Labels:text | diagram OCR: Merchant Bank Settlement Process Credit Card Customer Bark Networks 7 Payment Infrastructure The virtual intermediary interfaces directly and securely to the payment infrastructure, so it handies credit-card authorization and settlement for some Widgets automatically. 8 Payment Secure Acme Widgets receives Oracle Connections revenuc. Secure Connections Application Server JServer 6 Order 2 Virtual Catalog Creation A customer submits order acme Widgets moves its product and payment information, catalog and other content to The inventory, shipping, and database-driven model. other routines kick in $ = automatically. 3 E-mail The Virtual Intermediary OracleBi Order Screen O The virtual intermediary offers Web site hosting, billing data capture and analysis, interfaces Web Site Buyer 4 to credit-card authorization and A customer enters Acme Widget's ACME settlement, and many other URL in a Web browser. Regardless Bricks and-Mortar Acme Widgets services, such as e mail, logistics management, and of where a site is physically hosted, the Intemet platform dynamically customer support. generates Acme Widgets" Web 1 Acme Widgets site content. Acme Widgets wants to be an Virtual Intermediary cbusiness but realizes it's not strategic to handle the click-and- mostar infrastructure itself, so Delivery the company outsources some The customer receives the widget. portions of infrastructure to a virtual intermediary. Catalog Screen 5 24 x 7 x 355 Shop A customer views Acme's product catalog for a specific widget.