E-Business and E-Commerce Infrastructure

Chaudhury's "E-Business and E-Commerce Infrastructure: Technologies Supporting the E-Business Initiative" serves as a comprehensive primer to both traditional and emerging E-Commerce technologies. Using the Chaudhury text, students with no prior technical knowledge will be able to grasp complex topics such as networking, Internet security, Web languages, and other important subjects in a way that illustrates their use through case studies and practice through completing Web projects. 

 Chapter 1 E-Commerce and E-Business * A Business Vignette * What is E-Commerce? * Types of E-Commerce * Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce * Business-to-Business E-Commerce * E-BusinessChapter 2 Networking Fundamentals * A Technical Vignette * Digital and Analog * Conversion of Analog to Digital * Modulation * Multiplexing * Data CompressionChapter 3 Communication Protocols for E-Business * A Technical Vignette * What is a Protocol? * The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model * The Internet * The Internet Protocol SuiteChapter 4 Network Security and E-Commerce * A Technical Vignette * Business Impact of Faulty Security * Security Threats * Internet Security Requirements (Secrecy, Integrity, Availibility) * Security Policy Development * Security MeasuresChapter 5 Authentication, Encryption, Digital Payments, and Digital Money * A Technical Vignette * Encryption * Methods of Encrypting Data * Confidentiality * Authentication * Integrity * Auditing * Non Repudiation * Digital certificates- Key Management Alternative * E-mail SecurityChapter 6 Server Platforms in E-Commerce * Business Transformation * Overview of Computing Platforms * E-Commerce ComponentsChapter 7 Language for the Web: HTML, XML, and Beyond * A Technical Vignette * The Origins of Web Languages: SGML * HTML * Advanced HTML and DHTML * CSS * PDFChapter 8 Searching Mechanisms * A Technical Vignette * Need for Search Engines * History of Search Mechanisms * How Do Search Engines Work? * Common Search Features * Common Display FeaturesChapter 9 Software Agents for E-Commerce * A Technical Vignette * What Are Software Agents? * Logic of Agent Behavior * Types of Agents * Information Agents * E-commerce AgentsChapter 10 Multimedia and Web-casting on the Web * A Technical Vignette * Multimedia * Multimedia Standards and ProtocolChapter 11 Packaged Solutions for E-Business * A Technical Vignette * A Coordination Theory Framework * Evolution of ERP Systems * Why ERP Systems? * Logic of ERP Systems * Supply Chain Management * IT Aspects of Supply Chain Management * Customer Relationship Management