Amazon is widely respected throughout the e-commerce industry for choosing to build one of the most advanced distributed order management and procurement systems that could order just a single book, before they actually created their websites (Barsauskas, Sarapovas, Cvilikas, 2008). This gave Jeff Bezos and Amazon an immediate competitive advantage against the many other e-commerce competitors who only relied on the websites themselves without paying attention making fulfillment reliable and cost-effective (Kelley, Hora, Margheim, 2010). Amazon set a new standard with e-commerce system design and development. These improvements continue to revolutionize the back-office aspects of e-commerce today. The convergence of the three factors mentioned in this analysis are accelerating today with the advent of cloud computing and mobility. E-commerce continues to change quickly in response to these strategic trends impacting how customers shop, but and share online. The pace of acceleration on mobility especially shows significant potential, following a comparable...

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