Reference no: EM131132819

I need an introduction and a conclusion to the paper.

To Prepare:

• Consider a scenario in which you have decided to start an online business.
• Consider the hardware, software networks, and databases necessary for you to validate user identity, manage inventory, process requests and transactions, and log user activity that must be logged for billing and marketing services.
• Then, consider development of the following functionality:
  • Website design
  • Hosting
  • Creation of user profiles and customer files
  • A dynamic and updated multimedia catalog, a fast catalog search engine
  • Shopping cart
  • Credit card processing
  • Shipping and tax calculations
  • E-mail notifications
  • Usage statistics
  • Sales and inventory reports
  • Customer account management
  • Customer support (help menus, tutorials, FAQs, etc.)
  • Servers and power
  • Password protection
  • Encrypted order processing
  • Integration with back-office software
• Consider which elements of the required functionality listed you would develop in house and which you would outsource.

Submit a a 3- to 4-page paper that includes the following:

• A diagram of the hardware, software, network, and database components needed for your hypothetical ecommerce site to ensure the functionality listed in the "To Prepare" area of this Assignment
• A description of the hardware, software, network, and database components needed for your hypothetical e-commerce site as described in the "To Prepare" area of this Assignment
• An explanation of which of the functions described in the "To Prepare" area of this Assignment that you would primarily develop in-house and which you would outsource to a web development or hosting company, and why
• I need an introduction and a conclusion included. It can't have an plagiarism.