Ron van RooijMatthijs Steen

Seminar Advances in e-Business12-02-2010

22nd Bled Conference: e-Enablement: Facilitating an Open,

Effective and Representative eSociety.

General topics: e-Health: possibilities and CSF’s Knowledge mobilization: open innovation, e-

Knowledge Global e-Business: challenges, supply chains e-Enabling for disaster recovery

Source: http://domino.fov.uni-mb.si/proceedings

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

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.

Two White papers: ‘Current eBusiness Trends. An Aalpha Information

Systems India Pvt. Ltd. Perspective’ enhance value for customers increase operational efficiencies

‘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 trendsSource:

http://www.aalpha.net/white_papers/Current-eBusiness-Trends.pdf (2006) http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:3668 (2008)

Functionalities: Find new products online A clear overview in nested categories Product info, comparisons, reviews, where to buy

Front-end: website for end-users Back-end: single input required: where can

the spider find the data on the retailer websites?

After this: self-updating spider. Key innovations:

Quick overview of what’s new; self-updating; user-friendly interface (no information overload).

Business model: affiliate model: earn commission when visitor buys

from retailer through our application sell spider harvest to retailers: competition

tracking Market:

People who don’t know what’s hot, trendy, new: family users, non-technical users, elderly.

Competitors: Tweakers.net PriceWatch: not self-updating, no

clear overview. Other product overview applications: need to be

updated manually, no focus on what’s new.

More details in our detailed product definition document