Criteria B second part

The IT background of the issue:
The widespread use of the internet has caused online shopping to be extremely demanding. Online shopping requires many components. Internet is a worldwide network of interconnected computers that allow sharing information from different websites. Using a network, people are able to buy items by using internet, but a browser is needed. A browser is a software program that allows people to share information and access to different kinds of websites. After using a browser the information that it’s given in an online shopping website by the users is sent in codes, and this process is called encryption. This coded information goes to the data based, which allows the seller to read the coded information and fill the order of the customer. The company recognizes what the consumer wants, and sends the product via the distributors.

Online shopping are expected to grow more than 25% over all (Richtel,2007) whilst a survey reported that 37% of the population (Kontzer, 2005) uses online retails as an opp5). Diagram 1 is an example of what percentage of the population buys or plans to buy gifts online. This percentage will increase during this year, but in some sectors more than others.


Most of the online shops as for example shop.org/bitzrate, their sales dastrically increased by 77%, and that near 52 million people are expected to use any kind of website (Kontzer,2005) that offers online sales in order to buy different items. In addition a Jupiter Research says that the growth rate of online shopping has peaked and therefore the growth rate will be slower to a 9% in this year (Tedeshi, 2007).