Paper Title
OSOaR: e-Collaborative Portal for Outlet Store Owners and Retailers
Abstract
The paper intended the development of an e-Collaborative Portal that will provide better communication between the Outlet Store Owners and Retailers to expand and grow their businesses. As technology arises as well as the number of internet savvy, social media tools also emerge. Through these social media tools, business opportunities arise, online businesses emerged rapidly as the entrepreneurs find it easy to use to advertise their business. Also, it has led to widespread the use of collaboration tool, portals and computerized support systems in various activities. The e-Collaborative Portal application allows the entrepreneurs input their business information, wherein they can advertise their stores spaces, products, services offered to grow their network and have more engagements. This will also have a collaborative tool wherein the users can communicate with each other to finalize their business connection or partnership. Lastly it has a connection indicator that helps the merchants in deciding who will be their business partners based on their own preference by looking who are the connected merchants with their chosen business partner.
General Terms: e-Collaboration, Communication Tool, Business toBusiness
Keywords - Collaborative tool, portal, retailers, outlet store owners, brand partners,