Evaluating e-Commerce Options

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Summary: Evaluating e-Commerce Options
Review: Course Overview
This course is intended for students who wish to consider some of the costs as well as the potential benefits of e-commerce. A survey of e-commerce strategies and an overview containing implementation descriptions will help the student better understand the basis of costs associated with e-commerce.

Learn To

The Market Environment.
External Factors.
Core Developer Technologies.
Programming Paradigms.

Audience
This course is intended for Managers and technical staff who are in a position to provide e-commerce recommendations to executives. This course will therefore assist learners in evaluating the relevance of e-commerce to their business goals.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

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

Language Options
Japanese, US English

Total Learning Time
6 to 8 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: The Market Environment 1 - 2 hours

Identify the factors to consider when developing and marketing an e-commerce business strategy.
Identify the benefits of implementing an e-commerce business strategy.
Identify the role of EDI in business-to-business e-commerce.

Unit 2: External Factors 1 - 2 hours

Identify the capabilities of search engines.
Identify optimal search techniques.
Identify the guidelines for registering an e-commerce Web site.
Identify bandwidth options.
Identify bandwidth considerations for an e-commerce site.
Identify the capabilities of browsers.
Identify methods of maximizing customer access to an e-commerce site.
Identify the features of the SET payment standard.
Identify the role of certification in e-commerce.
Identify e-commerce transaction security options.
Identify transnational issues affecting e-commerce.
Identify copyright issues affecting e-commerce.
Identify taxation issues affecting e-commerce.

Unit 3: Core Development Technologies 2 hours

Classify Web server platform options.
Identify the features of operating system platforms.
Classify e-commerce Web servers.
Identify the factors involved in creating a shopping cart for an e-commerce Web site.
Identify the role of cookies in tracking customer activity.
Identify the features of the HTML language.
Identify the features of DHTML.
Compare SGML with XML.
Identify the features of the Common Gateway Interface.
Identify the features of server-side include.
Identify the features of Active Server.

Unit 4: Programming Paradigms 2 hours

Identify the issues involved in implementing an e-commerce solution.
Identify the characteristics of Web site tactical integration.
Identify the issues involved in managing a Web site.
Identify the constraints of HTML.
Identify the guidelines for creating a VBScript to communicate with the customer.
Compare the features of Java and Java applets.
Identify the differences between programming and scripting languages.
Identify the characteristics of available programming languages for your Web site environment.
Identify the characteristics of PERL.
Identify which features of Visual Basic make it a suitable server language for e-commerce.
Identify which features of Java make it a suitable server language for e-commerce.
Identify which features of C/C++ make them suitable server languages for e-commerce.