According to Erwin and Blewett (1998), a database system is made up of a database that keeps record of all data which is relates to a given area, a data dictionary that gives details of information about the what is in the database and the database management system that helps in the way the database is being used and managed.
For amazon.com the database will contain information of the orders that customers make, the books and services that the company offers, the prices attached to the services and the books that the company sells and the details of their customers, the departments for shopping that it has, the various features and services.For a database dictionary it contains the information about all the books that Amazon .com sells the information about the services it provides, the electronic mail services amongst others.The database management system helps in the control of the use of services like online shopping, the way stored information is protected from unwanted users, the language settings, and the searching of items to buy within the database among other management services for the database. How Amazon uses both e-business and e-Commerce for B2B and B2C.
As summarized in Chaffey (2006) business to business model, Amazon. Com rents out to other businesses a series of storage services like simple storage service, elastic compute cloud and mechanical truk and the other services that it operates in for them handle the technical parts of the services. Business to consumer model is applied in to sell its books to its customers directly and allowing them to make their shopping online.Word count 278ReferencesDave Chaffey (2006).
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Blewett (1998). Computing for a small business. Juta and company limited.
