Next Generation Order Placing System

The world is changing fast; e-commerce battle has been expanded from PC to mobile.

Still the way we order much more similar to what we do before 5 years…But it times to change this system.

I am working in proto type and also designing how next generation system looks like. In this article I will discuss about three points

 1) New Order Placing system which just arrived

 2) Possible Order placing  System  #1 (very general to order anything and fits in your garbage)

 3) Possible Oder placing system #2 (built in system sensor with your product package or in your jar)

1)      New Order Placing system which just arrived - Amazon dash

How it works?

·         If you think that 5 items are there which you never want to run out then you can buy those dash button for these five items.

·         Whenever you notice that your favorite items about to run out press that dash button and it will send order details.

·         You will get mobile notification and if you want you can edit the order as well

·         If you are prime member then within two days those item will be at your door steps

Disadvantage:

·         Very limited options to buy different dash button and it cost (4.99$)

·         You are bounded to only one portal and one product

2)      But I am more interested in developing prototype for option #2 and that system will be intelligent enough to read the barcode and order the same price after compering total prices , ship time (based on your priority )

How it will work actually?

·         A Sensor install into or an intelligent garbage collector  which is connected to wifi and also connected to main server

·         You can login into the portal and customize your priority and also configure order quantity for particular item

·         You through your empty package into garbage ..sensor will read barcode.

·         Sensor then send this information to server

·         Server will search certain portals and try to find best deal

·         Order that item and send you the notification

·         If you feel that you want to modify order just click on the link and modify order

Disadvantage:

·         Difficult to order very large item which you cannot throw in garbage

  

3)      Third option is to develop sensor and programmed it to send signals when jar is about to empty

How it will work actually?

·         Buy N number of wifi enabled sensors

·         Associate order with each sensors (the way dash is doing)

·         Set threshold weight

·         Put that sensor in Jar

·         Now when jar is have less weight which was specified in the threshold level of sensor

·         Sensor will send signal to particular device which is in the home and that device will send that signal to Main server

·         Server will compare market prices and place the order

·         Consumer can edit the order

Disadvantage:

·         Lots of manual work to setup and customize sensor

·         What if you cook the sensor (you are putting sugar in tea and you boiled out that sensor and more you may drunk  it as well J)

 

Feel free to drop your ideas in comment and if you have any suggestion or need more information then feel free to contact me on viralpala@gmail.com

Hope you like this article!!!

AWS New Services

In the last week during Amazon re:Invent 2015 Las Vegas, Amazon has announced some new services  below are quick view of of these services and more details are on the way !!!

Amazon QuickSight:

Fast, easy-to-use, cloud-powered business intelligence

 Amazon Kinesis Firehose:

Easily load streaming data to AWS

 

AWS Import/Export Snowball:  

Transfer 1 Petabyte Per Week Using Amazon-Owned Storage Appliances

AWS Config Rules (Preview)

AWS Config Rules is a new set of cloud governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. AWS Config Rules lets you choose from a set of pre-built rules based on common AWS best practices or custom rules that you define

Amazon Inspector (Preview)

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed report with prioritized steps for remediation

How to Convert IT from Cost to Value

How to Convert IT from Cost to Value

Now days each big organization have many divisions and those divisions are eating cost and because of this IT looks like a Cost not profit center to higher management.

Also Higher management does not able to find out which department eating IT most and when it comes to different public cloud , private cloud and hybrid cloud it becomes very difficult.
and to solve this problem we need to focus on   TBM (Technology Business Management)

I am just describing approach to achieve this 

1)  First you need to collect data on who is eating your services.

2) Then you need to collect data and prepare inventory of all the hardware , software and network (including Service provider )

3) Collect vendor information a 

4) Now once you have this data you need to use tool which allow you to see unified view across all the the infrastructure (like cloud cruiser )

5)  once you have this kind of tools ..it will provide you data about which business unit is consuming your service.

6) now you can use chargeback and show back to relaize that business unit that they are consuming services

7) for private cloud you can use cost model from Apptio and from other to determine exact cost of the VMs and other hardware (including space ) and based on that you can chargeback - showback to your division

8) once you have trend data and capacity picture then you can optmize your cost

9) some tools allow you to do What-If modeling which empower you to compare with diffrent public/private and hybrid model.

once you start forecasting , chargeback-showback and invoices , you will cameto know from where we can cut the cost and at what level.

This will reduce your cost by 20-30% and most it will help higher management to take decision 

For create your next IT cloud strategy feel free to contact me on viralpala@gmail.com may be I can guide you to save the cost and help you to design your Enterprise cloud migration .

Thanks 

Viral Pala , PMP

viralpala@gmail.com