Saturday, March 16, 2013

Role of Cloud Computing in Ecommerce

Advancement in technology is affecting business operations and processes all around the world. These advancement and innovations are reducing the time of operation and increasing the level of accuracy in a very low cost. Advancement in computer and mobile technology are playing main role in making business processes much easier.

Networking is one of the most effective and important advancement, which make it possible to communicate among many machines. Internet is the main source which is used to connect computers all over the world. People are performing different task on Internet such as information sharing, social networking, mobile banking and online businesses. Further innovations and advancements introduced us with improved level of networking known as Cloud Computing. Efficiency and effective communication through Cloud Computing strengthening the business operations.     

Cloud Computing introduced a new branch of commerce called E-commerce in retail business. E-commerce is taking many benefits and advantages from Cloud Computing. Some of these advantages are cost effectiveness, Speed of Operations, Scalability and the most important Security.

Since cloud vendors undertake all activities of business, taking initiatives for E-commerce retailers are more cost effective. The cloud vendor distribute the overall cost among all clients, which is more cost effective and beneficial for retailer. Cloud Computing is increasing the speed of business operations because of already installed IT infrastructure required for hosting of an E-commerce application. Timely execution of various modules of the application makes Cloud Computing more efficient.

Scalability is also very important advantage of Cloud Computing. Easy scaling of resource utilization and requirement helps retailer to manage the platform hosting and hosting and maintaining expenditure. Security the most important advantage that E-commerce is taking from Cloud Computing. All threats checked effectively for any loss of information or network on the standard drafts prepared by the various organizations like ISO. Vendor provides retailer a Private Cloud for the conduct of operational practice to secure confidential data. Private space with resources provided to retailer with absolute authority. Retailer only intimate the vendor for any changes which retailer made without any interference of vendor.

Cloud Computing makes it easy for retailer to select whole package or only a single part of any available service on cloud according to retailer need and purpose. Retailer can select a software, hardware as a service for platform. Even, they can deploy a hosting platform as a service.

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