An example of ebay X.commerce platform to analyze the trend of electric business

From the earliest human barter to today's merchandise through the internet, and then delivered to your hands, we walked for tens of thousands of years. Today we understand how to do e-commerce is to introduce flow, improve conversion rate, quality service. Besides that? E-commerce has so far only more than 10 years of history means that there is still unlimited possibilities, each time the technological innovation will bring great changes in people's lifestyles. What is the trend of e-business in the future? Your profit is like this today, how to come tomorrow?

To answer the question above, we might as well look at what the big business of Silicon Valley's E-commerce giant ebay is doing on the other side of the ocean. ebay is currently the world's largest consumer-to-consumer E-commerce trading platform, ebay's PayPal payment also in the global online payment field has a difficult position. Ebay has spent billions of of dollars in recent years acquiring many E-commerce-related businesses, the most important of which is gsi,magento. ebay's traditional Consumer-to-consumer business has slowed in recent years, with more and more users willing to buy directly from the fast-and-easy online consumer store. GSI gives ebay the ability to provide e-commerce solutions for big businesses and big brands. Magento provides ebay with a full range of e-commerce development platforms from small (even personal) to large enterprises.

So is the acquisition of these companies merely to increase market share? How can the advantages of these enterprises be integrated with ebay to play a greater power to become ebay's new business engine? What is ebay's intentions?

The answer ebay has unveiled for us in the last few months. Ebay launched the X.commerce platform.

X.commerce Platform

X.commerce before the domestic reports that he is ebay imitation Apple App Store, let developers on the X.commerce platform to develop, submit applications, and then E-commerce Enterprises to buy these developers program, to form a benign development of the ecological environment. Taobao also has a similar application store, based on Taobao users, data, open platform development and application, after the submission of Taobao users pay to buy use.

Carefully read the product introduction in the X.commerce website you will find that the App Store is only a tiny part of the X.commerce. The real core of X.commerce is a cloud service platform. The concept of cloud has almost been fried rotten, I met people are embarrassed to open up to say cloud this matter, people will think I this person special vulgar. At present, the application of cloud in domestic enterprises is mainly in the level of operating system virtualization, that is, computing resources cloud. This is mainly because the enterprise internal server resources, management and maintenance is very troublesome, with the cloud can improve the utilization of hardware resources, reduce energy consumption, but also easy to manage maintenance. Internet service companies use more of the cloud on the SaaS level, the cloud used by software operations. This is mainly because when the number of users, the program's deployment maintenance support is a big problem, with SaaS can solve some of the problems. And cloud computing at the platform architecture level of an important fundamental concept of SOA, currently involved in very little domestic. SOA, on the one hand, is much more complex, unlike operating system virtualization, where standard software can be used, or implementations like SaaS, that can be explained in white and implemented in a system. On the other hand, the domestic basic who also refuses to listen to who, you engage in an open standard, I have to change a little bit, I also get one, the result who service is not on who.

X.commerce's main design concept is an SOA cloud service platform. Give examples of services that are already available on a few simple x.commerce:

Regular Billing service – you do virtual hosting services, each month billing to the user's mailbox charges. You don't have to develop this part of the code, Just call the electronic billing service on the X.commerce, transfer the amount, the user information, e-billing service will help you to send the electronic bill to the user, and remind him to pay, he can directly through the link in the mail payment, you can also manage all the electronic billing and their collection, whether the need to reissue, whether to cancel and so on. Invoice service – There is no invoice in foreign countries, it is called invoice. You can put the invoice management work to the invoice service to do, he will help you invoice to the customer, and then collect, and manage all historical invoices and receipts. Market Data Services – This is the statistical data service provided by the ebay platform. Tell you at any time in a certain area of users, a certain age, sex, a professional user, the last January, which promotional methods most attracted them. Tell you the average transaction price in a certain commodity market at present. In this way your commodity prices can be dynamically updated automatically, at any time according to market prices, adjust your price!

Other common functions, such as collection, collection, payment, ebay interface integration, are also the services that the X.commerce platform has already provided. In the future, such as user behavior analysis, user data tracking, promotion management, promotion management, customer management, logistics management, warehousing management, customer service center and so on all kinds of services will slowly increase into x.commerce.

Currently, X.commerce services are provided mainly by ebay, Paypal and Magento. ebay provides data services on ebay, commodity services, trading services, search services, etc. PayPal provides all and payment related services; Magento is the basic platform of the whole e-commerce, on this platform to connect all the other services to provide a complete e-commerce solution; Magento has also provided Magento go cloud services, and users can quickly build their own online stores online.

So in the future, if you are a personal or small merchant, you will use Magento go to open the shop directly on the Internet. If you want to manage the server, then install Magento. If you want a large merchant to ask for a deep consultation custom, find GSI. Then call the cloud service on the X.commerce directly with any additional functionality.

Electric dealers can not always be the same quality products hit the price war, profits will only get lower, so what Invoice management module how to design and maintenance, customer management module How to design and maintenance, logistics management module How to design and maintenance, how to deploy the server, this is the same as every home appliance business to solve the same problem This is not your core competitiveness for the electrical business, then by a lot of solutions to compete with each other platform to do, you pick one of your most satisfactory service, both professional and the lowest cost. Do not repeat the wheel of every appliance maker to invent one side, electrical business as long as you do your products and services, shape their own brand, seize your core value, other logistics things to X.commerce on the line. This is the layout of ebay's transformation. ebay billions of U.S. dollars to acquire the enterprise, all is to build up X.commerce this E-commerce platform, in every aspect of E-commerce have manufacturers support X.commerce platform. SOA Cloud Services Platform I set standards, but what if no enterprise follows? It's okay...... I'll buy you all.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)