SYLLABUS

UNIT-I

Introduction – meaning, nature, concepts, advantages and reasons for transacting online, categories of e-commerce; planning online business: nature and dynamics of the internet, pure online vs. brick and click business, assessing requirement for an online business, designing, developing and deploying the system, one to one enterprise.

UNIT-II

Technology for online business – internet, IT infrastructure; middleware contents: text and integrating e-business applications; mechanism of making payment through internet: online payment mechanism, electronic payment systems, payment gateways, visitors to website, tools for promoting website; plastic money: debit card, credit card; laws relating to online transactions.

UNIT-III

Applications in e-commerce – e-commerce applications in manufacturing, wholesale, retail and service sector.

UNIT-IV

Virtual existence – concepts, working, advantages and pitfalls of virtual organizations, workface, work zone and workspace and staff less organization; designing on E-commerce model for a middle level organization: the conceptual design, giving description of its transaction handling, infrastructure and resources required and system flow chart; security in e-commerce: digital signatures, network security, data encryption secret keys, data encryption.