Information and Decision Sciences

IDS 313 Business Web Applications

Credit hours 3 hours
Catalog description Internet business applications in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, and marketing. Assessing business problems, planning Internet-based solutions, and understanding web tools. Students interested in further studies can continue with IDS 413.
Key topics
  • Use of the Internet for businesses. Overview of Internet business applications in finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, accounting, e-government, e-learning, and public health.
  • Providing financial services through and with the Internet.
  • E-advertisement, e-marketing, and Internet Business-to-Customer and Business-to-Business activities.
  • Web-based government services: Transactions (e.g., review & payments of Medicare claims, parking tickets, property taxes, and business licenses), electronic procurement, electronic vot-ing, access to meetings, officials, and public records.
  • Case study in marketing, such as building a simple Internet-based CRM system, or a system similar to the Jewel-card based Avenu system, using Internet-development software such as Microsoft FrontPage or DreamWeaver.
  • Case study in finance, such as building an internet-based mortgage calculator or credit analysis.
  • Case study in accounting, such as a distributed simple sales-support accounting system.
  • Survey of Internet application development tools.
  • Summarizing methods and models for designing Internet business applications.
Prerequisites for this course None
Course(s) for which this is a prerequisite IDS 413
Required course for None
Elective course for Elective Course for IDS Majors
Frequency of offering Offering varies
Recent offerings, instructors, syllabi New class
Planned offerings Fall 2007
Cross-listings None
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