E-Commerce

E-Commerce

Task 1

Social implications of E-Commerce

E-commerce has positive influence on the social activities and in this manner it contributes in the social development process. E- Commerce systems have changed the perspectives of customers by providing them additional value, delivery of services, security and ease in the service delivery. People can now enjoy remote or online shopping with the help of these e-commerce systems, they can anytime gain access to services and goods that they require. E-commerce have made health care system available for the people, people can now easily access health care services from their homes. It has provided students with the facility of online education; students can get access to any kind of knowledge and information just because of the development of this e-commerce technology.

Benefits of E-Commerce

There are several benefits that this E-Commerce technology provides to customers and consumers (Miller, 2002). The most important benefits are as follows:

There is a number of shopping search engines and consumers can locate the best costs by comparing the prices available at different shopping websites.

This is of great advantage for people situated in urban areas, they can remotely access to stores that are far from their reach.

Since, it has eliminated the need of the physical store; in this way e-commerce business saves on the biggest overhead cost that retailer has to bear.

Since the processes of e-commerce are automated to great extent, less number of employees is required for the purpose of serving customers. Human resource is used more efficiently for other functions of higher level.

Drawbacks of E-Commerce

Besides number of advantages of e-commerce (Miller, 2002), there are some drawbacks of this technology as well that are as follows:

As the payment of these services makes use of the credit card, so the higher risk of credit card fraud is there.

Customers run the identity fraud risk and other risks as their personal details are taken by ecommerce business.

Task 3

Hardware

E- Commerce is the form of business in which u just need a computer. So hardware requirements fro e-commerce includes:

Keyboard.

Monitor.

Mouse.

Modem.

CPU.

Network card.

Software

Servers such as LINUX, Sun or Microsoft are used in designing e-commerce websites. These servers will run some of the main functions the Sheet Co e-commerce system like display of product, online order placement and management of inventory.

Firewalls and security software such as Ad-Aware, McAfee, and Malwarebytes will also be used in the E-commerce design. The firewalls provide protection against the unauthorized access.

Graphic designing software like Photoshop is ...