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  • What would Stack Exchange's yearly expenses be if it were to be using a third party host?

    - by abel
    StackExchange manages it's own servers, as it should, but if SE were to be hosted on a 3rd party "cloud" hosting (like Amazon's), what would it's monthly / yearly expenses be(keeping everything else the same)? A detailed answer comparing it to the bills that Stackexchange boots currently (including power/property/staff) would help. (PS: I know that the blog is a good resource. I also understand that managing your own hosting is almost the same as setting up a hosting company and using it for your own needs. Plus is this a question for meta or does it fit within serverfault's purview?)

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  • SEO - folder or file [closed]

    - by ErmSo
    Possible Duplicate: Should I use a file extension or not? I'm creating a website with a number of pricing options. Each price plan has it's own page and there is also a comparison page. As far as SEO is concerned, which of the following is better? or does it not make a difference? Option one - folders /pricing/plans /pricing/plans/free Option two- files /pricing/plans.php /pricing/free-plan.php

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  • Selling an app to a company - How much to charge?

    - by Moshe
    I wrote an app targeting a particular clientele. A software company with a reputation among my target audience is willing to negotiate a price to either license or buy it. As a newcomer to the app store, I am not sure that I will successfully market it myself. What would be appropriate terms of a sale or license and what about pricing? I am looking for answers that draw from personal experience with software, although not necessarily apps. I've seen this post on SO, but it's a few years old and I assume that the app market has changed and stabilized somewhat. Thanks.

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  • Where should I host my static websites, preferably with pay as you go pricing? [duplicate]

    - by Peter
    This question already has an answer here: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? 4 answers I have many static websites that I want to host, they only have html, css, js files and images. I'm looking for a simple hosting solution preferably with pay as you pricing, my sites don't have any traffic yet, but I'm expecting high traffic on some of them. So what hosting solution should I be looking for ?

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  • How to do fixed price quote for design sessions?

    - by Shaul
    Normally when I do a system for a customer, I do design sessions on an hourly rate and then come out with a fixed price quotation for the full system development. Now this customer has thrown me a curveball: he doesn't want an hourly rate for design, either - he wants me to quote a fixed price to do all the design, too! Not that he's trying to cheap out, but he doesn't want to be in a situation where the longer design stretches out, the more he has to pay - and I can understand that. For the business layer it was actually not too difficult to work with this, because from his original functional spec I got a good idea of what the core business objects were, and in our design agreement I defined several objects which would be covered by a fixed design price; if any new non-trivial objects were discovered, they would be considered variances, and those would be billed on an hourly rate. So far so good. But when it comes to the UI, things start getting a lot more woolly. How many screens will there be? Don't know yet. What's going to be on each screen? Don't know yet. All we know is that it's a "dashboard" type of system, and there will be a lot of visual reporting involved e.g. gauges, graphs, etc. So maybe make it fixed price per screen design? Not a great definition; he might say that everything is going to be on one screen. Maybe a price per "visual report" design, including ability to slice & dice? Again not so easy - it might be that the entire system is just one report, and all the intelligence is going to go into how to present that segmentation. Anyone have any ideas how to do a fixed price quotation for a UI design like this?

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  • How can I script an alert for when my Amazon Web Service usage goes above a certain amount?

    - by frabcus
    We're using S3, SimpleDB and SQS on quite a complicated project. I'd like to be able to automatically track their usage, to be sure we don't suddenly spend large amounts of money when we didn't intend to (perhaps because of a bug). Is there a way of reading the usage figures of all Amazon Web Services and/or the current real time dollar cost of an account from a script? Or any service or script which provides alerts based on that?

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  • Round prices up to nearest 5 after conversion in oscommerce

    - by Rhyso
    Hi there, A conversion question relating to prices in oscommerce: I am needing for a custom currency conversion to round the USD prices up to the nearest 5$ to avoid prices being displayed at silly prices such as $263. I am trying to convert to an int and round the following line : $curr-display_price($listing['products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($listing['products_tax_class_id'])); ( as for some reason the price is displayed as a string, im guessing to include the currency sign) However not having much luck. Does anybody know where the root conversion takes place as it might be easier for me to round() or ceil() from there when it is a raw integer Or any other ideas of how I can round the conversion? Thanks for any help Rhys Thomas

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  • How to handle downgrade subscription for SaaS application

    - by user635800
    I am currently launching a SaaS web application. I want to have subscription packages such as: Premium: 5 users, 20 widgets, 20 MB storage Basic: 2 users, 10 widgets, 50 MB storage I want to allow companies to upgrade and downgrade packages at any time. The problem I am having is what if the company is on the premium package and has 5 users, 20 widgets, and wants to downgrade to the "basic" package. How do I handle that? Do I flag an error and say "You cannot downgrade" or do I take them to a page to remove the "extra" users and widgets? Any advice or examples of how other companies do it would be great!!

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  • Adjust price to demand: Simplest way

    - by marco92w
    For a game I need to adjust a price to the given demand. There's a shop which sells one item. If lots of people buy the item, the price should increase. If less people buy it, the price should decrease. How could I achieve this? This is just a little part of the game so I don't need a perfect solution. Just a very easy solution which does it so that the price is adjusted. Something like this: For every sold item, increase the price by 1,000 On every day, decrease the price by 1,500 (only one time) Don't let the price become negative Thank you very much in advance!

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  • How Much Does Source Code Cost? Range?

    - by Brain Freeze
    I have taken a job selling a customized "online workplace management application." Our clients' businesses work around the application. Our clients track their time (which is how they get paid), finances and work documents through the application we provide and give their clients access to their interests throught the application. Our clients range from 2 users to 500 users. Each user probably processes 200 files per year and generates a fee for each file in the range of $500-$2500 per file. The application has been refined over a period of years and has cost around a million to develop. Does anyone know what range something like this sells for (source code, add-ons such as support and hosting)? I am trying to wrap my head around it as my background is not in software development.

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  • Need help in filtering the data with various condition and filling in scroll window GP

    - by Rahul
    Hi all, I am filtering the data and displaying in scroll window. There are many combination to display this data by customer id, customer id and itemnumber, customer id, itemnumber, work and history condition. And from date and To date condition. My query is when I am selecting the customer id and work or history table it should display the corresponding data. Like select * from price history where customerid=’custid’ and name=’Work’. It should display in scroll only these values none other it the same way history condition should work. Work and History are in check box. In my case whatever range I am selecting whether Work and History always loading with entire data, so it’s not filtering properly. My second problem is if I select from date and keep empty to date …in this case all the data should display from selected from date to end of table data. But I am not getting….pls somebody help me here is my entire coding: if empty('Customer Number') then warning "Select Customer ID"; focus 'Customer Number'; abort script; end if; if '(L) RadioGroup4' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'=1 then if empty(Date) then abort script; focus Date; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') then if '(L) Date' {if not empty(Date) and empty('(L) Date') then warning"Please enter To Date"; focus field '(L) Date'; abort script; end if;} range clear table Display_Pricing_Temp; clear field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range start table Display_Pricing_Temp; fill field 'Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing_Temp; range end table Display_Pricing_Temp; remove range table Display_Pricing_Temp; range clear table Display_Pricing; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and empty('Item Code' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') and str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')="0/0/0000" then {range clear table Display_Pricing;} range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' or "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work')"; {range clear table Display_Pricing;} end if; if '(L) Checkbox0' =true or '(L) Checkbox2'=true then {{Only Item No is there} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str('(L) Date')="0/0/0000" then range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"'"; end if; } if empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) "; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102)" ; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; if not empty('(L) Date') and not empty(Date) then {Only Item No is there and work} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist item} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work hist } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and ("+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' or " +physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History')and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date,work,item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history item code} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date work} {date,work} if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and not empty(Date) then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {date history } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)<"0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History' and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20)," +physicalname(Date of table Display_Pricing)+"),102) between convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str(Date of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry')+ "'),102) and convert(datetime,convert(varchar(20),'"+ str('(L) Date' of window Window1 of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry') +"'),102)"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; end if; {Only Item No is there and hist} if not empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname('Item Number' of table Display_Pricing)+ "='"+ str('Item Code')+"' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only work table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =true and '(L) Checkbox2'=false and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='Work'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; {for only hist table } if empty('Item Code') and '(L) Checkbox0' =false and '(L) Checkbox2'=true and str(Date)="0/0/0000" then range clear table Display_Pricing; range table Display_Pricing where physicalname('Customer Number' of table Display_Pricing) + "= '" + str('Customer Number' of window Window1) + "' and "+ physicalname(Name of table Display_Pricing)+ "='History'"; range clear table Display_Pricing; end if; get first table Display_Pricing; if err() = OKAY then repeat copy from table Display_Pricing to table Display_Pricing_Temp; save table Display_Pricing_Temp; get next table Display_Pricing; until err() = EOF; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; else clear window Price_Scroll of form 'Customer Pricing Inquiry'; end if; fill window Price_Scroll table Display_Pricing_Temp by number 1;

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  • How can I use Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+)

    - by Rad The Mad
    How can I use/setup Tier Pricing with Configurable Products? (Magento 1.4+) There was an extension to do this but I think it is only for Magento 1.3. Tried to setup tiers in my Simple Products, but those do not show up, or do not activate when I add to cart from my Config Product page. Any help is appreciated! Thanks. Edit: In my case, I would like to use the Tier Pricing FROM the Simple Product. and not use the Tier Pricing from the Config. Product

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  • Why do AWS spot-instance prices spike above the "on demand" pricing?

    - by Laykes
    Amazon Pricing on Spot Instance Inconsistencies This is something which will be best explained through screenshots of a historical chart of instance pricings. If you look at a lot of the instance prices for spot instances, you will notice regular patterns of spikes. See here: As you can see, the price for this compute medium instance, regularly spikes above the on demand price. A c1.medium instance (on demand), would only cost $0.186 per hour. But for a period of a few weeks, in zone B, the price would regularly spike to $1.20. This is some 6 times the actual on demand price. It's also not isolated. If you look at zone-b again for small instances, there is a similar, spike frequently. Which goes 4x the on demand pricing. Does anyone know why this happens? Here are a few suggestions Someone entered $1.2 instead of $0.12 (I would discount this since it happened 20 times over the space of 3 weeks). Amazon regularly artifically inflate their prices by bidding on their own instances to get the most bang for their buck. (I would discount this since it would be ridiculous and bad business) Some company launched 1000 servers at once, and wants to make sure that they all launch. (I would discount this since they would presumably launch them at a price which would be below the minimum on demand price. Why would you pay above on demand for a single server?). It's a bug in their reporting?

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  • Oracle's ODF Plug-in Pricing: What's up with That?

    <b>Standards Blog:</b> "It does leave open one tantalizing question though, that's harder to read: does the decision to charge for the plug-in indicate that Oracle is taking its ODF-compliant office suite unit seriously as a money maker, and plans to put serious resources behind it..."

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  • Do MSDN subscriptions count as licenses for the purposes of upgrade pricing?

    - by Roger Lipscombe
    To qualify for upgrade pricing of Expression Studio... You must be a licensed user of one of the following products to be eligible for the upgrade versions. Any Microsoft® Expression product Any Adobe Creative Suite product Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or later I've got a boxed, retail copy of Visual Studio 2003, so it appears I've missed that particular boat. On the other hand, I've got an MSDN Professional subscription, which includes Visual Studio. Does this copy of Visual Studio entitle me to upgrade pricing on Expression Studio? Given that you can't get Visual Studio without an MSDN subscription, I figure it does, but I can't find anything definitive.

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  • Tools for managing eCommerce backend

    - by rboarman
    I am working with an eCommerce company that has outgrown their hacked together backend for managing inventory, pricing and feeds to various shopping engines (Yahoo, 3d cart, Amazon, etc.). They currently manage about 12,000 skus and are doing $40M in revenue. Their internal people are working on a new Magento solution, but that is six months away and they need to replace/improve their current solution in order to hold them over. Their current solution was developed by two people who have left the company. What tools/architecture do other eCommerce sites use to manage their inventory, pricing, product descriptions and feed generation for the shopping engines? The current solution looks like this: 1) Inventory, pricing and product descriptions are maintained in a database and in NetSuite by employees 2) New products are added to the database via import 3) Twice a week data is extracted into a giant Excel spreadsheet 4) The Excel file adjusts pricing based on some simple algorithms 5) The Excel file exports about six different csv feeds which are manually uploaded to Amazon, 3d cart, Yahoo, Google and Merchant Advantage a. Each feed is a variant of the product which different field names and formatting b. Pricing levels differ between feeds c. Some products are not sent to all feeds 6) Orders are manually parsed and the inventory is adjusted as needed once product is sold The new solution should: 1) Import data from ODBC, CSV and NetSuite (CSV via ftp) 2) Apply pricing changes via simple algorithms (< $80 add $10, $200 add $25) 3) Ensure margins are being met 4) Format and generate a bunch of CSV and XML feeds 5) Perhaps upload feeds to shopping engines automatically What I need to do is replace the Excel file with something that is maintainable and automated. Something in the .Net stack is preferable but not mandatory. I’ve been looking at BizTalk but it may take too long to develop and deploy. Any suggestions?

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  • What library should I use for financial product pricing?

    - by watkins
    I work in software division of a large bank and we are considering writing our own financial library. However, before we embark in such a project, I want to check that there is no such library on the market. We would need to have the following feature: Pricing of derivative products (options, futures, swaps, etc) Different financial models Hedging / risk management Open source would be great if it's stable. Otherwise, we would purchase the source code. We are looking for C#/.NET.

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  • Best way to implement user-powered data validation

    - by vegetables
    I run a product recommendation engine and I'm hitting a few snags. I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on what I should do to minimize these issues. Here's how the site works: Users come to the site and are presented with product recommendations based on some criteria. If a user knows of a product that is not in our system, they can add it by providing the product name and manufacturer. We take that information, and: Hit one API to gather all the product meta-data (and to validate the product spelling, etc). If the product is not in this first API, we do not allow it in our system. Use the information from step 1 to hit another API for pricing information (gathered from many places online). For the sake of discussion, assume that I am searching both APIs in the most efficient/successful manner possible. For the most part, this works very well. I'd say ~80% of our data is perfectly accurate, but there are a few issues: Sometimes the pricing API (Step 2) doesn't have any information for the product. The way the pricing API is built, it will always return something (theoretically, the closest possible match), and there's no guarantee that the product name is spelled exactly the same way in both APIs, so there's no automated way of knowing if it's the right product. When the pricing API finds the right product, occasionally it has outdated, or even invalid pricing data (e.g. if it screen-scraped the wrong price from a website). Since the site was fairly small at first, I was able to manually verify every product that was added to the website. However, the site has grown to the point where this is taking several hours per day, and is just not efficient use of my time. So, my question is: Aside from hiring someone (or getting an intern) to validate all the data manually, what would be the best system of letting my userbase self-manage the data. Specifically, how can I allow users to edit the data while minimizing the risk of someone ambushing my website, or accidentally setting the data incorrectly.

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  • Price Drop for Processor based License on Exalytics

    - by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM
    ·       33% reduction in the list `per processor` license pricing for the Oracle BI Foundation Suite ·       New capacity-based licensing which allows customers to think big & start small, significantly lowering the entry price point for an Exalytics. Oracle BI Software List Price changes In response to new powerful platforms like the in-memory Oracle Exalytics with 40 cpu cores (counted under Oracle pricing policy as 20 “processors”), the list price of “Oracle BI Foundation Suite” (BIFS) is reduced by 33% from $450K per processor to $300K per processor. Capacity-based licensing on Exalytics (Trusted Partitions) “Capacity-based pricing” for the BIFS, Endeca, Essbase and Times Ten for Exalytics software is now available for Exalytics systems. This is delivered using “Oracle VM” (OVM).  We still ship a full Exalytics machine to all customers, but they may choose to only use and license a subset of the processors installed in the machine.   Customers can license Exalytics software in units of 5 “processors”: 5, 10, 15 or the full capacity 20.   As the customer’s implementation and workload increases, it is a simple matter to license additional processors and, using OVM, make them available to the BI or EPM application. Endeca Information Discovery now available on Exalytics Oracle has also announced the certification of “Oracle Endeca Information Discovery” (EID) on the Exalytics machine.    EID can be licensed alone or in combination with the BIFS & Times Ten for an Exalytics stack, and also participates in the capacity based pricing outlined above.   The Exalytics hardware is the perfect platform for EID, and provides superb power and performance for this in-memory hybrid text-search-analytics.   For more information : Oracle Price lists Oracle Partitioning Policy Discussion by Mark Rittman (Rittman Mead Consulting ltd.) on Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Exalytics and Updated BI Foundation Pricing.

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  • How to make a table structure for products to be available for both wholesale and retail?

    - by kmy
    Ignoring the different column details like colors, shapes, and sizes, I already have an idea of dealing with that, I'm more interested in dealing with retail pricing, whole pricing (with or without a table), and possibly discount. If anything, I want to know what I should also take account for. Will it just be adding a quantity column, two pricing cols, and two discount columns, and a quantity limit? If I were to add a pricing table it would be inserted as a json file, would this be a bad idea? Please give any insight about this.

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  • Guest blog: A Closer Look at Oracle Price Analytics by Will Hutchinson

    - by Takin Babaei
    Overview:  Price Analytics helps companies understand how much of each sale goes into discounts, special terms, and allowances. This visibility lets sales management see the panoply of discounts and start seeing whether each discount drives desired behavior. In Price Analytics monitors parts of the quote-to-order process, tracking quotes, including the whole price waterfall and seeing which result in orders. The “price waterfall” shows all discounts between list price and “pocket price”. Pocket price is the final price the vendor puts in its pocket after all discounts are taken. The value proposition: Based on benchmarks from leading consultancies and companies I have talked to, where they have studied the effects of discounting and started enforcing what many of them call “discount discipline”, they find they can increase the pocket price by 0.8-3%. Yes, in today’s zero or negative inflation environment, one can, through better monitoring of discounts, collect what amounts to a price rise of a few percent. We are not talking about selling more product, merely about collecting a higher pocket price without decreasing quantities sold. Higher prices fall straight to the bottom line. The best reference I have ever found for understanding this phenomenon comes from an article from the September-October 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review called “Managing Price, Gaining Profit” by Michael Marn and Robert Rosiello of McKinsey & Co. They describe the outsized impact price management has on bottom line performance compared to selling more product or cutting variable or fixed costs. Price Analytics manages what Marn and Rosiello call “transaction pricing”, namely the prices of a given transaction, as opposed to what is on the price list or pricing according to the value received. They make the point that if the vendor does not manage the price waterfall, customers will, to the vendor’s detriment. It also discusses its findings that in companies it studied, there was no correlation between discount levels and any indication of customer value. I urge you to read this article. What Price Analytics does: Price analytics looks at quotes the company issues and tracks them until either the quote is accepted or rejected or it expires. There are prebuilt adapters for EBS and Siebel as well as a universal adapter. The target audience includes pricing analysts, product managers, sales managers, and VP’s of sales, marketing, finance, and sales operations. It tracks how effective discounts have been, the win rate on quotes, how well pricing policies have been followed, customer and product profitability, and customer performance against commitments. It has the concept of price waterfall, the deal lifecycle, and price segmentation built into the product. These help product and sales managers understand their pricing and its effectiveness on driving revenue and profit. They also help understand how terms are adhered to during negotiations. They also help people understand what segments exist and how well they are adhered to. To help your company increase its profits and revenues, I urge you to look at this product. If you have questions, please contact me. Will HutchinsonMaster Principal Sales Consultant – Analytics, Oracle Corp. Will Hutchinson has worked in the business intelligence and data warehousing for over 25 years. He started building data warehouses in 1986 at Metaphor, advancing to running Metaphor UK’s sales consulting area. He also worked in A.T. Kearney’s business intelligence practice for over four years, running projects and providing training to new consultants in the IT practice. He also worked at Informatica and then Siebel, before coming to Oracle with the Siebel acquisition. He became Master Principal Sales Consultant in 2009. He has worked on developing ROI and TCO models for business intelligence for over ten years. Mr. Hutchinson has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.

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