Evolution of Enterprise Information Systems in the Internet Era

Engineering Internet Commerce is about building Web-enabled enterprise information systems to carry out business transactions over the Internet. This engineering task is related to three aspects: the requirement specification, the Internet technology, and the development methodology. In the requirement specification, the business analysis and design is conducted to create a semantic business model that will reflect both the business and the system requirement. With the Internet technology, the modern information technology infrastructure is investigated in order to transform a business model into an implementation model. The system analysis and design will be performed and the architecture issues should be discussed. With respect to the development methodology, an efficient way to build enterprise information systems is addressed. This chapter is to provide an overview of the problems, concerns, and the background in an effort to rationalize the Internet Commerce Engineering.

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Enterprise Information Systems and B2B E-Commerce

Electronic Commerce ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-943-4.ch050 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 611-621

Author(s):

C. Richard Baker

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Data Integrity ◽

The Internet ◽

Enterprise Information ◽

Efficient Manner ◽

Enterprise Information Systems ◽

Technical Structure ◽

Wide Range ◽

Electronic Data Transmission

Although the overall investment in information technology (IT) decreased during the first few years of the 21st century, B2B e-commerce continued to expand at a rapid rate (Lim & Wen, 2002). The expansion of B2B e-commerce has been based to a large extent on accounting and enterprise-wide information systems (EISs) that permit electronic data transmission and execution of transactions in an effective and efficient manner. Since B2B e-commerce is Internet based, the EISs required to support B2B e-commerce must be Internet capable. The primary language of the Internet, Hyper-text Mark-up Language (HTML), is not well-suited for transmitting data and executing transactions. Consequently, Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) was developed to facilitate a wide range of electronic information exchange applications, including many applications related to B2B e-commerce. XML also allows legacy data to be accessed through the Internet. As initially conceived, XML had a number of constraints, particularly in the area of data integrity and security; however, these constraints are being overcome. This article discusses the objectives of using XML in B2B e-commerce, reviews the technical structure of XML, and discusses ways that data integrity can be maintained and security enhanced while engaging in B2B e-commerce.

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Enterprise Information Systems and B2B E-Commerce

Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch007 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 150-166

Author(s):

C. Richard Baker

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information Systems ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Enterprise Information ◽

Efficient Manner ◽

Enterprise Information Systems ◽

Technical Structure ◽

Electronic Data Transmission

While the overall investment in information technology (IT) decreased somewhat during the first several years of the 21st century, B2B e-commerce technologies have expanded at an increasing rate (Lim & Wen, 2002). The expansion of B2B e-commerce has been technologically based on enterprise-wide information systems (EISs) that allow electronic data transmission and execution of transactions in a secure and efficient manner. Since B2B e-commerce is Internet-based, the EISs used to support B2B e-commerce must be Internet capable. The primary language of the Internet, Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), is not well-suited for transmitting data and executing transactions. Consequently, Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) was developed to facilitate electronic information exchange applications, including many applications related to B2B e-commerce. As initially conceived, XML had a number of constraints, particularly in the area of data integrity and security, however, these constraints have gradually been overcome. This chapter reviews the objectives of using XML in B2B e-commerce, reviews the technical structure of XML, and discusses ways that security and privacy can be enhanced while engaging in B2B e-commerce.

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