Michael B. Spring
Department of Information Science and
Telecommunications
University of Pittsburgh
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| + Current State of E-Business covers a variety of topics that provide an overview of the opportunities present. | |
| + The State of the WWW describes the evolutions and current state of web technology. | |
| + Roots of E-Business will address E-Business in the context of workflow automation, reengineering, and cooperative processing. | |
| + E-Business Document Technologies will address developments in document technology including the basic structure of web transactions and the development of XML and the XML suite of standards | |
| + E-Business Web Site Design will address the process by which a business comes to determine what a web site can do for them and how the basic design of the system is set up in the context of competitive analysis and benchmarking. | |
| + E-Business: A Framework provides an overview of the evolution of business practices and looks at the electronic infrastructure required by modern business including Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management(SCM). | |
| + E-Business: The Transition describes how regular business evolve in a step by step fashion to e-businesses. | |
| + E-Business B2B Infrastructure discusses the facets of ERP and SCM, and Customer Relations Management (CRM) that are critical for e-business. | |
| + Models for E-Business takes a look from three different theoretical perspectives on the models and objectives of various forms of e-business | |
| + B2C and P2P Commerce will address the various approaches taken in consumer oriented web sites. | |
| + E-Business Security Technologies will explore how the need for efficient transactions will be managed in light of the demand for user privacy and data confidentiality. How web managers for medium to large size organizations should monitor network traffic for system violations, develop policy for internal employee use of the web. It will also address how to link order data and credit information in a secure way. The course will also address problems of data security and integrity for organizations engaged in enterprise wide computing applications. Encryption standards (DES and RSA), cookies, certificates, and Directory Services (X.500 and LDAP) are all covered. | |
| + E-Business Technologies for the Future Interactive system design, embedded computing, data capture methods, analog to digital data conversion data analysis and data mining will all be reviewed. The development of visualizations, visual languages, virtual worlds, social environments, etc. will be reviewed in terms of how they support collaboration in these areas. | |
| + B2B Commerce: Customer and Supply Chain will address how Businesses can develop better control of their internal processes and of customer assets. This lecture will provide an overview of the important concepts and standards for business to business e-commerce, and enterprise computing -- e.g. supply chain models. It will also address the standards that are of import to this task including access to database systems, communications standards such as enhanced email, component technologies such as CORBA, RMI and RPC, and data representation technologies such as EDI, XML, and RDF | |
| + B2B Commerce: Publishing and Collaboration addresses a variety of topics in the areas of information dissemination and collaboration as it related to network environments. The lecture will address the notion of organizational capital -- physical, financial, intellectual, social, and knowledge. How research in each of these areas is moving forward to support collaboration will be addressed. | |
| + Collaboration will be examined in the form of a not HTML based system using advanced client server protocols to provide a collaborative authoring environment | |
| + The Next Generation Web: E-speak and E-services Key applications of network based services will be presented and explored including the standards, tools, and design issues. | |
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