Designing Systems for Internet Commerce

Thanks to advances in Internet commerce, every enterprise—even the smallest home-based business—now has the power to create a global presence. Each day, more businesses are drawn to the promise of increased access to customers, combined with dramatic cost reductions. However, consumer expectations and demands seem to increase daily. The major challenge in building successful Internet commerce sites continues to be how to use Internet technology most effectively to deliver added value to customers.

Written by two of the leading authorities in the field of Internet commerce, Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, Second Edition, explores the core issues surrounding the construction of successful Internet commerce systems. It provides a solid foundation, focusing on best practices and approaches for Internet architecture and design. This significant new edition reflects lessons learned since the late 1990s, explaining how and why essential technologies and commerce issues have evolved and how those changes have resulted in a new era for commerce systems. Topics covered include:

• Extensible markup language (

• The evolution of shopping carts and order management
• Integration with enterprise applications
• Development of reliable and scalable systems
• Mobile and wireless systems and technologies

Designing Systems for Internet Commerce is your key to building a commerce site that will meet your business needs and satisfy demanding customers.

With a focus on problem solving, the authors share their mastery with you as they explore the major challenges and obstacles related to Internet commerce architecture and strategy. This comprehensivecoverage includes:

• Core Internet business strategy
• Retail and B2B systems
• Information commerce business models with case studies
• Functional architecture
• Implementation strategies, such as outsourcing, custom development, packaged applications, project management, 7x24 operation, and multiorganization operation
• The building blocks of Internet commerce, including media and application integration, sessions and cookies, object technology, and application servers
• Proven strategies for system design
• Creating and managing content
• Essential considerations in cryptography and system security
• Payment systems and transaction processing

Explores some of the common issues that are addressed when planning for an Internet commerce system. The authors analyze the business requirements of Internet commerce, identify fundamental design issues for commerce systems, and describe the basic technologies used for Internet commerce. The second edition adds chapters on XML and web services, integration with enterprise applications, and wireless systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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A guide to the business and technical considerations of building systems for pursuing commerce on the Internet. Discusses such aspects as consumer retail, business-to-business, and information commerce business models, privacy versus merchandizing; legal issues such as taxation, copyright, and digital signatures, cryptography and security standards and digital signatures, and architecture and implementation strategies. Includes an annotated bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

G. Winfield Treese is a principal at Serissa Research, Inc., a consulting company focused on enhancing the security of Internet applications. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Open Market, Inc., an early pioneer in developing applications for Internet commerce.

Lawrence C. Stewart is a principal at Serissa Research, Inc., a consulting company focused on enhancing the security of Internet applications. Previously, he was part of the founding team at Open Market, Inc., an early pioneer in developing applications for Internet commerce.