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e-Business trends and application idea. Ron van Rooij Matthijs Steen Seminar Advances in e-Business 12-02-2010. Current e-Business trends 1/3. 22nd Bled Conference: e-Enablement : Facilitating an Open, Effective and Representative eSociety . General topics:
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e-Business trends and applicationidea Ron van Rooij Matthijs Steen Seminar Advances in e-Business 12-02-2010
Currente-Business trends 1/3 • 22nd Bled Conference: • e-Enablement: Facilitating an Open, Effective and Representative eSociety. • General topics: • e-Health: possibilities and CSF’s • Knowledgemobilization: open innovation, e-Knowledge • Global e-Business: challenges, supplychains • e-Enablingfor disaster recovery Source: http://domino.fov.uni-mb.si/proceedings
Currente-Business trends 2/3 • Proceedings ECIS 2009 (Verona, Italy): • Information systems in a globalising world: challenges, ethics and practices. • General topics: • e-Health • SOA • e-Government • Web 2.0 • Knowledge mobilization: open innovation, open source • Green IT • Social networking / collaboration Source: http://www.ecis2009.it/allegati/ecis2009_proceedings_public.pdf
Remarks • Some overlap between Bled Conference and ECIS 2009: • e-Health • Knowledge management • The general term e-Business is not hot anymore. • However, derived terms are hot: e-Anything.
Currente-Business trends 3/3 • Two White papers: • ‘CurrenteBusinessTrends. AnAalphaInformation Systems India Pvt. Ltd. Perspective’ • enhancevalueforcustomers • increaseoperationalefficiencies • ‘What drives e-business trends?’ • trends: • customer oriented trends: • personalize and customize, seamless service • service digitization • from paper based to a real-time digital information business model • customers as trends to focus on, as well as drivers behind these trends Source: • http://www.aalpha.net/white_papers/Current-eBusiness-Trends.pdf (2006) • http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:3668 (2008)
Ouridea: ProductSpider (1/2) • Functionalities: • Findnewproducts online • A clearoverview in nestedcategories • Product info, comparisons, reviews, where to buy • Front-end: website forend-users • Back-end: single input required: wherecan the spider find the data on the retailer websites? • Afterthis: self-updating spider. • Keyinnovations: • Quickoverview of what’snew; self-updating; user-friendly interface (noinformationoverload).
Ouridea: ProductSpider (2/2) • Business model: • affiliate model: earncommissionwhenvisitorbuysfromretailerthroughourapplication • sell spider harvest to retailers: competitiontracking • Market: • Peoplewhodon’tknowwhat’s hot, trendy, new: familyusers, non-technicalusers, elderly. • Competitors: • Tweakers.netPriceWatch: notself-updating, noclearoverview. • Other product overviewapplications: need to beupdatedmanually, no focus onwhat’snew. More details in ourdetailed product definition document