Enterprise Resource

Planning
Internet

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Syllabus

• Introduction to Internet and its

capabilities
• Internet benefits to the organizations
• Problems on the internet
• Advantages, exploiting the internet
• Applications on internet and the
future of the internet

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What is internet?

• In 1960 ARPANET (by Advanced

Research Projects Agency, USA)
shared each others computer and
then were able to send e-mail.
• Modern internet works on TCP
(Transmission Control Protocol)
and IP (Internet Protocol).

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TCP/IP ?????

• TCP- Defines how a message should be

divided into streams of packets that
gets transmitted and then how should
they be reassembled at the destination
• IP- Addresses each packet and routes
the packets across different nodes and
networks before they arrive to ultimate
destination

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Introducing WWW
• Initially text based browsing used to
take place on unix machines.
• In 1992 Swiss software engineer Tim
Berness Lee introduced a graphical,
hypertext navigation tool called world
wide web.
• It revolutionised the internet as it
provided a way to make internet
accessible to a common user.
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Usage
• Communication and Collaboration
– Email
– Forums
– Egroups etc.
• Electronic Commerce
– EDI-> exchange of business transaction document
– EFT-> electronic fund transfer
• Interactive Marketing
– Push v/s Pull Marketing
• Entertainment and games

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Organisation Specific Benefits
• Attract Customers
• Improvise Services
• Cost cutting
• Global Dissemination
• Collaboration
• Integrated Information
• Universal Information Access
• Etc.
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Problems On The Internet
• Security
• Integrity
• Misuse
• Connectivity
• Awareness
• Dependency on IT people
• Dependency on IT processes
• Resistance to change etc.
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Preparing a website

• Prepare website HTML page

• Buy a domain name
• Buy web space
• Host your site

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How Does Internet Work

• Request to ISP
• ISP gateway uses DNS (Domain
Name Server) to identify host
server
• Web server servers the request
• Browser interprets tags and
displays
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Scope

• Web pages
• Applications
• Collaboration
• Global Access

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Future

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