Abstract
Along with the growth of the Internet, the trend shows that e-commerce have been growing significantly in the last several years. This means business opportunities for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), which are recognized as the backbone of the economy. SMEs may develop and run small to medium size of particular e-commerce websites as the solution of specific business opportunities. Certainly, the websites should be developed accordingly to support business success. In developing the websites, key elements of e-commerce business model that are necessary to ensure the success should be resolved at the requirement stage of the development. In this paper, we propose an enhancement of requirement analysis method found in literatures such that it includes activities to resolve the key elements. The method has been applied in three case studies based on Indonesia situations and we conclude that it is suitable to be adopted by SMEs.
Highlights
It is well recognized that small-medium enterprises (SMEs) are significant to the worldwide socio-economic development
We find that the eight key elements of e-commerce business model defined in [8] as the success keys must be resolved at the requirement stage
From the survey results it can be concluded that: (a) Pets keepers are interested in posting ads in websites as it raise benefits; (b) In general, users are not satisfied with the existing websites; (c) Pets keepers are willing to pay some fee for advertising their pets
Summary
It is well recognized that small-medium enterprises (SMEs) are significant to the worldwide socio-economic development. There are several approaches of software development, such as water-fall, prototyping, spiral, agile, and so on [2] Each of these will basically include stages of requirement, system analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance. In the context of SMEs who will set up new e-commerce businesses, the required websites that will be developed should significantly support their success. We design the proposed enhanced requirement analysis method, apply the method to three case studies based on Indonesia environment (the requirements resulting from the applying the method are used in developing website prototypes), and evaluate the method. This paper is organized as the following: Introduction, literature study (software requirement, development of e-commerce website and key elements of e-commerce business model), proposed methods, case studies, method evaluation, and conclusion. In the appendix we include detailed results of two case studies
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