academician, people didn’t use it for other purposes. Companies compete with their competitors through marketing in town for their products to be sold at large number since customers were believed to buy these marketed products. There were no forums for discussion of products with customers since it Continue reading...

Introduction

Companies and individuals electronically link up together for a purpose. Millions of organizations and individuals have internet access in their place of work and at homes. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has grown rapidly with a great impact to the society where people are able to transact business anytime and from anywhere at an acceptable cost. This essay will define definition of electronic commerce and identify its subsets. The essay paper will also discuss three key challenges to electronic commerce.
According to , electronic commerce is a tool to address desires of organization and individuals by enabling delivery of information services in Continue reading...

Ans 11: Electronic eCommerce involves consumers and businesses paying to purchase physical goods, information, or services that are posted or advertised online.
Ans 12: The Payment Card Industry security standard spells out measures and security procedures to safeguard the card issuer, the cardholder, and the merchant.
Ans 13: The most successful e-commerce solutions must be designed to be highly scalable so that they can be upgraded to meet unexpected user traffic.

Ans 14: Digital Certificates create a trust chain throughout the transaction, verifying both the purchaser and supplier identities.

Ans 15: The two most widely used Web server software packages are Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft Internet Information Services.
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Electronic Commerce is the buying and selling of goods, data or services from one person to another without the use of traditional paper or documents. The transaction is done online, through applications that rely on the internet. These applications include email, instant messaging, shopping carts, FTP, web services, and much more. Although e-commerce now relies on the internet, its origin was way before the internet made its debut. Then, e-commerce was more dependent on networks like EDI and EFT.
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Introduction

In existing period of time, due to the increasing intervention of technology in business practices, the norms and trends of business operations have been changed quite significantly. Nowadays, internet has become one of the major aspects of business practices undertaken by business organizations. The presented paper is directed to reveal some crucial information regarding e-commerce business operations and different measures undertaken by small scale business organizations for preventing risks associated with their e-commence related business activities.

Advantage and disadvantages of undertaking small business through online measures

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1) Come up with a list of at least 10 ideas to replace current shipping technologies
- Use of centralized inventory to implement global logistic strategies
- Improved ship hull design with better communication gadgets
- Automated clearance of materials in the port
- Utilizing the newest weather and ocean current information (voyage optimization)
- Use of the real time tracking through the use of GPS for easier location of ships and determine arrival time accurately
- Selective catalytic reduction by using a catalytic converter that screens out almost 95% of Nitrogen Oxide emissions.
- Charter renegotiation
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Introduction

Pier 1 is North America’s largest specialty retailer and original global importer of unique furnishings with annual sales of over $1.5 billion (Dishman, 2012). It is has stores in more than 1,000 locations, including the United States, the U.K, among other countries and territories. Pier 1 eliminated its e-commerce in 2007 and all its sales came from in-store (Dishman, 2012). The company’s total marketing investment accounts for 4-5% of sales, allocated across shared mail, direct mail, TV, newspaper, and online (Dishman, 2012). The company believes that increasing the amount on paid search advertising will result in Continue reading...

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Automated Systems, Efficiency and E-commerce Applications
Automation has brought a new dimension to the process in the industry sector. The business and the factories have started using automated systems and they could be able to decrease the amount of labor hours in the production by using computerized systems. Computerized systems brings new advantages to the producers and the business using it; 1) Productivity increase, 2) Ensuring a level of quality in goods and services, 3) Ensuring a consistency in production processes of products and goods, 4) Decrease in the costs of labor. However, there are some disadvantages in using Continue reading...

Executive Summary

This is a case of Akamai Technologies, a company that is concerned with making improvements in the current internet technologies and infrastructures. The main problem in the case was the fact that the current internet infrastructures offer limited services to a lot of bandwidth hungry users and so there are fears that in about the next succeeding years, the bandwidth demand may well surpass the bandwidth supply, which would definitely be a bad thing especially for heavy users and businessmen that are dependent on the internet for e-commerce purposes. Possible solutions include improving the capacity of the internet infrastructures Continue reading...

This document outlines the major details that will be required for the development of an e-commerce application for a company that deals in computer accessories. The management of the business enterprise has decided to increase their sales effort to cater for the online market through selling of their products via the internet. In this regard, an online shopping cart will be designed so that the business can achieve its specified objectives. The application will be able to display items currently on sale to the customers, provide means of selecting the item(s) that customers want to buy, and a Continue reading...

Introduction

When the concept of Internet and later the idea of ecommerce was introduced most companies and market experts believed that these technologies were only meant for the big companies already established with thousands of customers around the world. Several threats and controversies were associated with ecommerce as well that stopped most of the medium scale or small scale businesses to jeopardize their privacy and their finances and stayed away from Internet enabled technologies.
However in the past 10-15 years the trends in adoption of Internet and ecommerce have changed significantly. Today most small businesses prefer utilizing the internet based Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper provides a description of the problem that the researcher intends to address, particularly about how risks can be managed in e-businesses. It also provides an annotated bibliography of three sources that will enable the researcher to provide answers to this problem. In particular, these sources discuss the importance of consumer trust in ensuring the success of online businesses; what the consumers’ concerns are; and how these risks can be managed. As well, a comparison and contrast of these three sources is made in order to show their relevance in relation to the research problem.

Statement of the Research Problem

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Research shows that almost 70% of all shoppers conduct their research online before they go for the actual shopping. This trend has an advantage to savvy shoppers since they have the opportunity to compare products and services before they reach a conclusion. Even in scenarios where shoppers are recommended to a particular enterprise, they are still curious to conduct online research and price comparison before the final transaction. By doing so, online shoppers equip themselves with the best outlets in terms of price, quality and viewer reviews.
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As a business owner, if I had limited resources in e-commerce, I would focus on payment processing. Payment processing has to do with the service and process that facilitates payment transactions in a business. These payment transactions can be between the shoppers and business or the business and its suppliers. Payment processing usually involves a system of computer applications and processes that authenticate and approve payment transactions between all the parties involved in a business transaction. I would focus on payment processing because payments are crucial for the success of any business. Payment transactions ensure that a business remains Continue reading...

Executive summary

Technology is an ever-advancing concept. As it changes, many things change along with it. One of those things that do not remain constant when technology changes, is business. The way in which business is done is influenced largely by changes in technology. Notably, business is now a global idea. Even the small and medium sized corporations are going to the international scene with an aim of expanding their market and accessing new ideas on the global scene. This has given birth to a concept that is becoming a household name in any countries – ecommerce. Ecommerce is a way of Continue reading...

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E-commerce sites refer to the online applications that deal with marketing of goods and services with an aim of reaching the majority all over the world. Therefore, in doing so, they use emails, as a marketing strategy, to reach people informing them of the available products and services in the market, new arrivals, available deals, and products on sale or offered at discounts.
I signed up on eBay, Nokia and OLX e-commerce sites previously, and I have been receiving frequent emails informing me of the available products they are offering, products offered at discounts and new Continue reading...

I searched the keyword “women’s dresses” on Google AdWords and Google Insights. The data I got from the search was very useful for marketing on Google
First, I tried Google AdWords Tool. I typed “women’s dresses” and clicked search button to see what I could get. The top three results are women’s dresses, women dresses online and tall women’s dresses. The total search volume for the 3 keywords is 723,400. I got the conclusion that an e-commerce website with high rankings for these 3 keywords can get very valuable traffic.
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I have had a lifelong interest in the field of information technology and this has had a tremendous influence on my academic and career choices. Having attained dual Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Mathematics, I have been employed in the IT industry for over 18 months. In addition, I own and run an ecommerce site that is the mainstay of my ambitions. Attending Carnegie Mellon’s MSIT eBusiness program will be a major step in fulfilling the goals that I have set for my future in the IT industry.
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Electronic commerce, popularly e-commerce refers to the use of the internet as a platform for buying and selling of products and services (Richardson 142).Though fairly recent, the rapid growth of e-commerce has extensively transformed the mode of doing business and new systems such as online marketing, electronic money transfer and processing of online transactions have emerged. However, though the system has numerous advantages, it also has its shortcomings. Below are some of the strengths and weaknesses of this system of operation that must be considered by the Steven Perry Company.
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