Comparative Analysis of IS Infrastructure of Amazon and Takeda

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Abstract
The report is associated with discussing about the IS infrastructure of two the organizations namely
Amazon and Takeda. In this report a brief overview of two of the organizations has been provided and
along with this a survey has been conducted so as to compare the IS infrastructure that they are
having. In this paper a literature review has also been conducted so as to understand the basic
concepts of IS and compare the IS infrastructure that the organizations are having. Followed by the
comparison is the section in which the issues faced by the IS infrastructure are analysed and are
described in brief along with the reason for choosing those issues.
Introduction
The report mainly discusses about the two organizations namely “Amazon” and Takeda. In the first
section of the report a brief discussion has been put forward regarding the two organizations. This has
been done so as to make the readers understand the various issues or problems or opportunities that
the organization is having. After this the IS planning of both the organizations has been provided after
which a literature review has been conducted along with a comparative analysis. After the completion
of the literature review the issues have been identified. Once the identifications of the issues are
completed certain solutions are provided for both the organizations.
Organisation background
AMAZON
Amazon is one of the American Electronic Commerce and Cloud computing company which is based
in Washington in the City of Seattle. This organization was founded by Jeff Bezos in the year of 1994.
This is one of the tech giant and is also considered to be the Largest Internet retailer in terms of the
revenue and the market capitalization whereas it is the second largest in terms of total sales after
Alibaba group. This organization firstly started its business as an online bookstore whereas later it
expanded to provided other type of services like the streaming and downloading of various MP3,
audiobooks and video files along with other products like electronic, games, and many more. Besides
this the organization is also having separate retail websites for different countries and the countries
mainly includes the United Kingdoms and Ireland, Canada, Spain, Italy, United States, France, India,
China, Turkey, Mexico, Japan and Singapore.
The website of this organization known as the amazon.com is accessed by almost 615 million visitors
annually in the year of 2008. Whereas it attracted almost more than 130 million of customers in the
US website per month by the year of 2016. Besides this huge investments were also made upon the
massive amount of server capacity for the websites mainly for the purpose of handling the excess
traffic at the time of Christmas holiday season that is in the month of December. The results which
gets generated by the Amazons search engine are partially decided by the promotional fees. A review
feature is also provided by Amazon where the users can submit their reviews regarding each products.
The rating of a product is generally done by means of the rating scale that is from one star to five star.
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BCO6653  Management of Information Technology
Fig 1: Homepage of Amazon
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
This is the largest pharmaceutical company present in Japan and in Asia. Besides this the organization
is also listed amongst the top 15 Pharmaceutical companies of world. The company is having almost
more than 30,000 employees all around the world and has been associated with achieving around 16.2
billion USD in revenue in the financial year of 2012. The major focus of the organization includes the
different kind of metabolic disorders, gastroenterology, neurology, and inflammation. Besides this the
organization is also associated with focusing upon the oncology by making use of its independent
subsidiary which is also known as the Takeda Oncology. Headquarter of this organization is located in
the country of Osaka in Chuo-Ku. Along with this the organization is also having its office in Tokyo
in Nihonbashi, Chuo. Fortune Magazine ranked this organization, Takeda Oncology Company as one
of the 100 best companies working for the United States in the year of 2012.
This organization was founded in the year of 1781 on 12th June and was incorporated in the year of
1925 on 29th January. In US the organization first entered in the year of 1977 by creation of a joint
venture with the Abbott Laboratories which is also known as the TAP Pharmaceuticals. The major
places of operation of this organization are based in Japan that is Osaka and Tokyo whereas the United
States Subsidiary of this organization is located in Deerfield in Illinois. Besides this all other Global
Operation conducted outside Japan and the US are situated in Opfikon (Zurich), Switzerland. Along
with this the research and development sites of this company are maintained in Osaka and Shonan in
japan, Brooklyn park, San Diego, Cambridge in United States and many more.
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