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Finding a reliable, secure, and flexible payment processing solution for your business is critical, so it’s important to take the time to investigate and assess the options available to you. A...

Credit card fraud can be a significant problem for customers, merchants, and credit card issuers[2]. Liability for fraudulent transactions belongs to the credit card issuer for a card-present,...

Authorization verifies that the card is active and that the customer has sufficient credit available to make the transaction. Settlement involves transferring money from the customer’s account to...

Payment processing in the online world is similar to payment processing in the offline or “Brick and Mortar” world, with one significant exception. In the online world, the card is “not...

Visa and MasterCard Take Different Approaches to Authentication

Online merchants could face integration hassles as they deploy forthcoming and competing credit card payer authentication...

The Payment Processing Network
Here’s a breakdown of the participants and elements involved in processing payments:

Acquiring bank: In the online payment processing world, an acquiring bank...

Purchasing online may seem to be quick and easy, but most consumers give little thought to the process that appears to work instantaneously. For it to work correctly, merchants must connect to a...

Electronic Payment Technology Issues


Online payment processing requires coordinating the flow of transactions among a complex network of financial institutions and processors. Fortunately,...

Summary

To be successful, e-businesses must have a continuous optimization business strategy, solid knowledge management practices, and integrated business process domains. No matter what the...

Web sites and intranets are designed for the same reason—to provide information. In the business world, this information needs to be updated and changed constantly in order to stay abreast of a...

E-businesses also need to develop and operate complex transaction processing systems that support their core business operations (see Figures 3.4 and 3.5)[1]. These core operations include the...

Customer Relationship Management

Customer relationships are becoming a more important factor in differentiating one business from another. In order to stay competitive, e-businesses in every...

In every successful e-business, the business process domains (CRM, SCM, and core business operations) are an integral part of the continuous optimization process. The advantage and, thus, the return...

Every business has both tacit and explicit knowledge. One is undocumented, and the other is documented about what is “known” in the company. This knowledge may include information about products...

Strategy and execution are key to developing and sustaining a successful e-business. Only those organizations that successfully integrate key business strategies and processes dramatically increase...

The emerging e-business market affords companies of all sizes and types the opportunity to leverage their existing assets, employees, technology infrastructure, and information to gain or maintain...

An e-business model is simply the approach a company takes to become a profitable business on the Internet. There are many buzzwords that define aspects of electronic business, and there are...

Types of E-Business Models and Markets

In the past two years, e-business seems to have permeated every aspect of daily life. In just a short time, both individuals and organizations have embraced...

As previously explained, with the rapid growth of the Internet, organizations are increasingly using the Web to conduct business with greater speed, reach, and efficiency. This transformation is...

Investing in a Technology Infrastructure

All the consumer confidence and legal support in the world won’t boost e-commerce if there’s no way to deliver electronic content to customers...

The global vitality of an electronic marketplace depends upon free and open trade. Tariffs, regulations, and similar barriers to commerce raise costs and can price many smaller, competitive firms out...

Empowering Individuals to Manage Their Personal Information

In the private sector, all parties to any transaction should have the discretion to voluntarily choose the terms of an information...

In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, individuals, companies, and governments have all focused attention on the issues of safety and security. Much of that attention has fallen...

For hundreds of years, protection of creative material has given authors and other innovators powerful incentives to develop and distribute exciting new products. Throughout, respect for private...

Types of E-Commerce Technology

The global economy may have faltered in 2002, but advances in e-commerce technology continue to transform personal communication and global business at an astounding...

You should define business objectives and understand technology capability and limitations relative to automation opportunities. EDI deployments are often driven by very basic cost-savings arguments...

E-commerce companies that continue to grow seem to be the ones that better understand CRM and what it means to their firms. There’s no question, purchasing over the Internet is as popular as ever...

Roadblocks to E-Commerce

From the sounds of the media, you would think that e-commerce was a landscape of post-Armageddon. That must be why eBay experienced a 260% growth in 2002.

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Value added network (VAN) service charges have gained an onerous reputation since the emergence of the Internet as a corporate communications tool. The idea of charging per-transaction fees to move...

TMM solutions provide organizations with the ability to effectively process heavy order volumes and with the ability to better manage very close, codependent partner relations. Most TMM deployments...

The letter “e” lost much of its language-domineering swagger with the fall of the dot-com economy. Technology marketers, journalists, and analysts now cringe at “e”-inspired products and...

Ensuring the Customer Experience

Given the economic repercussions of a company’s inability to build and retain a base of satisfied, loyal customers, the need for effective site-monitoring...

Customer acquisition costs range wildly from one company to the next, but everyone understands that once a company has acquired customers, the key to maximizing revenue is keeping them.

It is 7...

The rules are the same. To succeed in e-business, just as in brick-and-mortar, you need customers. And, keeping customers is vastly cheaper than getting new ones. High rates of customer retention...

The renaissance of the Internet age launched an entirely new set of communication technologies and methods. As multiple technologies evolve and interoperate, so do complementary standards, such as...

Creating e-business processes without a vision for workflow is shortsighted and expensive. Workflow addresses business needs, streamlines transactions, and is the glue for process coordination and...

Although it is simple to describe their benefits, it is not nearly as easy to develop and deploy commerce systems. Companies can face significant implementation issues:


Cost
Value
Security...

The Internet also offers tremendous time and cost savings for corporate purchasing of low-cost, high-volume goods for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) activities. Typical MRO goods include...

Businesses communicate with customers and partners through channels. The Internet is one of the newest and, for many purposes, best business communications channels. It is fast, reasonably reliable,...

What Is Electronic Commerce?

Overview
Electronic commerce is doing business online. It is about using the power of digital information to understand the needs and preferences of each customer and...

Summary

We discussed the key GPRS concepts and procedures, and we demonstrated how these procedures enable the provision of wireless packet data services, including wide-area wireless Internet...

Intra-SGSN Routing Area Change

Suppose now the MS moves further, and suddenly, the RR layer makes another handover, this time from BTS2 to BTS3 This is again a cell change, and what was mentioned...

Mobility Handling

Throughout this section, we consider an MS, which is communicating with an Internet host; say, it is downloading a file from that host. Our main effort is to illustrate how the...

Routing and Tunneling

After we have established a PDP context, we use a tunneling procedure to transfer PDP packets from the MS to the GGSN. Assume, for instance, that a PDP context of type IPv4...

Setting Up PDP Contexts



After a successful GPRS attach procedure, the mobile station is permitted to use the mobile GPRS services in a secure fashion (a security context is established between...

The Attach Procedure


Before a mobile station can start a wireless IP session or any other packet data session over the GPRS network, it has to perform the registration procedure. In the GPRS...

GPRS Protocols


The Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol (SNDCP) runs between the MS and the SGSN, and it is specified in reference 17. It is the first layer that receives the user IP...

Internet Access over GPRS


Introduction

I will explain how the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology is used for providing mobile/wireless access to the Internet. We explain the...