Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future [Paperback]

Bohdan O. Szuprowicz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1566070546 | ISBN-13: 978-1566070546 | Publication Date: June 1, 1998 | Edition: 1

Internet technologies such as extranets and intranets are changing the way organizations operate. CTR's 268-page report looks at how these technologies are enabling new business and communication channels, with a focus on E-commerce.

Intranets Versus Extranets

Intranets are internal TCP/IP-based networks that allow information to be shared within an organization. Extranets expand this technology by selectively making the information available to an organization's business partners, customers, and suppliers. Implementing these technologies offers organizations the ability to effectively serve users both inside and outside of the enterprise. CTR's new Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future report explores how the Internet and its related technologies enable the creation of an interactive enterprise -- the business paradigm of the future. The report will help IT professionals form an extranet business strategy, conduct an extranet risk and needs analysis, maximize potential revenue from extranets and E-commerce, and use extranets to enhance customer service support.

Extranets: The Key to E-commerce By combining the privacy and security of intranets with the global reach of the Internet, extranets are ideal environments for implementing E-commerce business solutions. Extranets are expected to build business traffic on the Web far above what has been possible with Web sites, search engines, and banner advertising. In fact, many experts believe that extranets will be the platform of choice for more than 80% of business-to-business E-commerce by the year 2001.

Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future provides valuable information on how organizations can implement extranet technology to conduct E-commerce securely and cost effectively.

The report also evaluates the available E-commerce products and services, explains how E-commerce enhances productivity and competitiveness, and discusses the critical internal and external security issues associated with extranets.

The Future of Networking

Creating an extranet over existing Internet infrastructure brings international companies closer to the idea of operating as a virtual enterprise -- the ultimate in Internet technology.

Extranets and Intranets: E-commerce Business Strategies for the Future includes an in-depth discussion of VPNs, an emerging form of extranet implementation that may become a viable replacement for traditional WANs.

The extranet market is a new and volatile industry; new companies and products are being created every day. While this industry is truly in its formative stages, the report identifies the very latest and most stable products, services, and vendors. A number of case studies of early extranet implementations are also included, providing valuable insight for organizations now embarking on an extranet project.

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Computer Technology Research Corp. (CTR) is an internationally-recognized research and publishing company. Since 1979, CTR's reports have provided information on major technologies, trends, products, companies, and markets concerning the computer industry. Our reports assist executives, users, and vendors with making strategic decisions regarding information technology products and services.

Each CTR report includes management summaries, competitive analyses, technical product evaluations, vendor marketing strategies and case studies. CTR's reports are independently researched and present unbiased, objective views, strengths and limitations of products, and insight into technology directions. The reports provide managers with the vital quality information that is needed to successfully plan large- and small-scale information technology projects.

About the Author

Bohdan Szuprowicz is an authority on leading-edge, interactive multimedia technologies. He is the president of 21st Century Research, a consulting firm specializing in strategic technology research and investment. He also directs Interactive Multimedia Communications, a continuous research program dedicated to investigating new markets, ventures, and strategic implementation of new technologies.

He developed numerous concepts, applications, and product reports for McGraw-Hill/DATA PRO and is a member of the Workgroup Computing Multimedia Solutions services advisory board and completed "Multimedia Databases" and "Portable Multimedia Applications" reports. He is also the author of "Multimedia Networking" book published by McGraw-Hill Professional Book Division.

Mr. Szuprowicz hold a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London and studied Industrial Management and Photojournalism at Columbia University in New York and UCLA. He was born in Poland, educated in France and England, and has traveled throughout the world in more than 60 different countries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Computer Technology Research; 1 edition (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566070546
• ISBN-13: 978-1566070546
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,168,021 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bohdan Olgierd Szuprowicz
Biographical Sketch

Szuprowicz became an orphan at birth when his mother died from an infection following cesarean delivery. Her family kidnapped him and accused the father of poisoning his wife with the aid of a lover, a pharmacist. When a post-mortem confirmed their innocence, the baby was retrieved from a backward village in Lithuania. Bohdan grew up in a military compound where his father served as an artillery officer.
He became a true "child of war" when the Germans bombed the military bases of his native Grodno on the first day of WWII. The family evacuated with military convoys that were strafed by German aircraft and harassed by pro-Soviet terrorists until they reached the relative safety of Romania.
During his formative years Bohdan grew up on the beaches of Cote d'Azur inVichy France. He gained notoriety at that time as an unruly child who tore down Hitlerite posters promoting collaboration. When the Germans occupied the entire country after allied invasion of North Africa, the family escaped across the Pyrenees into Spain, where they were arrested and interrogated by Franco's pro-Nazi security services. Eventually they reached Lisbon and boarded a flying boat clipper for a night flight across the German-controlled Bay of Biscay to Ireland. After a brief internment in England as foreign aliens the family was able to rejoin the father already serving in allied forces in the UK.
As a teenager Szuprowicz attended several schools in Scotland where he matriculated and was invited to a reception in honor of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. His political statement at the time was to tear down a Soviet flag displayed on Princes Street during the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, in protest of postwar treatment of Poland by the allies.
He engaged in farming with his father in East Anglia, but was soon on the move to London where he worked his way through the university. He also traveled in Europe to visit U. S. -backed Free Europe institutions engaged in Cold War propaganda and observed the Arab independence uprisings in Tangier and Morocco.
In 1957 he left for Canada, where he worked in the aircraft industry. Soon after the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite, he was recruited by Boeing in Seattle. Later he joined General Dynamics and IBM, whence he moved to the Center for Economic and Industrial Research Inc. headquartered in Washington DC. He began writing articles about progress of automation in many industries and became the editor of High Technology West, a subsidiary of the newspaper California Business in Los Angeles. This was followed by a round-the-world trip to evaluate computerization in many countries of Africa, Australasia and Europe and included a special visit to Vietnam to observe use of information technology under wartime conditions.
He founded the 21st Century Research consultancy and collaborated with Chase Manhattan Bank in setting up a market research operation to evaluate opportunities in China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He traveled frequently to those areas and crossed Checkpoint Charlie to East Berlin on several occasions. He also toured South Africa to observe apartheid environments and met with independence fighters in Namibia. His work on network planning earned him an invitation to present it at the International Symposium on Operations Research for Developing Countries in Paris.
As a result of his experiences and research into geopolitics, he published "Doing Business with People's Republic of China" and "How to Avoid Strategic Materials Shortages" with John Wiley & Sons, as well as "How to Invest in Strategic Metals" with St. Martin's Press. He also published "Multimedia Networking" with McGraw-Hill, which included Japanese and Korean editions and "Multimedia Tools for Managers" with AMACOM. He collaborated for several years with Computer Technology Research, which published corporate reports on Internet and networking technologies.
For several years Szuprowicz was managing editor of several newsletters on Internet technology applications and a columnist for Financial Sentinel, Moneyworld and other magazines. He also published "Supergrowth Technology USA," an investment newsletter, and consulted with many corporations on technology markets.
He also published hundreds of articles worldwide in journals such as Les Affaires, Atlanta Constitution, Australian Financial News, Barron's Weekly, Bull & Bear, Business South Africa, California Business, Canadian Business, China Business Review, Christian Science Monitor, Computerworld, Denver Post, Dun's Review, Eurofinance, Financial Post, Investment Dealers Digest, IPO Reporter, Japan Economic Journal, National Investment & Finance of India, Newsday, Newsweek International, New Scientist, Oficinas, Singapore Times, Skrzydlata Polska, Usine Nouvelle, Wall Street Microinvestor, Wall Street Transcript, ZeroUno and many others.
He has been a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at international conventions, symposia and conferences. He holds a BS degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London. He also did postgraduate work in journalism and management at Columbia University in New York and UCLA in California.
Szuprowicz is an active member of the Sarasota Fiction Writers Club, British Schools and Universities Club, the Schiehallion Club of Kinloch Rannoch, and was previously a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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