Business Information Systems Report: AR/VR Opportunities for Smart PLC

This report delves into the application of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) within the retail sector, specifically focusing on Smart PLC, a food and beverage company. It examines the characteristics and global significance of AR/VR, evaluating the organizational opportunities and challenges they present. The report outlines Smart PLC's business, its 'Smartchoice' app, and its Business Information Systems (BIS) solution, including performance objectives. Proposals are made to evaluate cost/value exchange, build positive User Experience (UX) through data visualization, and design interactive User Interface (UI) elements to encourage exploration and promote positive business outcomes. The analysis includes an explanation of the business strategy and how the application of these proposals will contribute to it. Finally, the report justifies the choices made for the proposed BIS solution using relevant theory and explains how those theories were applied.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Characteristics and global significance of AR/VR......................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation of organizational opportunities and challenges posed by AR/VR............................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
Overview of your business, the app, the BIS solution and performance objectives...................4
Proposals to evaluate the cost/value exchange............................................................................4
Proposals to build and model positive UX (User Experience) data visualization.......................5
Proposals to design two to three interactive elements (UI) that encourage exploration and
promote positive business outcomes...........................................................................................6
Explanation of business strategy and analysis of ways in which application of proposals will
contribute to the business strategy...............................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
Explanation of theory used to justify the choices made for your proposed business information
solution and ways in which those theories were applied.............................................................7
COCLUSION..................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INRODUCTION
Business Information Systems can be understood as highly essential aspect within recent
time, based upon structured functional growth goals for enhanced expertise technical
perspectives dynamically. Within recent time period globally technology advancement further
adds to company long term value, diversely enhancing competitive strengthened rise and to
enhance long term optimized efficacy goals. Smart Plc, being retail company sells food and
beverages having varied range of food and cuisine services within business life cycle where
partnership with new online delivery systems has been optimized. The report will he analyzing
key characteristics ad global significance related to Augmented reality and virtual reality
concerns, enhancing scope towards identifying opportunities and challenges for implementation.
Study will further productively head competent focus towards structured ideologies toward
evaluating cost in business customer’s engagement aspects, enhancing overall productive
diversification. Research will also significantly shed light on models, best competitive strategies
and levels pertaining towards usage of high scale competences for engaging among customers
diversely.
TASK 1
Characteristics and global significance of AR/VR
The global significance of augmented reality and virtual reality holds high importance
within recent time among companies in dynamic business world, where organizational
opportunities can be expanded variedly. Smart PLC, for adopting AR/VR need to prioritize
significance analysis dynamically and further effectively summarize high scale advancement
parameters rapidly. With high competitive digital commercialization, virtual reality demand
among services is rising for fastening up revamping new scope paradigms dynamically within
longer business run. It also heads on stronger focus for strengthened efficacy determinants,
enhancing operative innovation rapidly and to strengthen up channels for larger profits and
engaged strong brand name (Wu, Yu and Gu, 2020).
Characteristics and global significance of AR
 It is technology that combines computer generated images on screen with real object,
incorporating basic three features that are combination of real and virtual words, real time
interaction and accurate 3D registration of virtual real objects variedly. Globally
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augmented reality in technology advancement holds high significance within recent time,
based on high quality services engagement for increased revenue parameters variedly.
 SMART PLC, being one of the fastest growing retail company has high scope to fast
grow in selling food and beverages variedly, which significantly heads on high focus on
evolving fast internet based digital services. Augmented reality enhances virtual reality
scope among fast delivery of services for company, where the main scope to enhance
speed and customer satisfaction is attained.
 Smart Plc, by adopting global significance of Artificial Intelligence will be able to further
pertain significant rise diversely towards technical innovation competently for fastened
rise actively which further adds to brand value. Also productive competent engagement
among stakeholders within retail services engagement, holds high inclusive role to
extensively invest on new technologies parameters rapidly.
 Employers can create an exact simulation of their operations with the equipment’s in
augmented and virtual reality aspects, where the expertise through the simulation
enhances expertise diversely. Smart PLC enhances scope to extensively invest on further
significant aspects, which further strengthens quest rise actively based on accurate
fundamentals for strengthened working vision actively (Budi and et.al, 2021).
TASK 2
Evaluation of organizational opportunities and challenges posed by AR/VR
The augmented and virtual reality further significantly heads on high scope for company
to idealise new opportunities and challenges respectively, where Smart PLC company is
currently based on second stage within business life cycle parameters. The company has made
international positioning for developing new onlinedelivery software, where there are varied
parameters correlaed to augmened and virtual reality working goals. Smart PLC being one of the
most productive hospitality, leisure company in food and beverages, aims to offer fastest
delivery of services among customers based on usage of technology automation goals.
Opportunities of Augmented and virtual reality:
 Smart PLC, online food delivery app has high scope to significantly enhance services by
taking up augmented and virtual reality aspects innovatively where services are widely
expanded rapidly as per new significant working scenarios (Xu and et.al, 2021) There is
further high scope to invest strategically, where augmented and virtual reality brings on
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implementation rise in digital expertise technically which adds to company productive
brand goodwill. It can be also understood that customer’s services are also potentially
synchronized, with high digital functional paradigms rapidly for higher efficacy
competencies variedly.
 Smart PLC, by implementation of augmented virtual reality will be able to functionally
strengthen up channelize efficacy paradigms dynamically which functionally holds high
scale importance variedly. There is less physical contact among services, where
employees and customer’s services are done in planned signification for higher
competent synergy evocatively towards determinants correlated rapidly. Virtual reality
and automation in services have to be revamped in industry, for expertise directive goals
for rapid engagement as per strategic customer advancement paradigms.
 There is also high demand in recent time period of Covid pandemic, where hospitality
and food sector functions scope plays strong role by integrating virtual technology and
augmented reality for fastening of services variedly (Akdere, Acheson-Clair and Jiang,
2021). Smart PLC aims to fasten up higher productive goodwill domains creatively,
extensively invest on best paradigms dynamically for attaining customer’s goodwill.
Virtual reality has uplifted working parameters significantly in aspect of company
engagement, as competitive industry enhances scope extensively.
Challenges of Augmented and Virtual reality
 There is high risk in implementation of new advanced potential parameters when
extending Virtual reality where augmented automation advancement services in food
delivery, are high in risk factors for new finance resources to be expanded. With
hectic investments, there is also risk of failure attached for company to further rapidly
expand key connective working directions rapidly. Also the varied new pathways have to
be synchronized, ideally investigated for longer business growth parameters which
further also holds critical importance.
 Augmented and virtual reality further holds crucial risk and strategic investment risk for
training employee’s new strategies, where risk factors need to be identified. New
pathways of virtual technology automation in services demands company to head on
rapid structure focus on bringing rapid transformation. For gaining consumer’s
confidence, new strengthened rise on larger vision oriented parameters has to be idealized
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where company need to head on high focus for gaining overall productivity. Acceptance
and srategic aedvancement comes with risk for long term productivioty to be invested,
which further demands company to keenly head on wider strateic aspects fundamentally.
 There is also potential risk factor evolved on expanded ne investments risk pertainig
towards digital platforms, external fatcors further holds high scale risk significantly for
bringing higher cost attained as outputs. Long term training orocedures and new technical
expertise on demand further significantly, inclines riks on primitive high demand oriented
shift factors to be progressed on rapidly for gaining stronger outputs (Abich and et.al,
2021).
From the above analysed factors analysed based on Adantages and disadvanagaes pertaining
towards implementation of augmented and virtual reality concepts, it has been found that Smart
Plc has strong scope for further bringing new technologies diversely.
TASK 3
Overview of your business, the app, the BIS solution and performance objectives
Smart PLC is a retail sector organization that sell food and beverages. Recently they have
made partnership with micro focus international for development of an online delivery software.
They have developed an application named ‘Smartchoice’ which is a food and beverage
application tat provide 24*7 delivery, have various payment options cloud- based point of sales
backend system, restaurant management dashboard, sales management, AI based feedback
system. Performance objectives of this system are: provide rich experience to customers,
increase sales by15% and overall profitability can be enhanced.
Proposals to evaluate the cost/value exchange
Cost and value exchange is one of the most important things within business (Tallon,
Mooney and Duddek, 2020). When a customer purchases a product, value of product is delivered
in exchange to customers for its price, it is known as cost/ value exchange. Cost/ value exchange
for Smart PLC can be improved using augmented reality and virtuality reality. Customers who
use online applications prefer purchasing from organizations that provide online shopping or
purchasing facilities. Smart PLC will be providing online purchasing and home delivery facility
to customers where they can place their food and beverages order online through their
application and for cost of product in exchange they will get fast delivery, high quality products,
excellent online purchasing experience. This cost/ value exchange of customers can be enhaced
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using AR/ VR. Augmented reality and virtual reality are one of those technologies that helps in
bridging gap between digital and physical word. Today augmented reality and virtual reality are
being used within each and every business or different purposes. AR uses real world settings and
help users to control their presence in real world whereas virtual reality is completely virtual and
help users in experiencing a virtual environment completely controlled by the system.
If Smart PLC use 3D AR technology in online shopping within their Smartchoice
application then it would directly help in enhancing overall experience of customers in shopping
and would enhance value exchange. This can directly help in enhancing value exchange of
customers and would enhance conversion rate by 40 percent. Including AR technology in
Smartchoice application would help in enhancing confidence level of customers increase their
post-purchase satisfaction. AI based feedback system would also be included within the system
so that rapid response to feedback of customers can be provided.
Proposals to build and model positive UX (User Experience) data visualization
Data visualization is one of the most important things to be focused upon by business as
it helps in making reading, information interruption much easier (Lee, Park and Song, 2019). Not
only this, it can be used by leaders of SMART PLC as an option to evaluate experience of users
of their in one application and can work upon enhancing their overall experience. Incorporation
of data visualization can directly help in developing positive experience of users of Smartchoice
application that can directly help management in managing positive insight to users and help
employees to manage positive experience of users of application. Smart PLC can use BI
application for data visualisation where 3 D cart, graphs will be developed using users data
including their purchases, preferences etc. Adoption of appropriate BI data visualization tool will
directly help Smart PLC in representing their data visually in simple format. Keeping data in
simple format will help leaders to use this data for bringing innovation within their products and
applications owned or used by them.
Smart PLC can use Tableau as a data visualization tool. This tool will directly help
leaders to self- visualize their data, extract useful information that can be used by them in
bringing changes within their BIS solution for developing positive user experience. Tableau can
be used by leaders, a management and employees for visualizing data for development of
positive user experience. Leaders can use it to evaluate monthly figures using 3D graphs in order
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to take important decisions. Management can use this tool for creating reports, analysing and
evaluating data in order to keep application up to date.
Proposals to design two to three interactive elements (UI) that encourage exploration and
promote positive business outcomes
Virtual reality and augmented reality can be used for Smart PLC busies information
system (Regazzoni, Rizzi and Vitali, 2018). There are various kinds of AR/VR requirements that
can help them in gaining positive business outcomes and these requirements can be included
within interactive elements of user interface. VR can be used and incorporated in interactive
elements of BIS by including virtual assistance for customers. This virtual assistance can help
users in finding or searching nearest store, searching food and beverages within their budget.
Augmented reality can be used as an interactive element of user interface that will further help
customers to attend live events that are being held within restaurant. It will directly help Smart
PLC in attracting more customers towards their food and beverages.
Other than this objective of augmented reality can be used for creating interactive user
interface using elements such as images, objectives etc. This AR requirement will directly help
in making use interface more interesting where users will be able to use their voice and facial
expression to make business information system understand their needs and requirements.
Virtual reality objectives can also use used for developing interactive user interface using which
users can easily view food or beverage that they are ordering virtually
Explanation of business strategy and analysis of ways in which application of proposals will
contribute to the business strategy
Business strategy of Smart PLC is to enhance engagement of customers within
Smartchoice BIS system in order to enhance sales and profitability of organization. Main aim of
Smart PLC is to automate their business information system using AR/ VR components within
applications in order to attract more customers, enhance customer experience and help business
to grow. Main business strategy is to enhance experience of customers while using Smartchoice
application in order to enhance experience of customers, help customers to engage with
organization in order to enhance cost and value exchange of organization.
Proposed application with AR/ VR requirements will directly help in implementing
business strategy successfully and will further help them in gaining attention of their application
users and will further enhance probability of conversion of application user to customers. Like
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attending live events within restaurant will directly help in enhancing customer experience an
motivate then to remain loyal to organization. This strategy will help in enhancing profitability
of business which will further contribute positively in enhancing overall economy of country
(Epstein, Elkington and Herman, 2018). Its social impact will also be positive as people will
engage more towards technology and will take interest in advance technology that can help in
taking society towards development.
TASK 4
Explanation of theory used to justify the choices made for your proposed business information
solution and ways in which those theories were applied
There were various kind of theories that were used to make choices within proposed
business information solution. Each of those theories were applied for different purpose and
helped in proposing system that fulfil both business and customers’ requirements. First theory
used was porters five force analysis. This theory helped in analysing competitive environment by
evaluating threats of current competition, new competition, suppliers, substitute products etc. this
theory directly helped in understanding substitute products available in market, features of
substitute products that can impact business of organization (Bruijl, 2018). This analysis helped
in identifying features that were required to be included within new application for gaining
competitive advantage, and enhancing overall customer satisfaction. This theory further helped
in gaining more clarity of services or augmented reality and virtual reality requirements that are
required to be included within application developed.
In order to support business information solution for development of application for
organization, value chain was also used for identifying specific and critical leveraging points that
can be focused upon by firm while developing information system for gaining competitive
advantage. Adoption of value chain theory directly helped organization in identifying their main
primary and secondary activities that are important to be focused upon adding value to their
developed application and for enhancing overall experience of their users in order to convert
most of the users into customers of organization (Nagy and et.al, 2018). This theory was majorly
used for enhancing cost/ value exchange for both business and customers as it helped in gaining
understanding of places where augmented reality a virtual realty can be included within
application. Value chain analysis was used to identify all the main primary and secondary value
chain activities that are required to be focused upon and included within application so that it
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looks different from its competitors’ applications. With the help of this analysis, it was identified
that HR, and finance are secondary value chain activities. This value chain theory also helped in
evaluating that production, sales and logistics are main primary activities, so for this sales
management and point of sales system were included to be accessed by management of
organization, restaurant management features are included on dashboard for HR to access and
manage application and ordering service is included as a feature for customers to order food and
beverages desired by them, AI based feedback system is induced for customers so that they can
provide their feedback and AI based system can respond to their feedback effectively.
Other than this balance scorecard model was also used for identifying scope of
improvement within internal operations of the application in order to enhance external outcomes
(Perramon and et.al, 2016). This mode was used to evaluate the application for taking important
decisions that can help in making application much better and more effective and can help
organization in achieving desired goal and objective in a positive manner. With the help of this
model vision and strategy of organization for this application were analysed and it was identified
that financially this application could directly help in increasing sales, enhance net profitability
every year. It further helps in evaluating and analysing customer perspective. This directly
helped in bringing improvement within application and helped in understanding ways in which
augmented reality and virtual reality can help in developing business information system in such
a manner that it enhances for cost/value exchange for your business and customers, ways in
which user experience though user interface can be enhanced, AR/VR elements that could be
included for making interactive user interface. This helped in in taking decisions about
Smartchoice so that this application can help in converting new market application users into
customers so that overall sales of organization can be enhanced.
COCLUSION
From the above summarized report, it has been concluded that Smart PLC with high scale
digitalization and virtual reality implementation has high scope for gaining stronger business
productive goodwill. Retail firm has strong independent food delivery services, for extended
commercial growth expertise paradigms in automation expertise. Report has concluded
significance of virtual reality in fastening services among customer’s services delivery
management, and based upon challenges and opportunities for adopting to high technical
expertise factors. Study further summarized Smart Plc company heads on profound focus for
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interactive elements usage, where positive business outcomes are extended innovatively within
terms correlated towards bringing social and environmental impacts. The research further
concluded analysis through various models such as porters five force model, value chain,
business scorecard model etc. for attaining effective output, higher specific productive rise for
enhancing virtual technology outlook development.
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