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EBUSINESS

Introduction

 Ebusiness is the conducting of business on the Internet  Ebusiness and Ecommerce are not the same

 Issues

 Disruptive technology  Evolution of the Internet  Accessing Internet information  Providing Internet information

Disruptive Technology (2)

 The Web and online travel reservations disrupted travel agents

 Online stock trading disrupted the full-service stock broker

 Nobody carries change in a casino

Sustaining Technology

 Using technology to improve a product or service  Faster and larger hard drives  Improvements in your bank’s Web site  Faster wireless

The Internet (1)

 As mentioned in the “history lesson”

 The Internet is a global network using TCP/IP as it’s base protocol

 The Internet provides a range of services including the World Wide Web  It was originally text based  There was no search engine until Jerry Yang and David Filo created YAHOO (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) docsity.com

The Internet (2)

 Probably one of the most disruptive technologies affecting business  It has flattened the world  If it’s repeatable, it can be done anywhere

My Summary of the Net

 The Internet allows us to buy and sell almost any good or service anywhere in the world at any time

The Internet (Selected Industries)

 Travel

 Entertainment

 Electronics

 Financial services

 Retail

 Automobiles

 Education and training

Web 3.

 With a large part of the world’s data out there, how to we find and catalog it?

 A universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange (Tim Berners-Lee)  Data driven  Semantic  SOA and Web Services

The Data Driven Web

 Much of the Web’s data is not well structured or indexed  We have some metadata  We have links  We try to search keywords

 The data driven Web will add structure to that data

Service-oriented Architecture

 Service-oriented architecture views a business as a group of repeatable and linked processes  Each repeatable process becomes a service or part of a bigger service  More in Chapter 5

 Web services

 http://www.fedex.com/us/developer/pr oduct/basics.html

The Internet

(Variations on a Theme)

 Intranets

 Uses Internet protocols to create a “private” organizational Internet

 Extranets

 Uses Internet protocols to create a virtual Internet between customers and suppliers

Providing Internet-based Services

 Internet Service Providers

 Online Service Providers

 Application Service Providers

Internet Service Providers

 Simply put – provides a pipe to the Internet  DSL / Cable modems / etc…  AT&T, Earthlink  There are thousands of these

 Some ISPs add additional value  Web hosting  Database servers