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Database Management for Electronic Commerce and

EBusiness

Walt Scacchi, Ph.D.

GSM 274/FEMBA 274

Spring 2002

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Overview

• Introductions

• Course audience and demographics

• Administrative matters

• Foundational concepts

• Course topics

• Questions

• Topic 1: Collecting and Managing Data

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Introductions

• Instructor: Dr. Walt Scacchi

• Teaching assistant(s):– none

• Administrative support:– Natasha Shuqum

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Course audience and demographics: what are your career interests?

Executive (Corporate Officer, Vice President, Division Director, etc.)?

Mid-Career Manager (not an IT department manager)?

IT Consultant ? Entrepreneur? Academic Scholar? Other?

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Administrative matters

• Office, office hours and contact – ICS2-242– Tuesday 1:00-2:30pm, and by appointment– Office: 949-824-4130 – Email: Wscacchi@uci.edu– Web: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi

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Administrative matters

• Projects and Exams– Team project, final presentation, deliverables– Mid-term exam

• Assignments and Discussion– Assigned articles and case studies– DB-Web site case studies– Web-based business intelligence gathering

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Administrative matters

• Attendance and Participation– Both count!

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Administrative matters

• Grading policy– Final project: 50%– Mid-term exam: 20%– Assignments and discussion: 20%– Attendance: 10%

• Project team formation– Team size: 3-5 people– Start building your team today!

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Administrative matters

• Communicating course material:– Am I explaining course materials so that you

understand? If not, you must let me know.

• Course preparation:– All course materials (e.g., lecture notes, readings,

assignments) will be posted on the Web

• Discussion:– Assignments or team project work each week

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Administrative matters• Access:

– See my Office hours and TBD hours: contact me!

• Progress (Grades):– Scheduled assignments and team project work

• Emphasis of conceptual understanding:– 50% lecture and course work on concepts for

database management for EC/EB– 50% work on putting these concepts into practice,

via the team project.

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Administrative matters• Rigor: iterative presentation and exploration

– Formal vs. informal – Three iteration cycles

• Overall value of course to you:– You will learn fundamental concepts of

database management for EC/EB– You define your team project to best address

your professional goals– You should ask questions about topical issues

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Course matters -- Reading Materials• Required: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/DBM-EC/

• Recommended (or Required) textbooks:– David Kroenke, Database Processing, (Eighth

Edition), Prentice-Hall, 2002.– Jim Buyens, Web Database Development : Step by

Step, Microsoft Press, 2000.

– R.J. Muller, Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling, MK, 2000.

– G. Treese and L. Stewart, Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

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Foundational concepts Understanding the Value and Consequences of

Good/Bad Data Database-Centric Business Models for EC Database Management Systems Architecture Database Administration Data Assets as a corporate resource requiring

management (access control, etc.) Database Modeling and Transaction Design Advanced Database Applications: Multi-media,

knowledge management, workflow, etc.

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Course topics

• Collecting and Managing Databases

• Database Management Based Business Models for Electronic Commerce

• Electronic Commerce Database Applications

• Enterprise Database Systems Architecture: Legacy IS to Web-based

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Course topics

• Data Base Management for Data Base Administrators (DBAs)

• Data and Enterprise Modeling

• Database Design via Data Models and Meta-Data Models

• Query Processing and Transaction Design

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Course topics• Data Warehousing (and Spatial Data

Warehousing)

• Data or Information Discovery

• Knowledge Management

• Automated Database Content Acquisition or Generation

• Workflow, Stored Procedures, Triggers

• Information Logistics and Data Syndication

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Questions?

• What do you want to learn or take away from this course?

• What are your criteria of success?

• What do you want me to do to help you achieve your success?

• What about the team project?

• Others?