Banner Exchange - E-Commerce - Lecture Slides, Slides of Fundamentals of E-Commerce

Students of Communication, study E-Commerce as an auxiliary subject. these are the key points discussed in these Lecture Slides of E-Commerce : Big Picture, Pathways, Debt, Optimal, Capital, Enhanced, Cost, Present, Sector, Cycle

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Banner exchange sites
• Banner exchange sites aid online store promotion.
• Banner exchange agreements are made between
sites that sign up for the service.
• The BES organizes the exchanges, enforces banner
exchange rules, collects statistics about customers,
and rotates ads on the sites.
A click through count is the number of visitors that
a banner produces at a site.
• Examples: Banner Exchange, Exchange-it,
SmartClicks
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Banner exchange sites

  • Banner exchange sites aid online store promotion.• Banner exchange agreements are made between

sites that sign up for the service.

  • The BES organizes the exchanges, enforces banner

exchange rules, collects statistics about customers,and rotates ads on the sites.

  • A click through count is the number of visitors that

a banner produces at a site.

  • Examples:

Banner Exchange

,^ Exchange-it

SmartClicks

Full-service mall-style hosting

Full-service hosting sites provide:

  • High-quality tools• Storefront templates• An easy-to-use interface• Quick Web page creation and maintenance• No required banner advertising In exchange these sites may charge: - One-time set up fees• Monthly fees• A percentage of each transaction• A fixed amount per each transaction

Midrange packages

Distinction from basic e-commerce packages:• The merchant has explicit control over

  • Merchandising choices– Site layout– Internal architecture– Remote and local management options
    • Other differences include price, capability,

database connectivity, software portability,software customization tools, computerexpertise required of the merchant.

Features

  • Prices range from $2000 to $9000.• Hosted on the merchant’s server.• Typically has connectivity with complex database

systems and stores catalog information.

  • Several provide connections (“hooks”) into existing

inventory and ERP systems.

  • Highly customizable• Requires part-time or full-time programming talent.• Examples:

INTERSHOP efinity

,^ WebSphere Commerce

Suite

Features

  • Good tools for linking supply and purchasing.• Can interact with the inventory system to make

the proper adjustments to stock, issue purchaseorders, and generate accounting entries.

  • Example: Wal-Mart
    • Allows several suppliers to make decisions

about resupplying

  • Results in cost savings in inventory
    • Examples:

WebSphere Commerce Suite

,^ Netscape

CommerceXpert

Web platform choices

  • Hardware, operating system, and application server

software must be considered together since eachaffects the other.

  • Whatever your choice you must ensure that the

server hardware is scalable, meaning that it can beupgraded or a new server added as necessary.

  • Other needs, such as a database server, should be

handled by separate hardware. Database productshave large processing needs.

Benchmarking

-^ Benchmarking

is testing used to compare the

performance of hardware and software.

  • Results measure the performance of aspects such

as the OS, software, network speed, CPU speed.

  • There are several Web benchmarking programs.

For examples see Figure 3-4 on page 87.

  • Anyone considering buying a server for a heavy

traffic situation or wanting to make changes toan existing system should consider benchmarks.