Information System in Enterprises

Running Head: INFORMATION SYSTEM IN ENTERPRISES
Information system in enterprises
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
Information resources..................................................................................................................4
Role of information system in business:..................................................................................4
Porter’s five forces model:.......................................................................................................5
System specification....................................................................................................................7
System description:..................................................................................................................7
Hardware:................................................................................................................................8
Application software:...............................................................................................................9
Operating system:..................................................................................................................10
Network infrastructure:..........................................................................................................11
Pricing:...................................................................................................................................12
Electronic commerce.................................................................................................................14
B2B or B2C:..........................................................................................................................14
E-commerce plans:................................................................................................................14
Emerging trends and technologies.............................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16

Introduction
The chosen company is “Alibaba Group in China," according to the official website of the
(Alibaba.com, 2019), it is one of the innovative and trendy means of the e-commerce market that
has been taking place within the current era of the time. It is one of the world’s biggest e-
commerce company that operates on a large scale. Speaking about the business undertaking of
the concerning brand. Talking about the business undertaking, it supplies the required
commodities and products on a bulk amount that is on a wholesale basis. The brand makes use of
the three main sites they are as follows:
 Taobao
 Tmall
 Alibaba.com
Speaking about the consumer proportion that stays on the side of the brand. There are about
millions of users that are actively undertaking business prospects. The services that the
concerning business provides range from the consumer electronic goods, digital goods, and that
too raw-materials that are essential in the manufacturing process of the other specific
commodities and products.

Figure: Top 10 E-commerce retailers within the region of China, ranked by retail E-
commerce sales share, 2018
Source: (marketing-interactive.com, 2019)
The owner of the Alibaba brand is the professional body who is recognised by the name
“Jack Ma.” His origin is China by nature. Besides being entrepreneurship, Jack-Ma is a speaker
too concerning the dynamic business environment. It has it's headquartered within the region of

China itself. It is one of the globally recognised e-commerce platforms. The CEO is Daniel-
Zhang, an 11-year veteran of the company (Shoutmeloud.com, 2019). Besides above all the
above mentioned criteria, Jack-Ma is one of the professional body within the field of politics,
business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. It was in the early era of the year of 2018 that the
professional body jack-ma announced that he is going to step back as the chairman of the
company. The total assets that stay within the hand of the company outstand to about
CN¥717.124 billion (US$114.326). The company’s net operating income is about CN¥61.412
billion (US$9.791). The company’s operating profit is about CN¥69.314 billion) (Burke et al.,
2016).
Figure: China Public Cloud (IaaS) market share by revenue in H1, 2018
Source: (chinainternetwatch.com, 2019)

Discussion
Information resources
Role of information system in business:
The information system plays a very vital role in carrying out day to day related business
such that each record and that of the business-related tracks are being monitored and maintained
within the information servers by making use of the IT applications. This set of the IT
applications are specially tailor made keeping into view the nature of the business undertakings.
There is a requirement of the professional body to maintain and to keep an eye on these specific
IT applications to make the business-related transaction fall within the right track (Kasemsap et
al., 2018).