Amazon’s New Store: Utility Computing Andrea Bell James Phillips April 2, 2011 Amazon spent its first 12 years refining its informational infrastructure responsible for making its online service successful. In March 2006 Amazon introduced the first of several new services, which included Simple Storage Service (S3) and later Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); Amazon entered the cloud utility computing market. Amazon had tremendous computing capacity but they only used a small portion of it at one
Objective This financial analysis on Amazon.com (“Amazon”) was conducted in order to determine if we should invest in the company. In our analysis, Amazon’s financial statements (income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows) were reviewed for the past three years (2008 – 2010), stock performance for the past 10 years (2001 – 2010) as well as key financial ratios compared to its industry. This analysis provides us with a basis to compare Amazon’s historical performance with representative
Marketing II Exercise #2 Amazon.com Summer quarter - 2012 1. High Industry Attractiveness for Amazon.com Medium 1 Market of Kindle v. Apple Ipad Innovative new offerings such as: Kindle, Cloud, Web Services 2 Recognized & Trusted Service 3 Bargaining power of customers is low - Cost Leadership Low 2 Innovation Services Brand recognition High customer satisfaction 3 Sales of 3rd party sellers of books, audio, technology 3 Pay suppliers quickly 1 They continue to invest and grow their market
Individual Strategic Analysis Strategic Management Prof. Miller BMGT 495 05/03/10 TABLE OF CONTENTS History ________________________________________________________________3-8 Mission Statement/ Vision Statement_________________________________________8-9 Leadership Style_________________________________________________________9-10 Corporate Culture________________________________________________________10-12 Achievements___________________________________________________________12-13
SWOT ANALYSIS Amazon.com, Inc is the world’s largest online retailer. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, video, MP3 downloads, electronics, furniture, food, toys and other commodities. On the September 2011, Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire tablet computer to compete Apple, Google, and Samsung in the consumer electronics field. In addition, Amazon is also major provider of cloud-computing service. -------Wikipedia
Amazon is an American electronic commerce company that has become an icon of internet business. Jeff Bezos founded the company in 1994 and launched it online in 1995 as an online bookstore. However, the logo soon became symbolic as they started to sell everything from A to Z. Time magazine names Bezos “1999 Person of the Year” and said, “Bezos’ vision of the online retailing universe was so complete, his Amazon.com site so elegant and appealing that it became from Day One the Point of reference
Hamilton Written Case 11/24/2013 An Analysis of Amazon Executive Summary Amazon has become one of if the not the largest online retailer of all products. From baby clothing to inflatable party sheep, Amazon sells everything and anything you might need. Since their inception in July 1995, Amazon has been a trailblazer in the online retailer industry. Through their strategies which have taken advantage of the external environment’s strengths and weaknesses, Amazon has been able to survive the dot
Value Chain Analysis Unit 4 Individual Project Assignment Matthew Neitzel GB570 Managing the Value Chain Dr. Jerry Haenisch Kaplan University February 21, 2012 Value Chain Analysis The purpose of this paper is to analyze the value chain for Delta Air Lines, Inc. Delta Air Lines has been in the passenger airline business for around 83 years. It was originally a crop-dusting operation in 1924 called the Huff Daland Dusters. Though the company started in Macon, Georgia, in 1925 the company
The Amazons were said to have founded the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis, III.233), where many later were wounded or slain in battle with Dionysus (Plutarch, Greek Questions, LVI; Pausanias, VII.2.7). At the inauguration of the Artemision in 440-430 BC, the statues of four Amazons were dedicated by Polycleitus, Phidias, Cresilas, and Phradmon. This has prompted speculation as to which later Roman marble copies can be attributed to these bronze antecedents. Three archetypes
1994 Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage in Seattle, Washington. Amazon became a sensation almost immediately as an online bookstore. People relished in the convenience Amazon offered towards buying books. Amazon was solely a book store until later when Nick Hanauer decided to invest in the company and use Amazon as a sort of online store. Since that time Amazon has become a medium for any company to sell its products to consumers through the internet. Currently Amazon offers products ranging