E-commerceNEED TO DEVELOP AN E-COMMERCE STORE.Engaging customers with infusing technology and innovative solutions is the thumb rule to raise an online store. Except this, what adds to its success is:

Discoverability User experience Responsiveness

Flipkart meets the above mentioned standards perfectly and thus happens to be one of the most saleable ecommerce brands of India.“It is not the idea that defines our success, it’s how we bring it forth”.

They make sure that your business presents exclusivity. Since the customers cannot see or feel your products in real, online shopping ought to give the similar comfort virtually.

Business to Customer (B2C).

Business to Customer (B2C), sometimes referred to as Business to Consumer, describes the activities of businesses in selling products and/or services.

For example, someone buying a television set from an electronics retailer would be a B2C transaction. The

transaction preceding this, e.g., the purchase of components, screens, plastics etc. by the manufacturer, and the sale of the set from the manufacturer to the retailer would be B2B transactions.

A Birth of flipkart.comWhat is Flipkart?Flipkart is an Indian ecommerce store having its nerve center at Bangalore. With its annual sales of Rs 2,000 cr the company stands as one of the bestselling online store in India.  A small online business, initiated as a book store, today sells almost 20 products per minute that include everything from mobiles, clothing, footwear, toys, home furnishings, accessories to eBooks.

History of flipkart.com Flipkart was established in 2007 by Sachin Bansal

and Binny Bansal, both alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

It is registered in Singapore and it operates in India, where it is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Flipkart Has launched its own product range under the name “DigiFlip” with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags.

Both the founder worked for Amazon.com before quitting and founding their own company.

Initially they used word of mouth marketing to popularize their company.

In May 2014, Flipkart received $210 million from DST Global and in July it raised $1 billion led by existing investors Tiger Global and South Africa’s media group Naspers.

Flipkart’s last fundraising round in December had pegged its valuation valuation at $12 billion.

The first product sold by them was the book “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World”, bought by V V K Chandra from Andhra Pradesh.

Flipkart now employs more than 16000 people.

Finance Initially, they had spent Rs. 400,000 only for

making website to set up the business. Later it raised funding from venture capital funds

“Accel India” and “Tiger Global”. On 24th August 2012, Flipkart announced the

completion of its 4th round of $150 million funding from “MIH” (part if Naspers Group) and “ICONIQ Capital”.

On October 2013, it was reported that flipkart had raised an additional $160 million from new investors “Dragoneer Investment Group”, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Sofina SA and Vulcan Inc. with participation from existing investors Tiger Global.

On 6th October 2014, Flipkart sold products worth INR 650Crore in 10 hours in special one-day event- “The Big Billion Day”, claiming they had created e-commerce history.

Acquisitions 2010: WEREAD, a social book discovery tool. 2011: Mime360, a digital content platform

company. 2011: Chakpak.com is a Bollywood news site that

offers update, news, photos and videos. 2012: Letsbuy.com is India’s second largest e-

retailer in electronics.

Flipkart Warehouse Flipkart has offices, warehouse and customer

service centre across India. Warehouse are located in the following cities, often near airports.

Bangalore. Chennai. Delhi. Hyderabad. Mumbai. Noida. Pune. Kolkata.

On the flip Side

General Tech-support.

1. MAKING OF THE SAVED CARD FEATURE:-

A click on time saves nine. It may actually save more than nine i.e around 20 seconds, if we use the saved card option on Flipkart.com.

2. MAKING DELIVERIES FASTER- THE FLIPKART CACHE CLUSTER:-In the first of a blog series under the title “making Deliveries Fast”, we’ll talk about the flipkart Cache Cluster- one of the key infrastructures that helps sustain the Flipkart website experience at scale.

3. EXPONENTIAL WORLD:- From scaling of database, to scaling of message system, to demand forecasting, inventory planning to operation planning for, and even staffing.

4. INTRODUCING FOXTROT:-Foxtrot is a system built to ingest store and analyse rich events for multiple systems, providing aggregated metrics as well as the ability to slice, dice and drill down into raw events.Foxtrot provide a configurable console to get a view of systems; enables people to dig into as well as aggregate raw events across hosts and/or client devices; and provide a familiar SQL based language to interact with the system both from the console as well as from the command line.

5. INTRODUCING AESOP:-Aesop is a keen observer of changes that can also relay change events reliably to interested parties. It provide useful infrastructure for

building Eventually Consistent data sources and systems.

6. CASSANDRA DESIGNED:-Online loading balancing and cluster growth, flexible scheme, key oriented queries, CAP aware, No SPF, DC and rackaware, row and key caching.

7. Abhishek Kona, ex-Flipkart Engineer has revealed that Flipkart does not depend on any fixed technology stacks rather aim at knowing which tool solves their problem best and use that one flexibly.  In his work tenure at Flipkart, he has used Java, Scala and pure python for different projects.

8. All their software run on Linux – Debian and most of other systems make use of JVM, even though they are not always created on Java.

9. Flipkart uses MySQL for data storage and Memcached for caching. The company has assessed top most No SQL data stores to pick the best for the production.

10. Hadoop is another software that Flipkart uses for various projects. It simplifies evaluation and data management.

Flipkart a Success.Engineers at Flipkart use A/B framework to test new ideas and implementations so that the upgraded functionality can be delivered to its customers.  It offers fast checkout, instant product search and Layered and Faceted Navigation that adds to its user experience.

Apart from the consistent ecommerce features, they have added innovation in their offers and discount section that adds to buyers’ confidence.

Appropriate space is dedicated to its Offers zone and deal of the day that fetches adequate attention of users.

Flipkart keeps a constant focus on new category creation and expansion of products.

Its ads and promotion activities motivate shoppers to buy online by delivering the idea of ease to them.

The complete user experience that they offer has brought them to point where the company has closed its fund raising at $360 million which includes additional $160 million to its fund count that was announced to be $200 million in July. The list of investors includes Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Sofina, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Vulcan Capital-alongside existing investor Tiger Global.

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Prepared by:-

Pinkey Gupta

CIMS B-SCHOOL.

OLXIntroductionOlx is an ecommerce company that is based in New York, USA and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company was co-founded in 2006 by Internet entrepreneurs Fabrice Grinda and Alec Oxenford.

The site offers free user- generated classified advertisements for urban population around the world. The ecommerce firm allows people to buy and sell products by posting advertisements.

Olx is a privately held firm and is spread across 105 countries and used in over 40 languages.

OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds.OLX provides a simple solution to the complications involved in selling, buying, trading, discussing, organizing, and meeting people near you, wherever you may reside.The company is operates two leading online classifieds networks hosted at:-

www.mundoanuncio.comwww.olx.com

OLX titles itself as the “next generation of free online classifieds”, a tagline that forms the basis of the reason behind its inception.

Olx India having the parent company in Argentina, OLX was launched in India in 2006 and it was among the early breed of internet businesses in the country.Olx is responsible for creating the customer to customer (C2C) selling market segment in India that did not exist earlier.

About the foundersFabrice Grinda• Fabrice Grinda is a French entrepreneur. He attended college at Princeton University. • Fabrice had worked in McKinsey & Co till 1998 and then founded Auckland SA, an online auction house in the style of eBay. He then founded Zingy, a mobile media company that was sold in 2004.• Fabrice is currently the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of OLX, founded in March 2006.

About the Indian TeamAmarjit BatraHe is associated with Olx since December 2008 and is the Country Head for Olx India and is also responsible for Business Development of Olx in other countries.

The Olx Indian team has 40 members. They take care of product development, marketing and customer experience.

Current Scenario of the companyOlx India came out with the latest release about the market share. The company claims to have captured 60% of the online classified market share. According to the company’s reports, its traffic has grown 55 times in the last 22 months and in July 2013, Olx’s site crossed half a billion page views. Olx.In’s two year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 653% is much ahead of the 32% CAGR for Indian Internet for the same two year period.Mobile traffic for Olx.in has grown from 5% of overall traffic in January 2012 to 52% of overall traffic in July 2013. Also Olx India mobile apps have crossed 3.2 Mn app downloads.We get about 120 million annual page views on Comscore and we estimate to get around 2.0 million ads every month on OLX.in, for now we have 6.7 mn+ ads that are live on the website. With this, Vehicles (Cars+Bikes) form a majority of the ads on Olx, other than Electronics and Mobile. Others are just trying to reach where we are, I think we have 60% market today. Even our awareness is three times more than Quikr in the market.

Features of OlxOLX provides a simple solution to the complications involved in selling, buying, trading, discussing, organizing, and meeting people near you, wherever you may reside.

On OLX you can: Easily design rich ads with pictures.Control your selling, buying, and community activity in My OLX Display your ads on your social networking profile (Facebook, Myspace, ...)Access the site from your mobile phoneView OLX in your local language

Presented by:- (GROUP A) Nikhil Kushwah.Pinkey Gupta