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| B2B (business to business) |
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-your company sells products or materials to other companies rather than to the general public
-streamline transactions between you as the seller and the other businesses as buyers |
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| B2C (business to consumer) |
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ex: website
advertise your products and to allow the general public to make online purchases |
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| where financial transactions are conducted by electronic means |
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| where orders are processed, alerted, and inventory is reduced, all electronically. It may operate completely online, or it may also have a physical retail site. |
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| ASP (application service provider) |
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| designs and manages websites on an ongoing basis for businesses for a fee |
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| ICANN (internet corporation for assigned names and numbers) |
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| a nonprofit corporation that took over the task of domain name management from the US gov. in 1998 |
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-an entry point web page with links to other web pages on some topic
-can be thought of as a starting point to learn about a particular subject, and it typically contains many helpful pointers to useful info on that subject. |
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| a graphical ad, often with animation, placed in a prominent position on a web page |
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| a small text file that the web server sends to the user's browser and that gets stored on the user's hard drive |
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| no info about this exchange is permanently retained by the server |
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| encodes the data to be transmitted into a scrambled form, using a scheme agreed on between the sender and the receiver |
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| the process of verifying the identity of the receiver of the data |
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| the practice of impersonating a legitimate site for the purposes of stealing money or stealing identity by collecting confidential info such as credit card numbers, names, and addresses |
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| site under the protection of SSL |
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| how info is classified and organized so customers can easily find what they want |
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| provides a high-level overview of a web site architecture, plus makes it easy to navigate through the site |
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| CRM (customer relationship management) |
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| all of the measures used to help improve customer satisfaction, build customer relationships, and bring people back to your web site |
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-software that allows separate, existing programs to communicate and work together seamlessly
-translate between incompatible data representations, file formats, and network protocols to allow otherwise incompatible systems to exchange info |
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| disaster recovery strategy |
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| plans to back up critical data, keep online business open even when server fails, and plans on what to do if a hacker breaks into your site and steals customer info |
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| bits combined into groups of eight |
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| a group of bytes used to represent a string of characters |
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| a collection of related fields |
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| where related records are kept |
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| related files combined together |
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| database management system (DBMS) |
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-manages the files in a database
-aids in data abstraction and maintenance
-aids in development of software that's shares date
-better control of security and access levels
-reduction in data |
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| relational database model |
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-conceptual model of a file as a two dimensional table
-most common database management system
-relation = table
-operators on tables produce results that are also tables (select, project, cross product (join), set union, set difference, rename)
-SQL is a declarative language that specifies a combination of the built in relational operators
-the relational algebra is a procedural language |
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-what the table in a relational database model represents
-fundamental distinguishable component |
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| a row of the table that contains data about one instance of the entity |
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| each category of information, the heading above each column identifies it |
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| an attribute or combination of attributes that uniquely identifies a tuple |
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| required by database management to enable the user or another application program to query the database in order to retrieve info |
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| 2 attributes are needed to identify a tuple uniquely |
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-establishes the relationship between an attribute and the entity
-key from another table that refers to a specific key, usually the primary key |
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| allow the physical data to reside at separate and independent locations that are electronically networked together |
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