Introduction to Business/Network Concepts, Technology and business integration, The Hardware of E-commerce: Introduction to networks, Introduction to the business server, Electronic Business Structure: Protocols, The Web pages, Portals of Business, Web salesmanship, Introduction to the client machine and OS. (9 hours)

Business servers: Mail, Applications, Proxy, Entertainment, ISP, Banking. Advertising on the Network: Web software infrastructure, personalization and tracking, Web Billboards, The ‘Hit’ Theory, Intellectual property for sale, ‘Bots’. (10 hours)

Business Netiquette: Do's and Don’t of Web pages, Client service, Personnel, Technical support, Network services, Accounting and statistics, integration of catalogs and other trading information. (5 hours)

Business Security: The Credit card on the Net, Secure transmission, Internal security of telephony, E-mail security, auctions and trading mechanisms, safe exchange, payment mechanisms and protocols, searching hyperlink structures, data mining, copyright protection and security. (12 hours)

To learn the concepts of business/networks, network technology, business integration processes and business server.

To learn about the electronic basic structure of business like protocols, web pages, portals of business, operating system etc.

To gain knowledge about client service, network service, different business servers and their applications with respect to e-commerce.

To understand different mechanisms of business security and applications towards e-commerce.

After reading this subject, students will be able to:
1. Understand about different process of business/networks.
2. Apply e-commerce in real life situation.

W. Hanson, Principles of Internet Marketing, South Western Publishing , 2004

K. K. Bajaj & D. Nag, E Commerce, Tata McGraw Hill , 2006

R. Kalakola and A.B. Whiston, Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, Addison-Wesley , 1996

Marilyn Greensein and Todd M Feinman, Electronic Commerce Security, Risk management and Control, Tata McGraw Hill , 2000