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Internet Commerce Development

   by Craig Standing

  Hardcover:
    Artech House Publishers
    February, 2000

   US$37.00

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Editorial description(s):

From Book News, Inc.
From the viewpoint of Internet commerce as an evolving business direction rather than a discrete information technology project, the perceived need for nontraditional IT development strategies is described in the first chapter. Subsequent chapters overview new Internet commerce systems development methodologies; strategic planning and systems analysis for value-added Internet systems; maintenance and management of the Web site resource; and ways of sustaining the Internet commerce drive in the changing organizational environment. Case studies illustrate Internet opportunities and lessons from the travel industry, retailing, virtual organizations, and the Internet/Intranet at the author's base of Edith Cowan U. in Western Australia (where you can e-mail him).Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Book Info
Discusses how to link the commercial side of your Internet presence with your organization's overall business strategy, so that your commercial Web site won't be just another add-on. DLC: Electronic commerce.

Download Description
If you?re an IT professional assigned the task of developing a comprehensive e-commerce solution, look no further than this new book. It helps you design and implement an e-commerce website that is an integral part of your entire IT system using a unique methodology. This methodology, easily linked with overall business strategy, makes the commercial side of your Internet presence a vital and well-supported function of your overall IT architecture. Packed with illustrations and the technical references you need to design, build and implement the author?s e-commerce system, this book delivers practical, hands-on information and the insights of case studies. --This text refers to the edition.

Reader review(s):

Focused, no nonsense approach, July 4, 2001
Although this book is rich with details, it is too terse to be considered comprehensive. The ideal audience, in my opinion, consists of (1) project managers who will be tasked with planning these systems, (2) development managers who need to organize their resources to produce systems that are rapidly evolving even before the first line of code is written, and (3) production support, which will be taking highly dynamic systems into production.

One thing stands out about this book - it begins with business requirements and makes them a central theme of the Internet Commerce Development Methodology (ICDM), which is the author's approach to e-commerce systems development. The ICDM is the heart of this book. It's a methodology that successfully marries business analysis and development, and also defines how the project should be organized. It's a top-down approach with feasibility analysis and strategy at the top. The next layer in ICDM is the process level, which is imperative for e-commerce initiatives, which will certainly change business processes. This layer also requires a feasibility analysis, as well as process change, reengineering and transformation steps. Next is the meta-development strategy that encompasses your component strategy, functional requirements, architecture, design and implementation. Each element requires a feasibility analysis. Stepping back and viewing the ICDM as a whole it looks a lot like a spiral life cycle approach. I am not sure that is the author's intent, but it can be construed as such, especially if you view the feasibility analyses checkpoints as risk assessments as well.

The entire process is evolutionary, and therefore the approach supports incremental delivery and implementation. In many respects it resembles the Rational Unified Process and could be easily aligned to a project that used that approach in e-commerce development. Even of you are locked into a different methodology I strongly recommend this book because it has some excellent practices and will give you ideas that can be seamlessly incorporated into your approach.

Should have been named - "E-Commerce Complete"...., June 12, 2000
As an IT professional, I understand the need for quick and complete information, and this book gives it. The learners guide for beginners and the definitive guide for advanced users all in one package. Inovative, and thought inspiring, the theories in design and implimentaion are on the cutting edge of design concepts, even 6 moth after its release.

Much Needed Book, December 8, 2000
This book provides the information needed to develop Web Systems in an organisational setting. It takes you through all the components of development with an innovative approach called ICDM. The methods have helped me greatly at work in my role as a Web developer.

much needed reference, December 5, 2000
Practitioners and students have been waiting for a book such as this to come along. In reality there is very little in the way of methodological help guiding the development of information systems for conducting web commerce. This book doesn't disregard the lessons learned from the evolution of systems development but it introduces the key issues throughout the lifecycle that differentiate the complexities of web systems from their traditional counterparts.

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