CRITICAL EVALUATION OF RELEVANT ISSUES IN E-BUSINESS

Critical Evaluation of Relevant Issues in E-Business

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Environmental and Industry Analysis of the Software Industry3

Political Factors4

Economic Factors5

Social Factors6

Technological Factors6

Recommended Information System7

Organizational Aspect8

Fig 3: The benefits and Implementation of ERP at organizational level9

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Technical Aspect10

Management Aspect10

The Competitive Advantage11

The Theoretical View11

Contingency Theory11

The Resource-Based View of a Firm12

The Dynamic Capabilities Theory13

Organizational Information Processing Theory13

Possible Security Concerns15

Solutions17

Planning Systems to Test Intrusion17

Data Protection in ERP17

Security Policy18

Implementation of Defence Systems19

Contingency Plans21

The Challenge of Wireless Security22

Conclusion23

References24

Critical Evaluation of Relevant Issues in E-Business

Introduction

In a global business environment, firms are seeking to improve or maintain their competitiveness in the increasingly challenging global marketplace. Information systems are often used as tools to improve customer service reduce cycle times, increase effectiveness, and decrease cost. Keeping in view the greater need for the implementation of an information system, this paper determines the information system implementation in the company and the industry analysis.

Environmental and Industry Analysis of the Software Industry

The continuous expansion capabilities of computers since its birth in After the Second World War, and with the ever-increasing role which devolves in industries more and more, have made ??the software industry a rapidly growing field, and just by its direct weight in the economy, it can be classified among the major industries (Welti,2009,23-67)

The software business is highly skewed, with a marked dominance of U.K. publishers in various markets of the software. The U.K. software industry has a considerable domestic market and eager technologies. It takes considerable advantage of its proximity to the manufacturers components and computers (Welti,2009,23-67).

Continuously expanding the scope of its applications, the software changes its nature. It becomes a strategic element for all branches of industry. Software is a generic technology that is to say an integral component of the value added of all sectors of economic activity. The software operates transversally in the competitiveness of the economy. For many manufacturers, software production is structural; it represents a significant portion of their revenues and a major competitive factor. The software market is particularly difficult to study from a statistical point of view.

The vagueness of definitions or rapid changes brings difficulty in collecting data that are still fragmented and combine to make available figures particularly difficult to interpret. The international trade data of software is clearly undervalued because of the difficulty in tracing this type of exchange. Software industry is characterized as being highly innovative and has only recently taken such importance (Welti,2009,23-67). The following are the main environmental factors influencing the software industry:

Political Factors

The political change in UK influences the software industry. There has been an effort to enact the legislation to curb the software piracy which is known some of the significant threats to the industry. At current, there are many anti piracy laws that have been passes in UK and the measures that are set forth against the crime. It is anticipated that it will help controlling the piracy concerns in UK. From a global view, various political scenarios in different countries where the software companies operate on the ...