How It-enabled Scm and E-commerce Help Dell Improve Competitive Advantage

Information technology, dan teknologi Internet pada khusus merupakan fasilitator (enabler) yang memungkinkan information sharing antar Perusahaan tanpa kendala dan real-time baik internal maupun antar-organisasi. Dampak IT dan teknologi Internet bersama dengan tiga tipe networks pentingnya seperti Intranet, Extranet, dan Web pada manajemen rantai pasokan atau supply chain management (SCM) dan commerce menjadi IT-enabled SCM dan e-commerce, sehingga transfer data digital dan koordinasi serta information sharing dapat dijalankan dengan lancar, murah dan real-time.Persaingan bisnis yang ketat dewasa ini mengharuskan Perusahaan menerapkan IT-enabled SCM yang efisien dan e-commerce yang efektif, sehingga persaingan tidak lagi terletak pada persaingan antar Perusahaan, melainkan terletak pada persaingan antara rantai pasokan. Tujuan paper ini, pertama: menganalisis dan membahas trend dalam SCM dan e-commerce dengan cara meneliti bagaimana IT dan Internet pada khususnya seperti intranet, extranet, and Web mentransformasi dan merampingkan SCM dan e-commerce. Kemudian: studi kasus pada Dell, Inc.untuk mengetahui bagaimana Dell, Inc. sukses menjalankan IT-enables SCM dan e-commerce

Understanding E-business & E-commerce and Their Relation to the Conceptual Framework of E-marketing: Case Study

Information technology (IT), teknologi Internet pada khususnya telah membawa Perubahan dalam praktik bisnis dan pemasaran, di mana hampir semua aktivitas dan praktik business, commerce, dan marketing dapat dijalankan secara elektronik. Hal ini terlihat pada istilah/kata seperti“electronic business (e-business)”,“electronic commerce (e-commerce), dan“electronic marketing (e-marketing)” yang artinya disiplin ilmu tersebut telah teraplikasi dalam information dan communication technology (ICT) dan telah dipraktikan secara elektronik. Meskipun demikian, sampai saat ini masih belum ada keseragaman dalam hal definisi dan konsep e-business, e-commerce, dan e-marketing bahkan terjadi tumpang tindih (overlap) satu sama lain dalam praktik. Selain dapat membentuk wawasan berpikir yang terfokus, konsep dan definisi yang tepat baik dalam pengertian luas maupun pengertian sempit akan memberi manfaat untuk menjustifikasi posisi diri kita sendiri baik dari aspek disiplin ilmu maunpun dalam praktik. Paper ini mereview literature dari berbagai sumber buku dan jurnal mengenai konsep dan definisi e-business, e-commerce, dan e-marketing yang tepat, dikatkan dengan penelitian ProfessorMeng dari Universitas Guan Dong berjudul“Study on Combining e-commerce and e-marketing” Mei 2010 yang sedikit banyak telah menginspirasi pembahasan paper ini dan sekaligus menjadikannya sebagai studi kasus paper ini

A Survey of the Latest IT Trends of Cloud Software-As-A-Service

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is an increasingly popular IT model and has become an IT trends. Yet, research on this topic is still rare in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to examine the latest IT trends of Cloud SaaS system using surveys and interviews as a research method to obtain data from 130 companies. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics approach to measure the IT trends. Findings showed the willingness to consider traditional on-premise systems steadily decreased, whereas over the same time frame, the willingness to consider Cloud SaaS systems steadily increased. This study provides managers and academia with a critical insight into the latest IT trends Cloud computing and SaaS and contributes toward IT solutions

Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): A Panchromatic View of DO Tau's Complex Kilo-au Environment

While protoplanetary disks are often treated as isolated systems in planet formation models, observations increasingly suggest that vigorous interactions between Class II disks and their environments are not rare. DO Tau is a T Tauri star that has previously been hypothesized to have undergone a close encounter with the HV Tau system. As part of the DESTINYS ESO Large Programme, we present new VLT/SPHERE polarimetric observations of DO Tau and combine them with archival HST scattered light images and ALMA observations of CO isotopologues and CS to map a network of complex structures. The SPHERE and ALMA observations show that the circumstellar disk is connected to arms extending out to several hundred au. HST and ALMA also reveal stream-like structures northeast of DO Tau, some of which are at least several thousand au long. These streams appear not to be gravitationally bound to DO Tau, and comparisons with previous Herschel far-IR observations suggest that the streams are part of a bridge-like structure connecting DO Tau and HV Tau. We also detect a fainter redshifted counterpart to a previously known blueshifted CO outflow. While some of DO Tau's complex structures could be attributed to a recent disk-disk encounter, they might be explained alternatively by interactions with remnant material from the star formation process. These panchromatic observations of DO Tau highlight the need to contextualize the evolution of Class II disks by examining processes occurring over a wide range of size scales.Comment: 41 pages, 20 figures, accepted by ApJ, reduced data available at https://zenodo.org/record/640890

The composition of the protosolar disk and the formation conditions for comets

Conditions in the protosolar nebula have left their mark in the composition of cometary volatiles, thought to be some of the most pristine material in the solar system. Cometary compositions represent the end point of processing that began in the parent molecular cloud core and continued through the collapse of that core to form the protosun and the solar nebula, and finally during the evolution of the solar nebula itself as the cometary bodies were accreting. Disentangling the effects of the various epochs on the final composition of a comet is complicated. But comets are not the only source of information about the solar nebula. Protostellar disks around young stars similar to the protosun provide a way of investigating the evolution of disks similar to the solar nebula while they are in the process of evolving to form their own solar systems. In this way we can learn about the physical and chemical conditions under which comets formed, and about the types of dynamical processing that shaped the solar system we see today. This paper summarizes some recent contributions to our understanding of both cometary volatiles and the composition, structure and evolution of protostellar disks.Comment: To appear in Space Science Reviews. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-015-0167-

Resolved images of a protostellar outflow driven by an extended disk wind.

Young stars are associated with prominent outflows of molecular gas. The ejection of gas is believed to remove angular momentum from the protostellar system, permitting young stars to grow by the accretion of material from the protostellar disk. The underlying mechanism for outflow ejection is not yet understood, but is believed to be closely linked to the protostellar disk. Various models have been proposed to explain the outflows, differing mainly in the region where acceleration of material takes place: close to the protostar itself ('X-wind', or stellar wind), in a larger region throughout the protostellar disk (disk wind), or at the interface between the two. Outflow launching regions have so far been probed only by indirect extrapolation because of observational limits. Here we report resolved images of carbon monoxide towards the outflow associated with the TMC1A protostellar system. These data show that gas is ejected from a region extending up to a radial distance of 25 astronomical units from the central protostar, and that angular momentum is removed from an extended region of the disk. This demonstrates that the outflowing gas is launched by an extended disk wind from a Keplerian disk