Designing Systems for Internet Commerce
- By G. Winfield Treese, Lawrence C. Stewart
- Published Apr 27, 1998 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Copyright 1998
- Dimensions: 7-3/8x9-1/4
- Pages: 400
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-57167-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-57167-7
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Internet commerce (poised to revolutionize the way we do business) is quickly becoming a reality, with an exploding number of Internet business sites now being deployed. If you are thinking about taking the Internet commerce plunge, read this book.
Written by two of the most experienced practitioners in this burgeoning field, Designing Systems for Internet Commerce will guide you through the business and technical considerations of building fully functioning, secure, and financially successful Internet commerce systems.
Both comprehensive and practical, this book explains the fundamental principles of system design, reveals best design practices, and offers reality-based advice on implementation. It explores the common issues and critical questions to ask when planning a system for Internet commerce. In addition, it describes the key technologies relevant to electronic commerce and explains how to apply them using numerous examples.
The authors' special focus is problem solving: They discuss the many potential risks, challenges, and stumbling blocks of Internet commerce systems and how best to deal with them. This information will enable you to anticipate and solve the problems you are likely to face, helping you implement an Internet commerce system that effectively serves the needs of your organization and its customers.
You will also find comprehensive coverage of:
- Consumer retail, business-to-business, and information commerce business models
- The critical issue of privacy versus merchandising
- Legal issues, such as taxation, copyright, and digital signatures
- Essential cryptography and security standards and methods
- Functional architecture and implementation strategies, such as the use of outsourcing, custom development, and off-the-shelf products
- The technological building blocks of e-commerce, including content transport technologies, CGI, Java™, ActiveX™, sessions and cookies, CORBA, SET, and COM
- Proven strategies for system design
- Creating and managing content
- Payment systems and transaction processing
In addition, the authors walk you through a full-fledged Internet commerce system design to illustrate all of these strategies, technologies, and functions in action. Moreover, the book demonstrates how to separate content from transactions, and offers an example of a scalable transaction engine.
Designing Systems for Internet Commerce will give you an understanding of how to bridge the gap between your vision of Internet commerce and the reality of attaining that vision with the technologies available today.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Architecture is the central theme, By Michael Darmody (mdarmody@answerthink.com) (San Diego, California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing Systems for Internet Commerce (Paperback)
The book is geared for IT professionals. This still is the only book that views Internet solutions in a decomposable architectural perspective. It contains a good chapter on the value chain, payment systems and transaction processing. The graphics are clear and reusable. It had a little too much overview material on related topics and not enough alternatives to the authors' company solutions. Great book for budding technical architects. More books are needed that address lessons learned from real architects. This fills that gap.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Too much philosophy, not enough content,
By A Customer
This review is from: Designing Systems for Internet Commerce (Paperback)
The authors are clearly qualified and knowledgeable, but the book suffers from being a dry and largely superficial overview of almost every concept related to computers, IP networking, telecommunication and e-commerce. Little space is devoted to real-world examples, illustrations of products and promise of specific technologies in e-commerce.The book is probably written to those who need a some "corridor competence" to talk about these matters, but there's little technical "meat" to be found here.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
10% useful content, 90% filler, By
This review is from: Designing Systems for Internet Commerce (Paperback)
This book feels to me like the authors came from a teaching background, had a few original ideas about how to cover certain broad topics in their own personal way, and then went overboard saying the same things over and over again as if paid by the word.I had to buy this book because it was required for a class at Regis University Online. I would have preferred to choose my own book. I started reading diligently and eventually came to the conclusion that the book was a waste of time. Even if the blithering was taken out and the useful information condensed, the book still wouldn't be saying very much. Here's an example from chapter 5, "Conflicting Goals and Requirements." The reader expects to learn how to balance the two. Instead, we get this (this is the chapter summary): "Whenever different participants in a system have different goals and requirements, there is a potential for conflict. This is particularly true in a new industry like Internet commerce, where... Read more |
Praise For Designing Systems for Internet Commerce
"... a useful book, especially for readers looking for a reference book covering the elements of electronic commerce." - Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books, http://www.ercb.com
"Designing Systems for Internet Commerce is a solid, comprehensive tour of the business and technology aspects of setting up a store and selling on the Internet. It's a good tutorial and a good source book." - Steve Crocker
"Designing Systems for Internet Commerce is a useful book, especially for readers looking for a reference book covering the elements of electronic commerce...executives and managers with some technical savvy could pick it up, turn to a section on most any aspect of electronic commerce they want to learn about, and get the information they need." - Curtis D. Frye, http://www.ercb.com
Preface
Acknowledgments
This book is an attempt to write down what we have learned about Internet Commerce so far. Much of our experience in this area is drawn from our association with Open Market, which began operations in April 1994, but we have applied many of the lessons learned about the Internet and about systems design during our earlier careers at Xerox, Digital Equipment, and MIT, as well as from our academic associations with MIT, Harvard, and Stanford University. We would like first to acknowlege the great contributions and support we have received in this endeavor from Shikhar Ghosh, Gary Eichhorn, Andy Payne, Peter Woon, and the rest of our colleagues at Open Market. In one way or another, everyone at Open Market has contributed to this work. The editorial team at Addison-Wesley has been outstanding, with our editor Karen Gettman, editorial assistant Mary Harrington, and the editor who inspired this work, Carol Long. We have been fortunate to have many insightful reviewers for early drafts of our manuscript. Our thanks to Russell Nelson, Nathaniel Borenstein, Marcus Ranum, Richard Smith, Brian Reistad, Dave Crocker, Ray Kaplan, Bruce Schneier, John Adams, John Romkey, Fred Avolio, Kurt Friedrich, Alex Mehlman, Paul Baier, Ian Reid, Jeff Bussgang, and the anonymous reviewers. Writing a book is a challenge not only for the authors, but for our families as well. To our wives, Marie and Catherine, and our daughters, Erica and Samantha, go our thanks and our love. We are truly blessed. Win TreeseCambridge, MA Larry Stewart
Burlington, MA
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Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
I. THE BUSINESS OF INTERNET COMMERCE.
II. THE TECHNOLOGY OF INTERNET COMMERCE.
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