Amazon.com: Retailer Profile with IT Spending by Geography
June 2017
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About the Report
About the Report
Amazon.com: Retailer Profile with IT Spending by Geography
Summary
"Amazon.com: Retailer Profile with IT Spending by Geography", report provides a technology overview of Amazon.com, including its ICT spend for 2016, information on key IT decision makers, and its primary IT contracts. Furthermore, the report focuses on the IT strategies adopted by the retailer, in order to provide actionable insights for ICT vendors and service providers when pitching their solutions to the company.
Amazon.com (Amazon) is an American eCommerce retailer and technology services provider (Amazon Web Services, or AWS). It offers a wide range of products with the main focus on books, media, electronics goods and general merchandise. Amazon's eCommerce business is complemented with its Marketplace for third-party retailers and the Prime delivery service, which contribute to the continuous growth of its business. Amazon is continuously expanding its operations by increasing products and services and enhancing infrastructure to support its retail and services businesses. Amazon's ability to innovate and adopt new technologies has revolutionized the retail industry to a great extent. The retailer can offer a better shopping experience through analytics, which caters to customers' individual requirements by understanding their preferences and ever-changing needs.
Scope
Amazon is a leader in data centers and cloud computing, both for its eCommerce operations, as well as through Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers computing and storage resources for enterprises and governments around the world, as well as analytics and business intelligence solutions
Amazon is expanding into physical grocery and book stores with innovative concepts such as the checkout-free Amazon Go stores
Amazon wants to establish itself as an advanced technology leader by introducing IoT based order systems, voice recognition technology, mobile payment services, artificial intelligence services and security technologies
Reasons to buy
Get a detailed understanding of Amazon's IT spending by technology and geography, and its strategic and IT related priorities. This profile can help you target the retailer with tailored solutions and access the right decision-makers.
Products
Products
Retail, retailer, eTail, eTailer, eCommerce, platform, delivery, omnichannel, datacenter, fulfillment, distribution, database, analytics
Companies
Amazon
Whole Foods
AWS
Souq.com
harvest.ai
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 3
2 Regional and Country Operations4
2.1 Overview 4
2.2 Amazon US 4
2.3 Amazon UK 5
2.4 Amazon Germany 6
2.5 Amazon Canada 7
2.6 Amazon Mexico 7
2.7 Amazon France 8
2.8 Amazon Italy 8
2.9 Amazon Netherlands 8
2.10 Amazon Spain 9
2.11 Amazon China 9
2.12 Amazon India 10
2.13 Amazon Japan 11
2.14 Amazon Australia 11
2.15 Amazon Brazil 12
3 Financial Information 13
3.1 Financial Breakdown of Countries Covered 13
3.2 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-Global 14
3.3 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-US 15
3.4 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-Germany 16
3.5 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-UK 17
3.6 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-Japan 18
3.7 Estimated IT Budgets for 2016-India 19
4 ICT Decision Making Hierarchy 20
5 IT Services Contracts 21
5.1 Services Contracts 21
5.2 Software Contracts 21
6 Amazon's Physical Stores and Drive-ins 22
7 Fulfillment and Sortation Centers 24
8 Data Centers and AWS 27
9 Advances in Analytics and Insight 29
10 Amazon's Strategies 30
10.1 Acquisition as a Growth Strategy 30
10.2 What is Amazon Investing in? 31
11 Technological Advance 32
11.1 Amazon Introduces IoT Based Ordering Systems 32
11.2 Amazon Takes a Leap into Voice Recognition Capabilities 32
11.3 Amazon Payment Services 33
11.4 Amazon Relational Database Service 33
11.5 Artificial Intelligence Services 34
11.6 Amazon Content Delivery Network 34
11.7 Security and Compliance Technologies 35
12 Appendix 38
12.1 Definitions 38
12.2 Further reading 42
12.3 Contact the authors 43
12.4 Contact Us 44
List of Figure
List of Figures
Figure 1: Amazon's facilities count by region (in absolute figures) 25
Figure 2: Amazon's facility types (in absolute figures) 26
List of Table
List of Tables
Table 1: Consolidated Income Statement (in US$ millions) 13
Table 2: Net Sales (in US$ millions) by Business Segment .13
Table 3: Consolidated Income Statement (in US$ millions) by Region 13
Table 4: Global-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 14
Table 5: US-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 15
Table 6: Germany-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 16
Table 7: UK-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 17
Table 8: Japan-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 18
Table 9: India-ICT Spend Predictions (in US$ million) 19
Table 10: IT Services-BPO 21
Table 11: IT Services-IT Security, Web Security 21
Table 12: Planned Technology Priorities (Part 1) 36
Table 13: Planned Technology Priorities (Part 2) 37
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