Defining Internet Commerce and its strategic issues, business issues technology issues, and relevance. Giving examples of elements of business on the internet to include: the commerce value chain, Internet Business strategies, and conflicting goals and requirements. Illustrating and assessing the architecture of the Internet and the World Wide Web that compose a foundation for Internet commerce. Synthesizing system design with the needs of Internet commerce to include: managing content, security, and transactional processing. Describing the theory and technologies used in enterprise application integration, and hypothesize on the future of Internet commerce based on historical and consistent trends in business.
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The University College of Denver, Guided by : Dr. Samuel Conn, Affiliate Professor July 2007
The inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks about the history of how Semantic web came to be. The document provides a plan for how data on the Web and applications would work together to create a homogeneous set of data on the Web. Semantic web will redefine Internet business strategies by changing how data is placed on the Web.
Brooks, Charlotte. Clem Leung, Aslam Mirza and Curtis Neal. “IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 1 Planning Guide.” IBM, RedBooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246547.pdf (accessed Aug 9, 2007)
A very extensive guide from IBM that presents recent methodologies in strategic business continuity planning. Further more, guidelines for selection and step by stop construction workshops are presented to support businesses in building their ecommerce sites. The guide covers disaster recover, planning and evolution. It also presents new challenges to business to consider such as reliability, scalability, and management of multiple sites.
Connolly, Thomas and Carolyn Begg. Database Systems: A practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management. Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited, 2005.
The book, from two with extensive experience in database design in the industry, presents good design strategies for database systems. The internet commerce is based on transactions that require a good sound database backbone to support the complex, distributed, and object-oriented architecture of Internet business applications. The book also refers to the importance of data recovery as part of the Internet business contingency plan. The book is for technical database administrators and professionals and serves as a reference to introduce the link between the web and databases and how web services and other technologies interacts with database management systems.
Davies, A.J. Summers, Caroline, and Donna Black. “Disparities between B2B and B2c Commerce for SMEs.” Cardiff University, eCommerce Innovation Centre & Cardiff Business Technology Centre. http://www.ecommerce.ac.uk/pdf/2003echallenges.pdf (accessed Jun 26 ,2007)
The research paper, by two departments at the Cardiff University, explores the differences and the diversities that exist among businesses and how they implement business to consumer (B2C) and transactions for business-to-business (B2B). The research highlights experiences from different companies, and provides guidance to support enterprises better serve their online business considering their specific requirements. The 8 paper document is well referenced and provides the actual results of the survey that supported the research findings.
Erfan, Farnz. “Maintain federated data using WebSphere Information Integrator autonomic monitoring tools.” IBM, Developer Works. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0505erfan/index.html (accessed Aug 11, 2007)
IBM presents its application websphere as a tool to maintain a consistent federated system. The article explains how a federated system correlates with the database, users, and other data resources. The information is detailed enough to benefit IT professionals and easy to be understood by businesses. It is important for companies establishing businesses online to understand how network sites work and what applications are implemented.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, ?'Wait and hope'. 
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The inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks about the history of how Semantic web came to be. The document provides a plan for how data on the Web and applications would work together to create a homogeneous set of data on the Web. Semantic web will redefine Internet business strategies by changing how data is placed on the Web.
