Data Storage and Architecture

Unit 2: Data Storage and Architecture

IT500: Critical Concepts and Competencies for the IT Professional

Dr. Giannoni

Paper by: Daniel M. Konsoer

With almost 80% of the North American population being on the internet, it is pertinent that companies not only have an online presence, but offer the ability to conduct their daily business via the internet.  There are two strong systems that exist that can help increase sales, and those are e-commerce and m-commerce. According to BusinessTown.com, “Electronic Commerce is the paperless exchange of business information using electronic data interchange (EDI), email, electronic bulletin boards, fax transmissions, and electronic funds Transfer.” Simply put, this can be summarized as any business-to-consumer or business-to-business transaction that occurs over the internet. The second type of system that can be used to increase a business’ revenue is referred to as m-commerce, or mobile commerce. Mobile commerce is defined as “the buying and selling of products and services through the use of wireless mobile devices.” Mobile commerce can be considered the evolved version of e-commerce as users are able to do this wherever they are at in the world as long as they have a smart phone, while e-commerce users are more limited to places they are either plugged into or can access with a wireless access point.

E-commerce has been around for decades, but has done nothing been evolve from its most basic state. Companies such as EBay, Amazon, and Netflix survive solely with their e-commerce system, as you cannot find any of the old-fashioned brick-and-mortar locations. Several more stores such as Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart offer an online shopping system, allowing you to do all one's shopping from the comfort of your own home.

As much as society would believe m-commerce is fairly new to the market, it can actually be traced back to 1997 in Finland where the Coca-Cola Company designed their vending machines to...