Introduction to E-Business Technology

Course Objectives:

This course introduces the e-business technology and the use of computer techniques in updating business processes which is designed to improve performance and reduce costs.

Course Content:

• Introduction to e-business technology.
• The concept of e-commerce systems - challenges and possibilities.
• Mastering construction and building business systems.
• The use of information networks to activate the various levels of e-commerce.
• Basic concepts of marketing through networks and models for advertising and sales operations and procurement.
• Technical concept of e-customer.
• Information security and e-commerce.
• Work ethics and management of commercial relations and confidential communications.
• Models of electronic commerce: business to business, customer to business and customer to customer.
  Skills expected from this course:

Upon finishing this course, the student should:  

• Know the basics of e-commerce infrastructure.
• Identify electronic commercial techniques.
• Understand the affect of e-commerce on the business environment.
• Know the modern technology trends affecting electronic commerce such as the Internet and telecommunications.
• Know how to implement projects for electronic commerce applications, including technical and commercial components.

• Textbook:
  Weatland & Clark's, "Global Electronic Commerce: Theory & Case studies", MIT Press, Last Ed, ISBN 0262232057.
  Reference:
  W. Ford and M Baum, "Secure Electronic Commerce: Building the Infrastructurefor Digital Signature and Encryption", Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0130272760.