Our topic for this evenings presentation will be a consideration of the things that have to be taken into account when planning and deploying an e-commerce solution for your business. There are several quality factors that have to be taken into consideration for an e-commerce site, over and above those that govern the software and business solution itself. Performance, accessibility, security, reliability and scalability are dependent not only on the software, but the hardware, network infrastructure and systems software as well. If fact, all of the software 'ilities apply equally as well to the hard components.