ECommerce and the
eShoprevolutionised the way that people sell and buy items. It provides the convenience of tele-shopping without any real need to communicate with a living person. Its is felt that this, and the fact that eCommerce sites drive down the average price of items, are the reasons why the late 90's dotcom bubble gained so much hype, which evidently lead to the bubble-burst in the early 2001. There is difference of opinions with relation to the future of eCommerce. Despite the fact that "eSales" are growing exponentially, some industry observers believe that eCommerce is heading for a fall, but this must be taken into context because of the proliferation of pervasive devices as well as the uptake of broadband technologies around the world. As the Internet and digital economy continue to shift, vendors and service providers will continually try to find unique ways to provide low-cost services to small businesses. One quick example is the numerous web sites offering free development and hosting. For example, the sites offer a web development application in a "wysiwyg" (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) style that allows each person the ability to create their own type of website. Other options include participation in an online marketplace. These mechanisms are roughly designed to simulate a real marketplace that will attract customers due to a shop-at-once mentality instead of surfing the Internet for different goods and services. A fast developing theme among new and old participants in the digital economy is the use of ASPs (application service providers). These service providers allow you to purchase many of the off-the-shelf operating applications that you may use to run your business (finances to human resource management to inventory processing) at a much lower cost and have someone else manage and host the data. This reduces the time and work force necessary to run such types of operations. A final recommendation is the notion of partnering. Finding similar organisations that can share resources and expenses can help you achieve your goals in the digital economy. The key role of the eCommerce is to help streamline business and transaction processes and automate them through the use of the Internet. Sharing the burden of making that happen can help minimize the expense and difficulty and stimulate a potential relationship for furthering business behavior.
The problem with modern eShop solutions is that often they are proprietary software systems which have been developed with certain static specifications in mind. Our software will aim to provide a framework rather than a platform, i.e. a way to implement an eShop instead of a fixed piece of software which acts as eShop.
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