IBMS216FM Case name : eBay Group members : Jeroen Dorst (0849963) Chun-Hou Ip (0850229) Fritzgerald Koeiman (0837237) Martijn Roos (0812417) Discussion questions 1. What are the ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay? The ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay are different from those of an organisation that directly sells their services or products to another organisation or individual. Organisations like eBay are merely a platform
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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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Developing new services at the world’s most successful internetbased company‚ eBay History of eBay eBay started life out as Auctionweb‚ founded by Pierre Omidyar Brainstorming amongst friends resulted in the overall idea By 1997 maintained its impressive growth but it needed additional funding Benchmark provided said funding‚ and more importantly‚ leadership Ms. Whitman was installed as CEO and Mr. Swette as COO First move was to issue an IPO How does it
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MKT 121: Customer Service Question 2: Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of Web-based customer service. The internet has become the new path for providing customer assistance‚ providing a space for searching and shopping. As the technology is develops‚ clear advantages and disadvantages to customer service relationships have presented itself. One of the advantages of a website include increased exposure‚ with the ability reach customers on a global level. The web provides the ability
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Domestic Partner Benefits COMM/215 Employers worldwide are beginning to embrace the idea of a domestic partner employee by reorganizing their benefit packages to include coverage for domestic partners in order to stay competitive and retain current employees. Most often these benefits are an extension of the same ones offered to married employees. The only difference being that a marriage is not a requirement. Many are confused by what exactly a domestic partner is and
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Vision As there is no vision stated in the case‚ hence we come out with a new vision for ebay as follows. EbayVision statement : “ To become the world’s leading e-commerce franchise in the world” In our opinion‚ the vision statement above is very clear that Ebay wants to be a leader in e-commerce world. Mission The Original Mission Statement: “We intend to continue to work toward our mission of creating the world’s leading ecommerce franchise by investing in our core Marketplaces
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segments listed in the case study‚ buyers can also be divided into basically the two types of sellers that list their products to be sold on eBay i.e. the corporate companies and the small businesses and the buyers that purchase the products from these sellers. All these buyers certainly have a strong bargaining power as they are needed to sustain the growth of eBay. Threat of new entrants Google‚ even though it is not in e-tailing or online auction is a potential competitor as it is a strong trusted
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116 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING‚ VOL. 5‚ NO. 1‚ JANUARY-MARCH 2012 Collaborative Testing of Web Services Hong Zhu‚ Member‚ IEEE Computer Society‚ and Yufeng Zhang Abstract—Software testers are confronted with great challenges in testing Web Services (WS) especially when integrating to services owned by other vendors. They must deal with the diversity of implementation techniques used by the other services and to meet a wide range of test requirements. However‚ they are in
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Domestic Partner Benefits Michael Nichols‚ Parnell Davis‚ Chris Bennett‚ Dr. William De Leeuw COMM/215 May 6‚ 2014 Dr. William De Leeuw Domestic Partner Benefits Introduction Businesses that offer domestic partner benefits enjoy a competitive edge and re- enforce diversity and non-discrimination policies and initiatives. Although some companies view themselves as fair‚ they often don’t offer benefits and are in direct violation of their own discrimination policies. There are many reasons
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Case Analysis: EBay Inc. Introduction EBay Inc.‚ situated in San Jose‚ California‚ was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995 as a marketplace for the sale of goods and services powered by a person-to-person on-line trading community. Sellers listed items for sale‚ and buyers bid on items of interested which was automated using EBay’s listing system to arrange items by category and topic. Focused market segment was the collectibles and developed based on a traditional auction house. Since
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