The intranet should be implemented in phased. If a network is already in place, the steps essentially revolve around selecting services and software, the operating system and special tools for content creation. The existing databases and software applications may be integrated into the intranet. This calls for a proper plan to be prepared. The important step to implementation follows. Planning:...

Electronic funds transfer (EFT) systems constitute a major form of electronic commerce system in banking and retailing industries. EFT systems use a variety of information technologies to capture and process money and credit transfers between banks and businesses and their customers. For example, banking networks support letter terminals at bank offices and automated teller machines (ATM). Banks...

A wide area network connects computers located across a wide geographical area. For example an organization may have its offices scattered over different cities and each office needs to share data with other offices. In this case computers and LANs of different sites may be connected by public communication facility (like telephone network) or private communication network to realize a WAN. A WAN...

The computer organizing a transaction must identify its intended destination with a unique address. Every computer on the Internet has a 4-part numeric address, called the IP (Internet Protocol) address. The IP address contains routing information that identifies destination location. Each of the four parts is a number between 0 and 255, so an IP address looks like this: 108.64.125.116. Computers...

The World Wide Web (the Web or WWW) was created in 1989 at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Originally it was created as a method for incorporating footnotes, figures, and cross-references into online hypertext documents in which a reader can click on a word or phrase in a document, and immediately jump to another file. The second file may be located on the same computer...