XBIS XBIS-219 9/19/2010 Assignment: Amazon Evolution The strategy that Amazon is using to stay successful is by offering more than just the opportunity for consumers to purchase books. By offering a storage device option‚ consumers are able to purchase storage space and only pay for what they use rather than pay extra for a service or space not being used. Much like Google and Microsoft‚ Amazon is trying to move away from their basic services and really get more engaged with additional consumers
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R. Akkiraju‚ J. Farrell‚ J.Miller‚ M. Nagarajan‚ M. Schmidt‚ A. Sheth‚ K. Verma‚ "Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S‚" A joint UGA-IBM Technical Note‚ version 1.0‚ April 18‚ 2005. http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/METEOR-S/WSDL-S Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S Technical Note Version 1.0 April‚ 2005 Authors (alphabetically): Rama Akkiraju‚ IBM Research Joel Farrell‚ IBM Software Group John Miller‚ LSDIS Lab‚ University of Georgia Meenakshi Nagarajan‚ LSDIS Lab‚ University of Georgia Marc-Thomas
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Amazon Inc. is a multinational company‚ which its headquarter is in Seattle‚ Washington. It is an online retailer that opened its virtual businesses on the web in July 1995 and primarily sells products over its online marketplace and offers millions of other goods and services through its companies. Amazon.com is well known in 11 countries and ships internationally especially in APO address to cater to the military population‚ which has expanded its creativity‚ influence‚ and growth. Amazon’s founder
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Amazon: From Book Seller to Service Provider 1. Amazon’s strategy is to maintain its role as an online retailer while diversifying its product and service line.[1] While many people still see Amazon only as an online book retailer‚ this is no longer true. Amazon is now best described as a technology retailer. Capitalizing on its large and reliable Internet infrastructure‚ Amazon Web Services now include the following: Simple Storage Service (S3)‚ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)‚ SimpleDB‚ CloudFront
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Analyze Amazon and Walmart.com using The Value Chain and Competitive forces Models 2.1 Amazon.com 2.1.1 Amazon’s Value Chain Analysis 2.1.1.1 Primary Activities 2.1.1.1.1 Inbound Logistics Amazon has the advantage of avoiding the overhead and carrying large amounts of inventory because it orders the books from the distributors. They provide money and contracts to prospective authors and decide how many copies of a book to print. Typically a first run printing for a book varies from 5
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1. Introduction 1.1 Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a modern computing paradigm that delivers resources such as processing‚ storage‚ network and software are abstractions that are provided as services over the Internet in a remotely accessible fashion. Figure 1 - The Cloud Computing Layered Model. The following definition of cloud computing has been developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
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WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Various Constraints and Classes of Service for Web Services Vladimir Tosic‚ Bernard Pagurek‚ Kruti Patel Research Report OCIECE-02-06 November 2002 WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Various Constraints and Classes of Service for Web Services Vladimir Tosic‚ Bernard Pagurek‚ Kruti Patel Department of Systems and Computer Engineering‚ Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa‚ ON‚ K1V 6L8‚ CANADA +1 (613) 520-2600
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING‚ VOL. 5‚ NO. 1‚ JANUARY-MARCH 2012 33 Bootstrapping Ontologies for Web Services Aviv Segev‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Quan Z. Sheng‚ Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Ontologies have become the de-facto modeling tool of choice‚ employed in many applications and prominently in the semantic web. Nevertheless‚ ontology construction remains a daunting task. Ontological bootstrapping‚ which aims at automatically generating concepts and their relations in a given domain
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RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL HIGHER NATIONAL IN COMPUTING Dominic Thompson (STU24049‚ onlythompson@hotmail.com) DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA Advance Business Information Technology Project- Edexcel Martin Beaver 2010 0 E-Student Management System Abstract It is not a surprise that many learning institutions in Nigeria‚ are still keeping records in files and gather them in filling cabinets where the accumulate dust
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1.1.2 Types of Services The cloud computing categories as follows [7]. • Software as a service (SaaS) applications are intended for end-users‚ delivered over the network. • Platform as a service (PaaS) is the set of tools and services developed to perform coding and organizing the applications. • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the softwareandhardware that commands all servers‚ storage‚ networks and operating systems. The different types of services described in the Figure 1.2‚ description
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