An architectural perspective on service adoption: A platform design and the case of pluggable cross-border trade compliance in e-commerce

Abstract

Current e-commerce architectures rely on a small number of monolithic application systems. The adoption of innovative IT functionality within these architectures is a tedious and complex task. The purpose of this article is to present a design for a novel platform architecture to improve the pluggability of e-commerce services. More precisely, the pluggability of services in current architectures is described, a platform architecture is introduced, and its effect on pluggability is evaluated by means of a prototype. The enablers for this architecture are the recent innovations of web programming interfaces, delegated resource access, and client-side web application frameworks. Those technologies are common in social media and their potential in enterprise computing is revealed in this work, based on the example of a trade compliance service for cross-border retail. The results of this study suggest that the architectural design has merits as it improves the pluggability of e-commerce services. Hence, e-commerce companies should consider a paradigm shift and move from using self-contained application components to a platform-based adoption of complementary services.

Content Delivery Networks in Cross-border e-Commerce

“…Different characteristics like gender, education, computer skills, nationality and trust in reviews positively www.ijacsa.thesai.org influence the CBEC [50]. A novel platform architecture to improve the pluggability of e-commerce services was proposed and checked on the example of a trade compliance service for cross-border retail [51]. Study on cross-border e-commerce in European environment and description of its current status emphasise how e-tailers should be prepared for sustainable cross-border e-commerce in the EU [52].…”

Platform-based collaboration in digital ecosystems

“…Intermediaries offer another way of reducing complexity by outsourcing the collaboration logic. The resulting collaboration services can be maintained by service providers, which act as domain experts for particular collaboration scenarios (Aulkemeier et al 2017;Sherer and Adams 2001). Another advantage of relying on intermediaries is the higher possibility of discovering new business opportunities (Giaglis et al 2002).…”

Pemodelan Sistem Informasi Order Fullfillment Pada Perusahaan Diesel Menggunakan Enterprise Architecture Planning Archimate

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