Langues appliquées - Anglais : Economie, gestion, droit, AES - 4e - 126

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R platform system providing a technological architecture that allows different types of users and
complementary business partners to connect and benefit from the platform's base functionality
R technological architecture the overall structure, logical components and logical
interrelationships of a computer, an operating system, a network or any other conception
R business partners two or more companies that cooperate to some extent
R complementors external companies or entrepreneurs that build products and services to
run on a platform and that increase the platform's attractiveness; app entrepreneurs
R functionality what a software or any other product can do for the user
R game console small computer designed chiefly for playing games
R software organized information in the form of operating systems, utilities, programs and
applications that give instructions to computers
R software developers companies involved in creating and maintaining computer programs
and applications
R platform theory set of principles underlying platform-based business models
R challengers companies actively trying to obtain the market shares of their competitors with
the purpose of taking up the leadership in their industry; market challengers
R network externalities degree to which platform attractiveness grows
R installed base number of consumers using a platform; user base
R social network a website or software program that enables people who share similar interests
to communicate with each other by posting text and pictures; social networking site, social
media network
R subsidies (2) indirect financial contribution made by companies such as offering discount
vouchers aimed at attracting new users and keeping existing ones
R features the distinctive characteristics of goods or services that set them apart from similar
items.
R competition rivalry between two or more business enterprises to secure a market share or
to win new markets at each other's expense; business rivalry
R license permission to make, sell or simply use a product on a non-exclusive basis, and
subject to outlined conditions
R software tools computer programs used for developing, maintaining or upgrading the
performance of other programs or of pieces of hardware
R technological support assistance to professionals aimed at upgrading their scientific
knowledge and capabilities in using a particular technology
R technical support assistance to users having problems with their electronic devices
R proprietary sold or distributed under the exclusive rights of owners
R Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology that allows voice to be carried over Internet
connections or other networks, not specifically designed to carry voice, using Internet
Protocols (IP); VoIP
R providers individuals or companies offering goods or services; suppliers
R bundle put together as one unit and to be sold at no extra cost
R platform envelopment the fact for a platform to bundle the functionality of another smaller
and financially weaker platform and make the latter virtually irrelevant to the market
R operating system computer master program which automatically works when a computer
is switched on and which remains in the background to control other programs until it is
switched off; OS
R download transfer data from remote or host computers to local or client ones
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