Developing & Deploying System - Planning Online Business, E-Commerce | E-Commerce - B Com PDF Download

Developing and Deploying the System

For implementing electronic commerce system:

• Starts with organizing a project team i.e. first define the roles and responsibilities of senior management, web champion, webmaster etc

• Undertake a few pilot projects. Jt will help to discover problems early

• Finally implement electronic commerce i.e.

• Redesigning existing business processes

• Back-end processes must be automated as much as possible

• Company must set up workflow applications by integrating electronic commerce into existing accounting and Financial back-ends

Web Content Design

There are three options for choosing the right software solution for your site:

1.  Build your own software

2.  Purchase a commercial software product

3.  Rent from a Web host

 Various web content design considerations are:

• The services wanted

• How much your company can contribute to the site, from manpower to electronic content

• The time to design your site

• The time to create and program your site

• Extra fees for software development

• Fees for off-the-shelf applications tools

• The size of the site

• The amount of traffic the site generates Vs. flat rate

• Training requirements

• Installation and server maintenance

• Programming

• On corporate site hosting Vs. off-site

• Secure Server for financial transactions

• Your bandwidth needs

• Your server capacity needs

• Location of your server at the Web company or ISP company location

Web Hosting

Web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that provides individuals, organizations and users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center.

Types

• Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is extremely limited when compared to paid hosting.

• Shared web hosting service: one’s Web site is placed on the same server as several hundred other sites. These are somewhat restricted to what can be done.

• Dedicated web hosting service: involves getting your own web server with full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows)

• Colocation web hosting service: provides physical space that your server takes up and the hosting company takes care about bandwidth/data center.

• Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves.

• File hosting service: is a kind of web hosting service optimized for hosting large files.

• Clustered hosting: A clustered hosting platform is data-driven, which means that no human interaction is needed to provision a new account to the platform.