{"id":47,"date":"2011-10-07T01:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-11-25T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T09:16:17","slug":"47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/2011\/10\/07\/47\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupon Uses New Technology To Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since its initial launch in 2008, Groupon has expanded into an internationally renown daily-deal website that is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-17\/groupon-is-said-to-discuss-ipo-valuation-of-up-to-25-billion.html\">valued up to $25 billion dollars<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/05\/16\/groupon-citydeal-europe\/\">The acquisition of Citydeal<\/a>, the European equivalent of Groupon, has also helped the company with its international growth. However, the e-business continues its success by relying on information technology and management information systems to execute the daily operations needed to run the business efficiently.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sparksheet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/groupon-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the group coupon works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountingweb.co.uk\/topic\/technology\/groupon-ditches-excel-netsuite\/498378\"><br \/>\nGroupon deploys NetSuite<\/a>, the online management system that provides accounting programs, in many of its operating countries. This cost-effective software allows the company to keep track of its financial records in a simple manner, as it is easy for a company that has grown this rapidly to lose track of their financial reportings. In essence, it provides sufficient capacity for growth at the global level. Consumer patterns are analyzed with a system called <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudtimes.org\/groupon-to-deploy-vertica-analytics-platform-on-amazon-ec2-solution\/\">Vertica Analytics Platform<\/a>. It is quite essential for a company that is run exclusively online to incorporate systems that will report and measure a high volume of transactions that occur daily. These consumer behaviors assist with developments in creating target markets and increasing customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since its initial launch in 2008, Groupon has expanded into an internationally renown daily-deal website that is currently valued up to $25 billion dollars. The acquisition of Citydeal, the European equivalent of Groupon, has also helped the company with its international growth. However, the e-business continues its success by relying on information technology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alicecheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}