Report about the E-Commerce

Question: Write a report to identify as utilization of e-commerce for the Grey Take organization. Answer: 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview Grey Take is a software development company from Melbourne Australia. They provide the software solution for their customers. In this report, the electronic commerce consultant is hired to identify the present business structure and developed it into an electronic commerce (E-Commerce) (Greyteak.com.au, 2016). This report includes the aim and object of this paper, the overview of Grey Take website, features of the Grey Take website, positive and negative aspect of the Grey Take site. Moreover, the consultant includes the e-commerce implementation strategy and the software and hardware requirement for the new e-commerce strategy with this report (Turban et al. 2015). 1.2 Aim The main aim of this project is given bellow: To identify the present business stage To identify the hardware and software requirements To determine the features of the existing website To determine the positive aspect of the website To determine the negative aspect of the website To determine the e-commerce implementation strategy To learn the software and hardware requirement for the e-commerce website 2 Overview and description of the website Grey Take is a software development company based in Melbourne Australia. They provide custom technology solutions for a wider range of businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals alike. Their services range from backend website development and Systems development to Enterprise software systems design development. They developed state of the art web based management systems for clients. Therefore, the clients have all the tools they need to run their business, hassle-free (Greyteak.com.au, 2016). 3 Main Features of the website Key features of Grey Take web site are given bellow: Content: -- content of the Grey Take web site is well structure which will help the customers to find anything from the site. The topics are clearly level and break into the small paragraph. The services of Grey Take are mentioned properly, and clients can view or browse these services quickly (Greyteak.com.au, 2016). Functionality: -- All the component of the Grey Take website is work correctly and promptly. Across the spectrum, everything is work as expected, including the registration form, login page, site content, Service information, contact form, and hyperlinks (Greyteak.com.au, 2016). Usability: -- Usability is one of the major features of a website. The Grey take site is easy to navigate, read, and understand. The good design and well-structured content of website attract the visitors (Greyteak.com.au, 2016). 4 Positive and negative aspect of the website 4.1 Positive aspect The positive aspects are: Customers can browse the services as per their needed Customers can register Customers can make contact with the organization. All the service information is provided accordingly 4.2 Negative Aspect Negative aspects are: Lake of organizational information is given on this website. Registration form is not properly designed Previous works of Grey Take is not provided on this website. Most of the customers want are looking for previous works details before choosing any services. The internet site of Grey Take from Melbourne Australia (https://www.greyteak.com.au/), this website probably should be on the stage of exposure as this website is used the electronic brochure to provide the information about their services (Wang, Li and Wang 2015). Interaction with the site is passive. In this stage, the website does not contribute much to the trading or other business information of the organization. Hardware requirement Item Web server Name HP ML10 G8 Server RAM 4 GB Processor 3.1 GHz Size 1000 GB Quantity 1 Price $841 Software Requirement Software Name Price Windows server 2012 R2 $10098.01 WinScp Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 $499 E-Commerce Implementation Strategy for Grey Take (https://www.greyteak.com.au/) Organization Electronic commerce or e-commerce provides three different types of services. Those are business to business, business to consumer, consumer to consumer. In this scenario, the business to business services should be considered to implement an e-commerce (Agarwal 2015). In business to business e-commerce is done by doing business with two different business organizations. The Grey Take business organization provide many different types of business solutions such as enterprise software development, software system design, application and system management, advance website development, reliable website maintenance and much more. The Grey Take organization's current business stage is exposure stage which can be easily transformed into the e-commerce (Fox 2012). The present organization has their business strategy which is a part of the e-commerce evaluation. According to Andam (2014), "Corporate strategy is the pattern of primary objectives, purpose, or goals and essential policies or pl ans for achieving those goals, stated in such a kind of company it is or is to be." The implementation of e-business strategy can affect the present business strategy, those are: A move from selling local agents to selling directly. Expansion into new geographical markets where the company previously did not operate. A decision to close down the present system and serve the customers online (Sandberg 2014). Steps of E-Commerce implementation Figure 1: E-Commerce Implementation Strategy (Source: Created by author) The processes of e-commerce implementation are Business identification Identify the present business environment Determine the current business capabilities Identify the current business technology Identify the existing business strategy Evaluate all business identification and formulate the strategy Identify the proper e-commerce strategy Create a proper e-commerce plan Implement this plan into the business Evaluate the implemented strategy The technical implementation approach depends on the business objectives, requirements, and technologies (Haron 2016). The first stage is to find the present business environment to apply the e-commerce for the present business; the first thing needs to consider that is the environment of the present business and the current business strategy. The Grey Take provide many different types of services for their customers (Sila 2013). Their present website only provides the different type of service information and client registration system. This system can be turned into the e-commerce strategy. After implementing the e-commerce strategy, they can sell their service via online. The e-commerce implementation process is a continues process (Mazzarol 2015). When the system needs to develop, they can repeat this application process. The first phase is updated stage, the second stage is revised stage, and the third stage is the improve stage. Hardware requirement Item Web server Name HP ML10 G8 Server RAM 4 GB Processor 3.1 GHz Size 1000 GB Quantity 1 Price $841 Software Requirement Software Name Price Windows server 2012 R2 $10098.01 WinScp Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 $499 Conclusion The organization Grey Take is a Grey Take (https://www.greyteak.com.au/) is a software development company from Melbourne Australia. They provide the software solution for their customers. This report is identified as utilization of e-commerce for the Grey Take organization. The existing business strategy is at the exposure stage. They want to turn their current system into the e-commerce stage. Before e-commerce implementation, the functionality of the website, positive and negative aspect of the site, and present business strategy is identified. After identified all the things the e-commerce application process was started. The implemented e-commerce strategy is a perfect solution for the Grey Take organization. References Agarwal, D., 2015. Web Personalization and Recommendation Model for Trust in Ecommerce Websites from an Indian Perspective. Andam, Z.R., 2014. E-Commerce and e-Business. Fox, M.S., 2012, August. Managing ecommerce service failures: incorporating validity, provenance and trust from the semantic web. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce (pp. 91-94). 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