Agware Company Analysis: Technology Utilization and Recommendations

This report provides an analysis of Agware, Inc., focusing on its business operations, technologies, and competitive strategies. The report begins with an overview of Agware, highlighting its history and core business of providing agricultural appraisal software. It then delves into Porter's Five Forces analysis to assess the company's competitive position in the market. The analysis examines the intensity of rivalry, bargaining power of customers and suppliers, the threat of substitutes, and the threat of new entrants. The report then explores the technologies utilized by Agware, specifically Agware Datalog and ClickFORMS, describing their functionalities and integration. Finally, the report reflects on how these technologies could be better utilized by the business, providing recommendations for enhanced efficiency and competitive advantage, referencing academic sources to support the analysis.

Running Head: AGWARE COMPANY ANALYSIS
Agware Company Analysis
Angie Bringewatt
Chadron State College

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About the Organization Agware and their Operation
Agware, Inc. was started in the year 1990 and currently as per the operational factors that
are associated with the respective organization in the market, they are considered to be the owner
of UAAR trademark, which is federally registered and other several forms that are related to the
system of UAAR and UCRR, which is based on a copyrighted version and the Standard
Appraisal Review Report (SARR).
According to the organization’s market functioning based on the current era the software
which is based on an agricultural appraisal of the organization Agware includes both sales
database and a component, which is based on the function of report processing (Abrahamsson et
al., 2017). Due to certain application associated with the respective organizations operations they
are basically known to the market as AgWare Software.
As compared to the functional prospective related to the organizational functioning in the
competitive market, the key motive and objective of the organization under these respective
aspects is to maintain and develop an easily usable, efficient tool in order to avail an adaptive
processing platform for agricultural appraisals.
Agware generally has in place advanced software based on the process of rural appraisal,
which consists of two major integrated components including several processing units and
components that are related to the system of Datalog and ClickFORMS (Giardino et al., 2015).
The organization uses Datalog for the purpose of analyzing and managing comparable
sales. On the other hand, ClickFORMS generates the appraisal reports that generally features the
formats that are related to Uniform Country Residential Report (UCRR) and Uniform

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Agricultural Appraisal Report (UAAR). This also involves the function of word processing done
on a narrative style along with more than 200+ forms (Calefato et al., 2018).
Porters Five Force Analysis of Agware
According to the current competitive performance of Agware in the market, it is
important for them to develop strong and appropriate responses to manage the impacts that are
associated with the external factors identified under the Porters Five Force Analysis. Porters Five
Force analysis of Agware Inc is performed below.
 In the first part, certain features that are related to the competitive rivalry of the company
in the market generally face high force. The key reason behind the respective part can be
that, in the current era there is huge firms that play a competitive part under the software
industries (Idri, Azzahra Amazal & Abran, 2015). The other major reason for Agware
competitive rivalry is the fact that in the market the organization generally has switching
cost on a moderate basis since they come under the startup software companies
(Abrahamsson et al., 2017).
 The customer bargaining power of the organization Agware is considered to be a low
force in the market. Under this respective part, it can be stated that the company in the
market have least availability of substitutes where the information system of the company
is strong in the market (Vijayasarathy & Butler, 2015).
 Bargaining power associated with the suppliers of the company faces medium force
compared to the performance of their competitors in the market performance. It can be
stated that, several aspects that are related to the company’s size, population of suppliers
and their overall supply is on a moderate basis (Calefato et al., 2018).

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 Threat factor associated with the company’s substitutes generally faces low force in the
market compared to other organizations since the organization is involved on a startup
business where the performance and availability of substitutes of the company is weak in
the market (Vijayasarathy & Butler, 2015)
 Threat factor related to the new entrants for the organization generally faces medium
affect in their market operations where under this respective part the cost associated with
the business of the company is moderate in the market (Brhel et al., 2015). It is important
for them to give more emphasis on the organizations brand development factors in order
to gain adaptive mode of competitive advantage in the market.
Technology used by the Company
According to the competitive strategies adopted by the organization Agware under the
area of remaining more sustainable and competitive in the market, some of the two major
integrated technologies opted by the organization to function in the market are associated with
Agware Datalog and Agware ClickFORMS (Vijayasarathy & Butler, 2015).
Agware Datalog
Agware Datalog is used to create reports based on market trends through the process of
organizing, analyzing and managing the system of comparable sales. This software includes
certain facilities where the documents including maps and images can be attached and
embedded. It helps in creating complex sale maps. The other key feature available under the
Datalog application of the company is where they have numerous file sharing options compared
to other software.
Agware ClickFORMS

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The core function associated with the respective software application is under the area of
sending and creating pdf’s in a more accessible and easiest manner. Templates are customized
automatically where this also uses default template applications to operate with. This consists of
more than 200 forms which are generally selected from numerous available formats.
Some of the major Changes Introduced by Agware
In this respective part the first and foremost part of change introduced by the organization
generally involves, they added some key ability factor for business admins where they can easily
get access and will be able to delete the completed appraisals. Even if there is no sale date, this
avails the system of manual sales to be used for the operation. Instead of using the path that is
associated with hardcoded default, they fixed a viewer log for the purpose of using configured
path based on json basis. Under the valuation page several innovative improvement grids are
currently added.

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References
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Giardino, C., Paternoster, N., Unterkalmsteiner, M., Gorschek, T., & Abrahamsson, P. (2015).
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Calefato, F., Lanubile, F., Maiorano, F., & Novielli, N. (2018). Sentiment polarity detection for
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