EBK ESSENTIALS OF MIS,
EBK ESSENTIALS OF MIS,
13th Edition
ISBN: 8220106778494
Author: LAUDON
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 11HMP

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The chosen website is “www.alibaba.com”:

It is an e-commerce website which provides buying and selling the products through online. Alibaba provide services and products to the user.

Functioning of the website:

The website gives the attractive user interface to the customer to make orders. The website focus on the trading business at e-commerce portals. The functions of the website is related by customer-to-customer, business-to-business, and business-to-customer. It provides some methods as functions to make a purchase. They are:

  • The website of www.alibaba.com has the products in category order. It enables user friendly interaction that makes the customers to buy.
  • It has the filter option based on products, price, country, and brand. The user can find the suppliers by their preferred region.
  • It provides notification messages for new product arrival, discounts on cart products. These offers make the customers to buy the product.
  • Secure payment is a main module to make the customers to trust the website. Multiple safe payment options like e-Checking, credit card, and T/T are available to make a payment for the product.

Information requirements for the website:

  • It has the information requirement about the product like product price, product manufacturer, brand name, etc.
  • The customer requirement also needed when place the order in the website. These information are stored securely in the database.

Data used in the website:

In the www.alibaba...

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