ISY3001 E-Business: A Comparative Analysis of B2B Financial Firms

This report provides a comparative analysis of two Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce companies in Australia's financial services market: Azure Group and Deloitte. It begins by defining the B2B model and its relevance in the Australian context. The report then analyzes the business models of Azure Group and Deloitte, highlighting their goals, services, and market presence. A detailed website analysis follows, evaluating aspects such as URL structure, search engine optimization, information availability, user information gathering, trust factors, legal considerations, accessibility, cultural aspects, product information, customization, personalization, support channels, ease of information access, clarity of reading, navigation, website aesthetics, user community maintenance, server uptime, browser accessibility, payment procedures, and delivery options. Finally, the report concludes with a preference for one website over the other based on the analysis. Desklib provides students with access to this and other solved assignments.

Running head: COMPARISON OF E-BUSINESS COMPANIES OF AUSTRALIA
Comparison of e-Business Companies of Australia
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Table of Contents
Task A: The Concept of Business-To-Business (B2B) Model..................................................4
Task B: Brief Business Model Analysis of the two B2B E-Commerce Business Website.......6
Task C: The Primary Goals and Aims of the chosen Business..................................................7
Task D: Analysis of the Chosen Website...................................................................................9
1. Website URL......................................................................................................................9
2. Search Engine Optimization..............................................................................................9
3. Information related to Website.........................................................................................10
4. Gathering of User Information.........................................................................................11
6. Website Trust Factor........................................................................................................12
7. Addressing of legal aspects..............................................................................................12
8. Accessibility of Website..................................................................................................13
9. Cultural aspects within the Website.................................................................................14
10. Product Information.......................................................................................................14
11. Customization................................................................................................................15
12. Experience personation for Users..................................................................................15
13. Support channels or User Service/Support....................................................................16
14. Ease of accessing information........................................................................................16
15. Clarity of Reading..........................................................................................................17
16. Navigation of Website....................................................................................................17
17. Look and Feel of the Website........................................................................................18

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18. Maintenance of User Community..................................................................................18
19. Server up time and other functionalities........................................................................19
20. Accessibility of the Web browser..................................................................................19
21. Payment procedures within the Websites......................................................................20
22. Range of Delivery options.............................................................................................21
Task E: Preference of One website over the other...................................................................22

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Task A: The Concept of Business-To-Business (B2B) Model
In this assignment, the Business-to-Business (B2B) model of e-commerce have been
chosen. The B2B model of e-commerce business can be defined as the collaboration of more
than two different business organisations based on performing several forms of business
transactions. This scenario also depicts the involvement of businesses based within
wholesalers, retailers or different manufacturing businesses (Laudon and Traver 2016). The
B2B model of business helps different business organisations to develop a process chain
based on which they would be able to enhance the flow of a wide amount of data and other
preferred services. This kind of business process does not deal with individual customers but
rather covers the entire business aspect. In the present scenario, it has been seen that the
Australian financial service providers are making high use of the support from the
government based on developing their business sector and thus serve the respective industry.
The B2B sector of business based on the e-commerce model have fostered in the
recent past years. Based on latest predictions from several sources of data, it can be discussed
that the new developed systems of e-commerce business would help the different companies
to increase their profit margins and thus generate a high revenue model. These companies
have also preferred to promote their business based on different web-based platforms such as
the use of websites and several mobile applications (Askariazad and Babakhani 2015). More
recently, the websites of popular brands act as a medium of communication for the
companies to contact with their clients based on online chat support system, calls and email
content.
In the concerned report, the first website of finance business that is considered is
Azure Group, Australia. The URL link to the website of the company is -
http://www.azuregroup.com.au/

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(Fig 1: Screenshot of Azure Group Homepage)
(Source: Azuregroup.com.au 2019)
The second considered financial website is Deloitte, Australia. The website is
operated by the following URL link - https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en.html
(Fig 2: Screenshot of Deloitte, Australia Homepage)
(Source: Deloitte Australia 2019)

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Task B: Brief Business Model Analysis of the two B2B E-Commerce Business Website
The Azure Group, Australia was primarily founded in the year 2002. The primary
mission of the company was to provide financial services across several business
organisations within the Australian domain. The business procedure of the organisation is
primarily based on the B2B model of e-commerce (Azuregroup.com.au 2019). This kind of
efficient model of business has been mostly been helpful for the organisation in order to
develop a global brand image. The organisation has also achieved success in spreading their
business message to the global market. The company also provides a diverse range of options
to their clients to call or mail their queries before the organisation based on which several
financial experts would be able to come up with excellent suggestions. The organisation also
provides cloud based business services and bookkeeping services for their diverse range of
expectations from clients. Based on several verdicts from their internal team of management,
it can be discussed that Azure Group have the earnest passion to help the different forums of
Australian business to develop their concepts further (Dmitriev et al. 2014). They also help
other organisations in providing them with the best kind of financial advices and services and
thus also educate them in several aspects. Providing such kind of advanced services generally
helps the organisation to excel in the ground of accounting and financial services and thus
enrich their B2B business model.
The Deloitte, Australia has also established their brand image in the global
marketplace. They have also expanded their diverse range of services. The financial service
provider has a huge form of reputation in the global market and have thus been listed within
the Fortune-500 group of companies (Deloitte Australia 2019). They help in providing
different forms of financial services to their new and existing clients. The range of offered
financial services are based on small to vast business industries and other kind of welfare
organisations. Unlike different competitors in the global market, Deloitte have also

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established a firm hold within the business marketplace of Australia. The Deloitte, Australia
have been considered as a globally trusted brand and under this brand, there is a whole list of
collaborations from various companies who have made use of the financial services from
Deloitte. The Deloitte Group has partnered with 790 business partners and have thus
generated a revenue of 2.015 billion dollars in 2018. The financial service provider also
provides a huge range of services in different aspect of business, which mainly range from
healthcare organisations, government organisations and other private organisations (Grewal
et al. 2015). They mainly discuss matters with their clients, understand the problems faced by
clients and thus suggest the best recommend and develop report for their clients.
Task C: The Primary Goals and Aims of the chosen Business
The Deloitte Australia is one of the branch of the largest form of financial service
provider companies in the global market. They mainly thrive to make a high level of impact
in the global market that would be highly noticeable and thus the company would be able to
gain the attraction of customers. This would not only provide boost to the aspect of business
but would also help in motivating the different business modules for their clients and other
linked business partners (Muzellec, Ronteau and Lambkin 2015). Deloitte, Australia have
also claimed to have been driven with providing the best form of quality financial services to
their linked customers. They mainly intend to provide different kind of advisory and
assurance guidance, tax advices, financial guidance, risk analysis, preparing of economic
reports and many other services.
With a varied range of financial experts within the internal management team,
Deloitte have also formulated different ways of educating their clients regarding the problems
faced at their ends. This would mainly help the client to gain a basic knowledge about the
problems faced in order to develop abilities of closing such issues in future (Madhavaram and

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Hunt 2017). Over the years, Deloitte Australia have thus been extremely successful to
commit their services and thus develop a high reputation in the global market.
On the other hand, the Azure Group, Australia have also set high aims for the internal
management team within the organisation. They have also managed to gather a high
reputation in the global market. They have also established different forms of business
collaborations with different companies from all over the world and thus have developed a
firm base in order to develop and recommend high quality of financial solutions to their
clients (Homburg, Wilczek and Hahn 2014). Azure Group had primarily stared as a charted
accountant firm in the year 2002. Based on delivering high quality solutions to their clients,
they have gained high knowledge about the financial needs of their clients and thus have
provided highly expert advices to their clients.
The company mainly aims at providing some of the high business values. These
include:
 Achievement of Business and Financial Goals – The organisation primarily puts
focus on achieving their business goals based on serving the clients with their
financial needs. Azure Group also pledges to provide the best kind of support based
on post-delivery, developing and maintaining business prosperity and articulate
relationship
 Earning Respect and Trust – Azure Group promotes their business based on gaining
a high level of respect and trust from their clients (Biedenbach, Bengtsson and Marell
2015). Ensuring a trustworthy environment would mainly help the organisation to
ensure that more clients would embark on the organisation, which would help in
promoting the business value of the organisation.

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 Providing Cloud-based Support – In the recent times, the cloud based platform
offers several kind of business solutions. Azure Group helps in providing their clients
with an enriched cloud platform. The clients would be able to back up their services
and other financial records within the website of the organisation (Ahokangas,
Juntunen and Myllykoski 2014). This kind of unique option of the delivery of service
would attract the attention of clients and thus they would avail the services.
Task D: Analysis of the Chosen Website
1. Website URL
Website Rating Comment
Deloitte Australia 4 https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en.html
The URL of the website depicts the
business name. However, the major
drawback is that the website does not
have an independent URL (Deloitte
Australia 2019). There is a sub-
domain access to URL of the website.
Azure Group, Australia 5 http://www.azuregroup.com.au/
The URL of the website is clearly
depicting the name of the business
(Azuregroup.com.au 2019). The
domain of the URL (.au) is depicting
the geographical location of the
service provider.

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2. Search Engine Optimization
Website Rating Comment
Deloitte Australia 5 The web link can easily be
located during a direct
search (Saura, Palos-
Sanchez and Correia 2019).
The name of the website can
also be found within the top
list of finance service
providers within Australian
domain.
Azure Group, Australia 5 The website can be easily
located with their name
being searched in Yahoo or
Google search engine.
3. Information related to Website
Website Rating Comment
Deloitte Australia 3 The website also provides
detailed information about
their various offered
services. However, the
information of budget is not
provided within their page.

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Azure Group, Australia 3 Different kind of updates are
provided within the website
on a regular basis. However,
the organisation does not
provide specific details of
brands that have been
working for the past years.
The budget details are also
not updated.
4. Gathering of User Information
Website Rating Comment
Deloitte Australia 5 They tend to gather intrinsic
details from the clients.
They thus offer an
exceptional way of handling
the gathered information
(Swani, Brown and Milne
2014).
Azure Group, Australia 2 They do not provide scope
of gathering of information
from the client (Reim,
Parida and Örtqvist 2015).
The client has to fill a
certain form and thus mail it