ACIS 1504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Page Layout, American Apparel, Spreadsheet

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Accounting and Information Systems
• Course: ACIS 1504
• Professor: Jean Lacoste

Document Summary

Can be taken care of on any network. Rei is an example: you can browse their catalog, check individual items, purche, pay for it online, and have it shipped. Ways to simulate the in store experience: second life: allows you to create an avatar, locations, and objects and you can interact with other avatars; you can look at different products. American apparel: you can have your avatar walk around the store and try clothes on and pay real money to buy the real clothing and shipped to you. 3. 2 billion $ worth of transactions: truefit: piece of software: clothing industry. Gather data from the consumer and retailer to find the best match. Asks consumer to describe themselves (height, weight, age, etc) and pull clothes from their own closet. Asks retailer sizes and styles but also returns data. True fit matches all the data and tries to find the best for the consumer.