e-Business Part 2: Building the Infrastructure

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Summary: e-Business Part 2: Building the Infrastructure
Review: Course Overview
The second course in the e-Business curriculum focuses on technical infrastructure needed to support an e-Business initiative. It focuses on the sub-application level, examining network and protocol options and requirements. It introduces some of the major players in the market and business drivers that could affect an organization's choices.

Learn To

Identify the stages in the development of the Internet.
Identify Internet applications.
Identify Internet products and services that can be used in business
Identify the considerations for planning Web architectures in an e-Business.
Identify the main hardware platforms.
Match each major operating system with its key characteristic.
Identify business standards associated with e-Business.
Identify the features of electronic data interchange.
Identify the features of modern data-mapping.
Identify standards for integrated purchasing.
Sequence the stages in a typical online transaction.
Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) industry standards.

Audience
The target audience is those individuals tasked with planning/implementing e-Business strategies within an organization (primarily technical and business managers, as opposed to programmers, network engineers, etc.). Course prerequisites are an understanding of business principles and knowledge of how to use a browser.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs

Language Options
US English

Total Learning Time
6 to 8 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: Internet Architecture 1 - 2 hours

Identify the stages in the development of the Internet.
Identify Internet applications.
Identify Internet products and services that can be used in business.
Identify current e-Business developments in XML and WAP.
Identify global structures of the Internet.
Identify the features of Internet backbone providers.
Identify Internet routing issues.
Identify the features of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
Identify the features of point-to-point protocol (PPP).
Identify networking protocols for local area networks (LANs).
Identify Internet Protocol (IP) addressing issues.
Identify the features of Internet Protocol version 6.
Identify the features of the Domain Name System (DNS).
Identify the features of a dynamic Domain Name System (DNS).

Unit 2: Technology Options 1 - 2 hours

Identify the considerations for planning Web architectures in an e-Business.
Identify the main hardware platforms.
Match each major operating system with its key characteristic.
Identify the features of service providers.
Identify the features of wide-band telecommunication connections.
Identify the features of local connection infrastructure.
Identify the features of platform infrastructure.
Identify growth issues in an e-Business environment.
Identify the range of services used in an e-Business environment.
Identify the costs associated with establishing an e-Business site.

Unit 3: Software Component Standards 2 hours

Identify business standards associated with e-Business.
Identify the features of electronic data interchange.
Identify the features of modern data-mapping.
Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) data transformation types.
Identify common data access methods recommended for use in an e-Business environment.
Identify the features of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
Identify remote data access techniques.
Identify basic data transfer methods.
Identify the leading distributed-object architectures.
Identify features of basic security protocols.
Identify the features of mail extension security.
Identify public key security standards.

Unit 4: Application Integrations 2 hours

Identify standards for integrated purchasing.
Sequence the stages in a typical online transaction.
Identify Extensible Markup Language (XML) industry standards.
Identify the key functions of supply chain management.
Identify the benefits of Value-Added Networks (VANs).
Identify the benefits of virtual private networks.
Identify legacy systems in an e-Business environment.