OPTIONS TO STARTUP AN E-COMMERCE WEBSITE A TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

To develop a comprehensive e-commerce planning model, it is essential to investigate the planning aspects of e-commerce models in all the related disciples. i.e. finance, law, marketing, operations and IT infrastructure. This report is an attempt to present the IT aspect of the planning. The type of technology and systems used for creating e-commerce solution is among one of the important critical success factors that can affect the success of e-commerce venture. The report discusses about the current IT trends e-commerce companies (small, mid & large) are following to maintain their systems. Purchase propriety/freeware individual system and do integration/maintenance from their own end. This approach has more control over the previous one as we have complete control over designing, controlling and in-depth knowledge of the internal systems and we can modify the system as per our own requirement anytime. But it takes more investment than fully outsourcing because it requires buying the servers/ or hosting fees, purchasing individual components (their license), hiring skilled people.Various individual components when combined together form a complete e-commerce system. Some of the essential components This options includes building the whole system from the scratch. Investment level is the maximum in this route as with the hiring of developers, testing team and supporting team. Sometimes to make further profits they also let their modified versions of their core systems available to the open market by charging some fees against it. This option gives the maximum flexibility to do changes in the system and everything is under control, the whole developer team is there to support and make changes.