Business Environment Sales of an Organisation

Question: Discuss about the Business Environment for Sales of an Organisation. Answer: 1. Social networking plays a significant role in increasing the sales of an organization by increasing interactions with the customers. The organizations share their content and product information on social media so that the users get all the information and visit the website to share or like the content. Customers use one of the common platforms such as Twitter or Facebook that helps to increase flow of communication. It is a great way to display the performance of the business and providing valuable service to the customers (Hurwitz, 2009). Therefore, it helps to achieve competitive advantage in the market. 2. Web platform is a fundamental innovation that has changed the business world. The internet is being used increasingly to create platform where applications such as databases and word processing can be accessed through web browser. The web platforms provides integration between conventional desktop and web based operations and allows the documents to be stored on the remote servers and enables the users to access the files via web browser from anywhere. Therefore, it means there is no need to have software on wireless device or each computer with internet access (Jackson, 2012). The web services provide a wide platform to the organizations to operate their businesses. 3. The full advantage of the web platforms is likely not be achieved for some times. The main reason behind it is the security issues that are increasing day by day. The increase in security risks such as hacking, loss of data and malware has led to a major threat on the use of internet. The need of speeding the internet connections is also a major concern for the users of internet. The development of internet is very much important for users and for the business organizations (Marks Lozano, 2010) . It will contribute in widening the gap between the technology users and also increasing the need for developing countries to be connected technologically. However, the use of internet for networking and computer based activities will substantially increase in coming year. The main issue faced by the users of internet is security issues. 4. The use of internet is increasing day by day in the current business environment that has led to increase in expectations. The cloud computing has gained its popularity by solving the problem of storage system. However, there are uncertainties in the development of cloud computing. The major issue with cloud computing is security issue which imposes significant impact on the users. One of the main reasons behind the uncertainty of cloud computing is that the object is not very well understood by all and some inadvertent factors have the potential of influencing the way in which it works. Retrospective uncertainty lies in the fact there has not been much information and data gathered about its behavior in the past. Technical uncertainty lies in the fact that it is not possible to specifically predict the results of the future from the decisions of the present (Rountree Castrillo, 2014). 5. Work practices and productivity are bound to be enhanced due to the incorporation of cloud computing. It would help in maintaining business continuity as data and information in a system gets backed up and protected in a safe and secure location so the concerned individual of the organization can access it without much difficulty. The productivity of a workplace gets increased as a cloud environment gives the opportunity to a business to collaborate and communicate with others in a much better manner. Moreover cloud computing gives the opportunity to the employees of an organization to have flexible work hours that help the workers to meet up with the deadline that they have been assigned in an effective manner and therefore the companys performance also increases. Access to automatic updates is provided by cloud computing and this helps the organizations to automatically update its IT requirements without having to go through many problems. 6. In case of a web platform provider that reaches a dominant standard there are many benefits and advantages in the store. It consumes less bandwidth and thus ensures faster downloads which is bound to be very beneficial for any individual that uses that platform. Secondly, the search engine optimization gets improved without needing to undergo much costs and this cost effectiveness can be very helpful for the web platform itself. Increased website traffic aids the web platform to maintain contact with the users at each and every level. Therefore achieving the level of a dominant standard can prove to be very advantageous for a web platform. 7. Most of the computers used all over the world is incorporated with the Microsoft software and thus most of the users are accustomed to the way in which it works. Therefore when Microsoft develops web based applications, more users are bound to opt for it as they are familiar with the way in which it will work. Secondly the web based applications created by Microsoft is bound to comply with the Microsoft Office Software incorporated in the computers and thus would be more accepted by the users. These are the basic advantages that Microsoft would have while developing web based applications (Sosinsky, 2011). These applications in no time will become popular as the common users of the application will attract potential users of the application. 8. With the advent of internet and at the present time different web based applications that cover each and every subject and topic under the sun, the world has become a very small place. Therefore learning has become a very easy process as one can search for any application and learn about the particular topic that he or she wants to. It can thus be said that the web based applications have enhanced the access to knowledge by a much greater extent. References Hurwitz, J. (2009).Cloud computing for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub. Jackson, K. (2012).OpenStack cloud computing cookbook. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. Marks, E. Lozano, B. (2010).Executive's guide to cloud computing. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Rountree, D. Castrillo, I. (2014).Basics of cloud computing. Amsterdam: Elsevier Syngress. Sosinsky, B. (2011).Cloud computing bible. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.