Online Retailer Zalando has produced an amazing success story since its launch 7 years ago. In 2016, it generated a turnover of almost 4 billion euros and is one of the leaders in digital retail. But far from being satisfied with its success, it is taking a huge step by redefining its business model: Zalando envisions being a platform that functions as an operating system for the fashion world, with multiple ways of integrating all forms of fashion contributors and stakeholders. In this “platform business model”, Zalando is creating a hyper-connected business ecosystem of consumers, customers, partners and ‘connected things’.
IDC has analyzed what technological architecture is needed to support the constantly evolving business, digital and IT requirements. The resulting research paper “Introducing the Enterprise Digital Platform – Enabling the ‘Real Time Platform Business’”,which is sponsored by software company SAP, concludes that this platform is a cloud-first architecture consisting of a set of highly flexible building blocks based on innovative technologies. These blocks are represented by the multi-layer architecture that IDC believes digital platforms will have in common, regardless of the industry.
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June 02, 2017 at 05:53AM
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