Electronic Commerce Demonstrations and Tutorials

This page provides links to offerings on the web that contain educational material on Electronic Commerce, in the form of demonstrations, plus some Tutorials.

Electronic Commerce Generally

• Edify's Electronic Commerce Demonstration. This demonstration shows a typical interactive commerce application that can be built on top of Edify's Electronic Workforce platform. Throughout this demonstration, Edify software agents will dynamically create Web pages in response to the information you input
• ICN Online Commerce Demo. The pages provide a demonstration of how online commerce works at ICN
• Electric Community's distributed commerce demo using E, "a set of extensions which transform Java into an Internet programming language"
• Connected Web Commerce's demonstration of "its add-on module to the Enterprise Edition of Connected Accounting"
• Simha R. Magal's Electronic Commerce Course
• The Global Commerce Link Net-squared Tutorials

EC Based on the World-Wide Web

• Acorn Internet Commerce Tutorial. This tutorial, which was developed by CommerceNet, is intended to give the user an overall introduction to the World-Wide Web. The tutorial has been modified for ACORN users
• WebCatalog Demo. WebCatalog is an application (CGI) from Pacific Software that runs with your existing Web server software that allows you to perform many complex database and commerce functions. Web sites that use WebCatalog attract attention, are easy to manage, and increase your business possibilities
• NRG Software. This offers a demo of NRG's NetFax product which gateways Web forms to fax recipients
• The Gamelan Java Directory. The Business and Finance section within the Gamelan Java Directory contains many links to sites with Java applets and demos of EC related products. The use of Java requires Netscape 2.0 or higher

Payments

• The First Waco National Bank has a demo which shows the features and services provided by their home banking software. It involves downloading the demo software
• Clive Wrigley's Internet Credit Card Payment Channel demo
• The W3 Consortium's JEPI Demonstrator, which shows how a payer and a payee can negotiate a choice among several alternative payment instruments, methods and channels

Financial Services

• First Union Cash Management. The WEBInVision demo shows off the services offered to WEBInVision customers, including viewing account information, booking transfers, stopping payments, and submitting a credit enquiry

Travel Services

• Netscape's Travelocity demo

Shopping Services

• the Smart Cart Shopping System demonstration (an intensive user of cookies)

Information Technology Services Providers

Many mainstream I.T. companies provide demonstrations. Some of these are only available under controlled conditions, on the company's premises or at Exhibitions; but some are more generally available. The following list is neither complete nor evaluated; and it's in alphabetical order by company-name.

• IBM
• Microsoft
• Netscape
• Oracle
• Premenos
• Sun

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