Technologies for Electronic Commerce and EBusiness

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Technologies for Electronic Commerce and EBusiness

• Walt Scacchi, Ph.D.
• FEMBA 290
• Winter 2003

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Overview

• Introductions
• Course audience and demographics
• Administrative matters
• Foundational concepts
• Course topics
• Questions
• Topic 1 Overview of EC and EB

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Introductions

• Instructor Dr. Walt Scacchi
• Teaching assistant(s)
• none
• Administrative support
• Natasha Shuqum

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Course audience and demographics what are your
career interests?

• Executive (Corporate Officer, Vice President,
  Division Director, etc.)?
• Mid-Career Manager (not an IT department
  manager)?
• IT Consultant ?
• Entrepreneur?
• Academic Scholar?
• Other?

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Administrative matters

• Office, office hours and contact
• ICS2-242
• Tuesday 230-430pm, and by appointment
• Office 949-824-4130
• Email Wscacchi_at_uci.edu
• Web http//www.ics.uci.edu/wscacchi

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Administrative matters

• Projects and Exams
• Team project, final presentation, deliverables
• Mid-term exam
• Assignments and Discussion
• Assigned articles and case studies
• Web site case studies
• Web-based business intelligence gathering

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Administrative matters

• Attendance and Participation
• Both count!

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Administrative matters

• Grading policy
• Final project 50
• Mid-term exam 20
• Assignments and discussion 20
• Attendance 10
• Project team formation
• Team size 3-5 people
• Start building your team today!

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Administrative matters

• Communicating course material
• Am I explaining course materials so that you
  understand? If not, you must let me know.
• Course preparation
• All course materials (e.g., lecture notes,
  readings, assignments) will be posted on the Web
• Discussion
• Assignments or team project work each week

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Administrative matters

• Access
• See my Office hours and TBD hours contact me!
• Progress (Grades)
• Scheduled assignments and team project work
• Emphasis of conceptual understanding
• 50 lecture and course work on concepts for
  technologies for EC/EB
• 50 work on putting these concepts into practice,
  via the team project.

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Administrative matters

• Rigor iterative presentation and exploration
• Formal vs. informal
• Two iteration cycles
• Overall value of course to you
• You will learn fundamental concepts of
  technologies for EC/EB
• You define your team project to best address your
  professional goals
• You should ask questions about topical issues

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Course matters -- Reading Materials

• Required http//www.ics.uci.edu/wscacchi/Tech-EC
  /
• Textbooks
• (REQUIRED) Davis Benamati, E-Commerce Basics
  Technology Foundations and E-Business
  Applications, Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, 2003
  (Amazon info) available at UCI Bookstore
• (Recommended) Kalakota and Robinson, e-Business
  2.0, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA,
  2000, (Amazon info) available at UCI Bookstore

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Foundational concepts

• EC and EB technologies, applications, and
  services
• EC/EB Infrastructure (Internet, Web)
• Technology and Business Planning for EC and EB
• Problems and Protections for EC and EB
• Open source software for EC and EB
• Learn by Doing (team projects) and Shared
  Experience (class discussions)

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Course topics

• Overview of EC and EB
• EC/EB Infrastructure
• World Wide Web and Web Information Systems
• The business of EC and EB
• Consumer-focused EC

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Course topics

• EBusiness and Corporate Intranets
• B2B ECommerce and EC Grids
• Cybercrime
• Security and Privacy
• Future (Applications) of EC and EB

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Questions?

• What do you want to learn or take away from this
  course?
• What are your criteria of success?
• What do you want me to do to help you achieve
  your success?
• What about the team project?
• Others?