Title :
The M-Commerce Architecture Study Based on SaaS Model
Author :
Zhao, Longwen ; Feng, Xiaoning
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Commerce, South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
As the M-Commerce (mobile commerce) has become a hotspot of the e-commerce development, enterprises focus their eyes on how to make greater profits by M-Commerce. The emergence of SaaS has provided an opportunity for the mobile commerce development of the enterprises, especially SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). Aiming at the existing problems of M-Commerce (such as the limited resource of mobile terminals, network security, physical security, the high cost of building a mobile commerce system and so on), this paper puts forward a mobile commerce architecture based on the SaaS model, then introduces the business operations under this architecture by mobile terminals, and pointes out the advantages of the architecture.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; small-to-medium enterprises; software architecture; SME; e-commerce development; m-commerce architecture; mobile commerce development; small and medium-sized enterprises; Application software; Business; Costs; IP networks; Information security; Network servers; Power generation economics; Protection; Web and internet services; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4638-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4639-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301671