ASSIGNMENT#2

University Institute of Information Technology

PMAS Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi
2020

KALSOOM

Reg-No
17-ARID- 1973

QUESTION # 1:
What kinds of applications are described here? What business functions do
they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision
making??
The type of application begins describe are product it apps that include calendar, email, contact,
management, monitoring, and analytical apps, inventory management and applications for
document and presentation customization. Some of the apps that were discussed included the
transformer monitoring, which helps manage gas turbine inventory and analytics, which
monitored sales and performance

QUESTION # 2:
Identify the problems that business in this case study solved by using mobile
digital devices?

Some of the problems that the business in this case study solved by using mobile digital Devices
include increase communication between employees, increase productivity by monitoring
performance and sales prevent attendance issues with the calendar app and the ability to respond
to customer requests

QUESTION # 3:
What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from equipping their
employees with mobile digital devices such as iPhones and iPads?

All business kinds could benefit from equipping their employees with mobile data device some
include retail, services, laws officials, and financial advising companies.

QUESTION # 4:

One company deploying iPhones has said, “The iPhone is not a game changer,
it’s an industry changer. It changes the way that you can interact with your
customers” and “with your suppliers.” Discuss the implications of this
statement?

Mobile digital devices like the iPhone have changed the way you interact with your customers
baselt has made it more convenient to conduct business at any time of the day but has also
decreased the face to face business interactions that occurred prior to the deployment of mobile
digital devices

Task2:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail,

Internet, AI and technology conglomerate founded in 1999 that provides
consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales
services via web portals, as well as electronic paymentservices and shopping
search engines. Write a detail note on the following points.

Company timeline (History):

On 4 April 1999, Jack Ma and his team of 17 friends and students founded Alibaba.com, a China-
based B2B marketplace site, in his Hangzhou apartment. In October 1999, Alibaba received a
US$25 million investment from Goldman Sachs and Softbank. Alibaba.com was expected to
improve the domestic e-commerce market and perfect an E-Commerce platform for Chinese
enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs to help export Chinese products
to the global market as well as address World Trade Organization (WTO) challenges. In 2002,
Alibaba.com became profitable three years after launch. Ma wanted to improve the global e-
commerce system, so from 2003 onward, Alibaba launched Taobao Marketplace, Alipay,
Alimama.com, and Lynx When eBay announced its expansion into China in 2003, Ma viewed the
American company as a foreign competitor and rejected eBay's buyout of Alibaba's
subsidiary Taobao. Through applying existing technologies and gaining trust in the Chinese e-
commerce market, as well as expanding through dominating the market at a loss before making a
return on additional services, Alibaba's subsidiaries outperformed eBay in the Chinese e-
commerce market, claiming a growing percentage of consumers from eBay. Alibaba subsidiary
Taobao would later force eBay out of the Chinese market, with eBay closing its unprofitable
China Web unit, though the two companies would break even six years later

Companies and affiliated entities:

In 1999, Jack Ma launched the primary business of Alibaba, Alibaba.com, while working as an
English teacher in Hangzhou. Alibaba.com later became the world's largest online B2B
trading platform for small businesses as of 2014 Alibaba.com has three main services: the English
language portal Alibaba.com, which handles sales between importers and exporters from more
than 240 countries and regions, the Chinese portal 1688.com, which manages domestic B2B trade
in China, and transaction-based retail website AliExpress.com which allows smaller buyers to buy
small quantities of goods at wholesale prices. Alibaba.com went public at the Hong Kong Stock
Exchange in 2007, and was delisted again in 2012. In 2013, 1688.com launched a direct channel
that was responsible for $30 million in daily transaction value. In 2003, Alibaba launched Taobao
Marketplace offering a variety of products for retail sale. Taobao grew to become China's
largest C2C online shopping platform and later became the second most visited web site in China,

Total Capital
according to Alexa Internet Taobao's growth was attributed to offering free registration and
commission-free transactions using a free third-party payment platform. Advertising made up 75
percent of the company's total revenue, allowing it to break even in 2009. In 2010, was
estimated to be ¥1.5 billion (US$235.7 million), which was only about 0.4 percent of their total
sales figure of ¥400 billion (US$62.9 billion) that year, way below the industry average of 2
percent, according to I Research estimates. According to Zhang Yu, the director of Taobao,
between 2011 and 2013, the number of stores on Taobao with annual sales under ¥100 thousand
increased by 60%; the number of stores with sales between ¥10 thousand and ¥1 million increased
by 30%, and the number of stores with sales over ¥1 million increased by 33%.

Cloud computing services:

In conjunction with the company's 10th anniversary, Alibaba launched Alibaba Cloud in
September 2009, aiming to build a cloud computing service platform, including e-commerce data
mining, e-commerce data processing, and data customization. It has R&D centers and
operators in Hangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Silicon Valley and Dubai. In July 2014,
Alibaba Cloud entered into a partnership deal with In spur. Alibaba Cloud is the largest high-end
cloud computing company in China. In 2009, Alibaba acquired HI China, the largest domain
registration service and web hosting Service Company in China, and built it into Alibaba
Cloud.On 28 July 2011, Alibaba Cloud released AliOS (formerly Yun OS and Aliyun OS), a
Linux distribution designed for mobile devices. In the 2017 Computing Conference in
Hangzhou,Alibaba launched AliGenie, a China-based open-platform intelligent personal assistant.
It is currently used in the Tmall Genie smart speaker. On July 27, 2019, Alibaba unveiled a 64- bit
RISC-V processor called the XuanTie 910 (Black Iron 910). It is a 12 nm 16-core with aclockrate
of 2.5 GHz, and was designed by Alibaba's subsidiary T-Head (also known as Pingtouge).
Alibaba claim the Xuantie 910 is up to 40% faster than other RISC-V cores and is capable of 7.1
Caremark/MHz On 25 September 2019, Alibaba announced an AI accelerator called the Hanging
800. The Hanging 800 contains 17 billion transistors built with a 12 nm process and was designed
by T-Head and DAMO Academy (Alibaba's research arm).Alibaba claim it is capable of
78,563 images per second (IPS) inference and 500 IPS/W in ResNet-50. The Hanging 800 will be
available to be rented on Alibaba Cloud.