Business Model Analysis of Metabox Laptops: Recommendations

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the business model of Metabox Laptops, a prominent laptop brand in Australia. It begins with an overview of the company, its history, and its focus on high-end, customizable laptops. The report then delves into Metabox's business model, highlighting its B2C approach and key partners like Nvidia and Intel. It examines the revenue model, emphasizing the customer as the primary revenue source. Furthermore, the report analyzes Metabox's current market, website content, hardware and software infrastructure, and security issues, including potential malware and DDoS attacks. The payment process, including credit card, debit card, EMI, and direct bank transfer methods, is also discussed. The report concludes with recommendations, such as improving services and ensuring website security, and suggests the implementation of PayPal as a payment option. References from academic journals and Metabox's official website are included.

METABOX LAPTOPS
Business Model

2
Introduction
• Current Business of Metabox Laptops
will be analyzed.
• Overall business of Metabox will
improve.
• Various aspects of Metabox business
will be discussed.

3
Organization
Overview
o One of the famous laptop brand
in Australia.
o Started more that 17 years ago.
o Mainly sells high-end laptops in
Australia.
o Offered laptops are fully
customisable.

4
Business Model
o It describes how organization deliver,
create and capture value in social,
economic and cultural context.
o Currently Metabox uses B2C
business model.
o Nvidia and Intel are key partners of
Metabox.

5
Revenue Model
o It is a framework utilized for
revenue generation.
o Key component of the Business
model.
o The main revenue source for
Metabox is the customers.

6
Metabox’s Market
o Metabox is fully functional only in
Australia.
o Current website of Metabox is not
capable of provide service
internationally.
o Currnet payment function of the
website will not work internationally.

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Website of
Metabox
WEBSITE CONTENT
• Overall attractive content.
• High quality images has been used.
• Description of the products
provided properly.
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Website of
Metabox
HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
• Web server hardware is the most important
hardware.
• Proxy server is important for connection
establishment among outside world and
website resources.
• Other important hardware are the load
balancers, encryption devices and firewall
devices.
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Website of
Metabox
SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
• Software infrastructure is important for
properly utilizing the hardware infrastructure.
• Important software programs are the text
analytics, content management system, web
analytics and database server.
• These software infrastructure also provides
functionality of transaction processing
system, communication system and
database system.
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Website of
Metabox
SECURITY ISSUES
• Malware attacks, DDoS attacks, Data
interception, Sensitive data exposure are
the main security issues.
• There are currently no internal security
issues in Metabox.
• Malware attacks and DDoS attacks are the
potential attacks for the Metabox website.
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Website of
Metabox
PAYMENT PROCESS
• Credit Card and Debit Card payment are
the main payment methods.
• EMI payments methods and Direct bank
transfer is also provide by Metabox
website.
• Refunds is also provided by Metabox
upon certain conditions.
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Conclusion and Recommendation
• Metabox is one of the largest laptop seller in Australia.
• Metabox need to improve their services with the time.
• Proper Security of the website must be ensured by
Metabox.
• PayPal payment method can be implemented by
Metabox.