week 9, task

OVI by Nokia

1) What do you think about the concept? Do you think that it will be successful or not?

It can be succesful if people will buy Nokia cell phone that supports all Ovi operations. It is almost like a small PC and because on the market there is a lot of companies offering small computers just for organising the day life and sharing data, pictures, Nokia will have problem to be success with this.

2) How can they make money out of it?

By paying for the connection and for the amount of data that goes out and in the devide. We do not think that the way how to get money is advertisement because during the time online we are not interupted by it.

3) How does this change Nokia´s position in the markets?

Nokia´s position is changed because at first Nokia sells product but Ovi is servise so Nokia can beat others competitors as Google, Apple, Microsoft.

4) Do you think that now it is good idea to buy Nokia shares?

It can be strange to advise to buy the Nokia shares, but it is great and famous company which can be able to survive to the financial crisis. If you buy the share you can do surplus but you have to count with the longer time period.

week 8, task

Amazon.com
1. What does the company do - what is its business?

The main purpose of the company "Sharethis" is the sharing for everyone. This company allows to consumers in one click to instantly post, tag and send the content via mail or text message (SMS). It is possible also to share data on a blog or on a social network as Facebook. It is easily to use Sharethis thanks to the toolbar in the Internet navigator. There is also 30 000 websites where the consumer can find the "Sharethis button". The company is constantly growing.

2. How it uses Amazon services?

Sharethis deployed its architecture on Amazon web services (AWS). Amazon is used for all services expect mail. Indeed, AWS is used for storage of shared objects or database dumps. It is possible also to publish report. However, the most important service used by Sharethis is Amazon SQS. It can be used for job control, synchronization and general impedence matching.

3. What benefits Amazon web services give to the company?

This architecture is tangible and Sharethis estimates a saving costs of $200 000. Moreover, there are a lot of cost saving as zero software costs, minimal staff costs, low barrier to development, responsiveness and reliability.

4. What disadvantages there are in Amazon web services to the company?

Just focus on customers instead of computers.