Today's organizations engage in a variety of e-business activities to enhance production, marketing, customer relations, and communications. It is important to understand the impact of each area ofthe e-business system to maximize a company's operational effectiveness. E-business is more than conducting business via the internet. It involves a multitude of databases, networking technologies, web applications, software, and information systems security measures. For this week's individual project, your manager has asked you to create a report on the benets and challenges of technologies in e-business applications used to collect data and communicate with customers. You can find the definitions of each item and articles in the AIU Library to address each of the following:

 What is a relational database and how does it support customer communications? 

What are the pros and cons of data mining?

Explain the differences between an intranet and the internet.

 How does a LAN support business operations?

 Identify an information security process or application and why it is important to global businesses. 

 Create a summary of e-business benefits and challenges and the potential impact on an organization.