Understanding E-Business: SWOT Analysis, SDLC Methodology, and System Architecture

This article discusses the three perspectives of e-business, SWOT analysis, SDLC methodology, and system architecture. It also covers the factors to consider in building an ecommerce site, such as management, software, design, human resources, and hardware architecture.

E-business in general is termed to doing of all business transactions over the internet. A company will
normally use the internet in carrying out its all business activities or selling all the products and services
over the same platform (Lexicon, 2017). When we imagine the existence the of an e-business we have to
look it in three perspectives explained as follows
1. Idea. This are the vision which includes things such as the mission statement, target audience,
strategic analysis etc.
2. The sources of money, demographics and the size of market.
3. Source of content and develop an ecommerce map.
The individual has to understand his SWOT Analysis.
S- Strength
W- Weakness
O- Opportunities
T- Threats
Understanding of SWOT will lead to a more understanding of e-businesses presences that is considering
the presences of ecommerce that are of different kind and associated platforms and activities interacts
with each indicated of presence.
In building an ecommerce site there are some main factors to be put in to consideration that is the
management, software, design, human resources, hardware architecture. In developing the way and
understanding of this business the methodology of the SDLC will need to be followed that is as follows.
The system analysis and planning being the first phase consists of the business activities listing all
capabilities the intended business have, the system functionalities and the information requirements.
SystemanalysisandplanningDesignofthesystemBuildingthesystemTestingImplementation

System design is the second phase that details of the platforms of hardware and software respectively.
One has describe specification of the system design. One has to know the components of the design that is
logical (DFDs, DB) and the physical design (sonia, 2015).
Phase three is building the system which is mainly doing outsourcing, building own and hosting own. In
outsourcing (hire vendors to provide services in building). Building own (is giving the required team with
diverse skill set) and Host own (the company responsible for ensuring accessibility all the time of the
site).
Fourth phase testing the system that have five types of testing namely Unit, System, Acceptance, Split
and Multivariate testing (egwoh, 2017).
Lastly is the implementation phase which is the system break (execution) down predictably. Also
maintenance is ongoing in this phase. There are three factors to consider in optimizing a website that the
page content, delivery and generation.
System architecture is the software arrangement, machinery, and activities that an IS needs in achieving
some functions that are specific (Len Bass, 2015). The two types of tier are:.
1. Architecture of the two-tier.
2. In here the two tier has a web-server that responds to the all requests asked by the web-pages and
the db. server offer provision for data storage at the backend
3. Multi-tier
Here the web-server have a joint with a middle-tier layer which contains multiple applications of
servers that operates tasks that are specifics.
E-commerce merchant server software offers provision of the basic functionality to be sold such as the
online catalog, shopping cart and the credit card processing. There are some factors in selecting a
package which includes:
Functionality
Performance and scalability
Compliance with standards
Business process modelling tools
Global and multicultural capability.
In choosing the hardware one have to know its platform and objective. There are other e-commerce site
tools such as the web design and the tool for search engine optimization eg links, buy ads and local e-
commerce. There are tools that are used for interactivity and active content which includes CGI, ASP,,
JAVA, PHP among others.
Lastly in developing a mobile website there are some considerations to be considered which include the
platform, first design, responsiveness and the adaptive.

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