Description
The course explores the systems, opportunities, challenges and strategies involved in successfully developing and maintaining electronic business. Issues covered include infrastructure design, server management, implementation, security, e-business strategy and marketing. It provides an overview of the key technologies for electronic commerce on the Internet, and reviews current trends and extensions to the technology of the World Wide Web. Electronic payment systems and related issues pertaining to authentication, security and privacy are covered. Organizational applications are explored, and the different business models underlying various types of business-consumer, business-business and intra-organizational commerce applications are analyzed. Students are also introduced to the key legal, ethical and policy issues underlying the use of electronic commerce.