eBusiness Parts Lists

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e-Business Parts Lists
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The Infrastructure

• The one set of technologies and services that
  just about all Internet e-businesses share is the
  infrastructure layer.
• It consists of the hardware and software that
  generate a website, as well as where that
  equipment actually lives and who looks after it.
• Among the most basic issues is how your site
  will
  connect to the Internet.

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Carrier

• About a dozen major companies offer
  industrial-strength Internet connections.
• The main issue is how much bandwidth you need.
• A site with limited traffic might make do with a
  digital T-1 line, operating at 1.5 million bits
  per second,
• while a big web operation might opt for a direct
  fiber-optic connection that can carry as much as
  2.6 billion bits per second.
• Price 3,800 per month

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Hosting Center

• Small businesses might be able to cram their
  computer gear into a closet somewhere,
• while bigger firms usually opt to build specially
  designed equipment rooms.
• Increasingly, companies large and small are
  turning to so-called co-location services, which
  are specialized, cost-efficient facilities for
  hosting your equipment and connecting it to the
  Internet.
• Price 6,000 per month

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Router

• Information travels on the Internet in packets
• These Packets ricochet around with the help of
  routers, devices that make sure the packets reach
  their intended destination.
• Your routers help receive and send the packets
  going to and from your website.
• Price 100,000

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More Infrastructure

• Web Servers - 2,000 to 200,000
• Application Servers - for stock quotes, personal
  information, shopping carts - 30,000
• Database Servers - 120,000
• Storage Systems - 250,000
• Load Balancing, Security, Caching - 150,000
• Or
• Managed Service Providers - 40,000 a month

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The Basic Applications

• On top of all that infrastructure is the
  application layer,
• The application layer is made up of software and
  services that either extend the site's
  performance or make it easier to manage.

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The Basic Applications

• Content Management - 300- 400K
• Personalization - 120 K
• Transaction Engines - 400- 1 Million
• Ad Serving - 12,000 a month
• Site Analysis - 6,000
• Campaign Management - 120- 500K
• Customer Support- 100- 250K

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The Big Integrations

• The next step in e-business is to use the
  Internet to tie together practically all the
  traditional disciplines associated with selling
  and manufacturing.

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The Big Integrations

• Application Integration - 300- 1.5 Million
• Sales Integration - 300- 500K
• Supply Chain Integration - 1- 3 Million
• Financials - 300K

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Fulfillment

• Getting your product out the door and to its
  destination is the complex final act of
  e-business.
• These applications
• receive shipping orders,
• figure out the best means of transport,
• arrange for pickup and delivery,
• and even notify the home office when the shipment
  has arrived and is signed for.
• Price 250,000 to 450,000