B2B is working with distributors, vendors and other businesses. There are two groups of B2B sites: the verticals and horizontals. Verticals are created for particular industry, such as retail. They contain industry news, discussions, articles. Horizontals are sites providing materials, products, goods, or services which are not for the specific industry. They may provide travel, transportation services, office equipment, or maintenance and operating supplies.
These sites work as intermediates between buyers and sellers and connect them facilitating transactions. There are auctions on the sites of such type that allows buyers to bid for products. Also B2B sites have catalog aggregators. They are intermediates between vendors and retailers, who makes content by combining vendors catalogs. B2B sites can also offer project supervising or partnership services to their members. Partnership allows retailers and vendors to work on new products, offer better forecasts, and improve response.
Also buyers have an opportunity to use agents called infomediaries. They are used to allow the participants to be anonymous. I visited new site New Web-site B2B www.ngsimages.com that is based on technology of a hardware and program infrastructure from IBM. A basis of the decision for NGS is software product WebSphere Commerce for Digital Media which allows to carry out search in archive and to get photos through the Internet at observance of all security measures. Besides IBM Content Manager and DB2 are applied to support of storehouse of photos, realizing opportunities of search, access and the analysis for thousand images in archive. The hardware base of the decision will be made with a server eServer pSeries. Besides for realization of some the future projects of information numbering actives of the Geographical society decision IBM will be applied to management of electronic actives in publishing, Networked Interactive Content Access (NICA).
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Case study: The acquisition case of American IBM Personal Computer by the Chinese computer company Lenovo. This article uses SWOT matrix to analysis the post-merger situation of Lenovo’s PC business and try to demonstrate a possible roadmap for future business. On December 8th of 2004, Lenovo announced its merging of IBM’s world personal computer (PC) business which included the ThinkPad line of ...
Also I visited the corporate site of company ELKO computers with b2b-system – www.elko.by. The company ” ELKO computers” represents production of the recognized leaders of the world market – Hewlett Packard, Compaq, Samsung and Phillips. The site elko.by is developed by company Red Graphic Systems. As a basis of its concept the principle of work of company ELKO was taken: ” The goods under the best price in the shortest terms (and it is better from a warehouse) “. Visitors of a site get on the original hi-tech warehouse of computer technics. The warehouse is divided into separate premises depending on the manufacturer and type of technics. Offered navigation is intuitively clear even for unsophisticated users.
Movings of the cursor of the mouse on territory of a warehouse are commented by the engineer-adviser. Considering that a target audience of a site are new dealers and companies-manufacturers of computer technics, on starting page, the navigating blocks conducting on pages with the information for the given categories of visitors are made. The dealers working with ELKO computers, get access to b2b-system: here it is possible to make the order, to observe of stages of his performance, to watch balance, to send reports and track the statistics of reports. The B2b-system is integrated with internal system of the account, it allows to optimize process of interaction with dealers. Sources: www.elko.by www.ngsimages.com Norman Braun Make your on-line business, New York 2003..
