An Innovative Framework of Integrating ERP into IS 2010 Model Curriculum

The wide spread of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology has made information systems (IS) education shift the focus from functional applications development to enterprise software implementation and configuration. The latest model curriculum for undergraduate IS programs, the IS 2010, has made teaching the large and complex ERP software system an important issue. This paper presents a framework of innovatively integrating ERP into four core and three elective courses proposed in IS 2010. The paper illustrates the integrated ERP curriculum by discussing the design, content, and teaching methods for the seven courses using SAP as the software tool. The purpose of the paper is to provide a useful guideline for those who seek to teach ERP technology in the undergraduate IS curriculum

SCAAS: A Secure Authentication and Access Control System for Web Application Development

User authentication and data access are becoming two of the most common areas for web attacks. Most security vulnerabilities occur in areas of coding where Web security has lapsed. This paper describes the design and development of a Secure Authentication and Access Control System (SCAAS) implemented as a reusable library that provides data driven and encryption based authentication and access control for the use with ASP.NET applications

336 A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE STORE FUNCTIONALITIES

ABSTRACT Online retailing today is considered as the most prevalent business model of electronic commerce applications. Research related to online stores is plentiful, but there appears to be a lack of broad and flexible frameworks that can be used to capture the functionalities of online stores in a systematic and modular manner. This paper presents such a comprehensive functionality framework in the form of a two-dimension grid, with one dimension distinguished between store functional architecture and another distinguished between store system goals. This framework provides a crucial guidance for the analysis, design, and development of online stores. Keywords: E-commerce, Online Stores, Information Quality, System Quality, Service Quality INTRODUCITON Online retailing is considered as the most prevalent business model and the fastest-growing retail channel of electronic commerce applications existing today Development and operation of an online store would incur high costs that need to be carefully justified and controlled. Therefore, online store owners need to have a comprehensive view of the stores and be able to systematically indentify and refine system goals to achieve store competitiveness and differentiation. System goals have been recognized as powerful drivers for systems development, because they help relate system requirements to the business and organizational needs and enable traceability of design rationale The objective of this study is to develop such a comprehensive framework. Section 2 discusses the functional architecture of online stores. Section 3 presents a synthesis and summary of system goals for online stores identified from related literature. Section 4 illustrates the framework that integrates both functionalities and system goals of online stores. Finally, section 5 concludes with some limitations of the framework. FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF ONLINE STORES "Ecommerce" is commonly viewed as "the sale and purchase of products and services over the internet, which includes the sharing of business information, maintaining business relationship, and conducting business transaction by way of internet based technology" Several attempts have been made to depict or classify online store functional architecture. Nour and Fadlalla [31] classified the Internet-based virtual markets according to two principal marketing categories: product and delivery. Rowley [38] viewed online stores in terms of five components of marketing activity: promotion, one-to-one contact, closing, transaction and fulfillment. Emphasizing the customer's perspective, Wan [45], added "service" as the sixt

An Overview of Financial E-Commerce

This study examines the benefits and problems arising from the electronic brokerage services and the electronic investment banking processes. Some important benefits of the electronic financial services include greater transparency, more unprecedented opportunities for innovation and competition increase in trading volume, and creative methods for risk reduction. Problems about online broker-dealers and electronic investment banking include lack of direct contact between investor and broker, and glitches in the technology that inconvenient the end users. In the equity market, the channel of distribution through online IPO is limited when compared to traditional pubic offering through underwriters. One important problem with financial e-commerce is the security and privacy problem. The security issue of online trading business can be divided into two parts: hardware security and software security. Hardware security problems involve network corruption, system crash, communication problem between networking servers and execution servers. Software security problems involve hacking, insider fraud, and account information theft. Brokerage firms use multiple security mechanisms to deal with these problems. These security mechanisms include: (1) Account and password control. This is the basic security control. (2) Encryption of transaction data. Transmission of data online always involves security flows. Government as well as online financial service providers needs to take responsibilities to educate and communicate with investors to help them understand the benefits and risks of electronic financial services. To create a healthy investment environment is also vital to the future development of an electronic equity market

Chemical and isotopic database for McHenry County study on groundwater quality and land use

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Morphology of Silicon Nitride Grown from a Liquid Phase

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Optical band edge shift of anatase cobalt-doped titanium dioxide

We report on the optical properties of magnetic cobalt-doped anatase phase titanium dioxide Ti_{1-x}Co_{x}O_{2-d} films for low doping concentrations, 0 <= x <= 0.02, in the spectral range 0.2 to 5 eV. For well oxygenated films (d << 1) the optical conductivity is characterized by an absence of optical absorption below an onset of interband transitions at 3.6 eV and a blue shift of the optical band edge with increasing Co concentration. The absence of below band gap absorption is inconsistent with theoretical models which contain midgap magnetic impurity bands and suggests that strong on-site Coulomb interactions shift the O-band to Co-level optical transitions to energies above the gap.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; Version 2 - major content revisio

Hall effect in the marginal Fermi liquid regime of high-Tc superconductors

The detailed derivation of a theory for transport in quasi-two-dimensional metals, with small-angle elastic scattering and angle-independent inelastic scattering is presented. The transport equation is solved for a model Fermi surface representing a typical cuprate superconductor. Using the small-angle elastic and the inelastic scattering rates deduced from angle-resolved photoemission experiments, good quantitative agreement with the observed anomalous temperature dependence of the Hall angle in optimally doped cuprates is obtained, while the resistivity remains linear in temperature. The theory is also extended to the frequency-dependent complex Hall angle