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| describes a firm's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats |
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| Systems development life cycle |
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| a methodology for understanding the business objectives of any system and designing an appropriate solution |
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| capabilities you want your site to have |
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| hiring an outside vendor to provide the services you cannot perform with in-house personnel |
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| Content management system |
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| organizes, stores, and processes Web site content |
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| verifies that the business objectives of the system as originally conceived are in fact working |
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| a process in which the site is compared with those of competitors in terms of response speed, quality of layout, and design |
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| e-commerce system architecture in which a web server responds to requests for web pages and a database server provides backend data storage |
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| contents of a web page are stored as objects in a database, rather than being hard-coded in HTML. When the user requests a web page, the contents for that page are then fetched from the database |
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| software programs that provide specific business functionality required of a website |
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| allows shoppers to set aside desired purchases in preparation for checkout, review what they have selected, edit their selections as necessary, and then actually make the purchase by clicking a button |
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| software that is developed by a community of programmers and designers, and is free to use and modify |
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| refers to all the underlying computing equipment that the system uses to achieve its e-commerce functionality |
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| refers to the fact that the server does not have to maintain an ongoing, dedicated interaction with the client |
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| requires input/output operations rather than heavy-duty processing power |
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