Dell is the world's leading computer systems company. They design, build, and customize products and services to satisfy a range of customer requirements. They do more business directly with customers, one at a time, and believe that they do it better than anyone else. In its own business, Dell has enhanced and broadened the fundamental competitive advantages of the direct model by applying the efficiencies of the Internet. Dell led commercial migration to the Internet, launching www.dell.com in 1994 and adding e-commerce capability in 1996. The following year, Dell became the first company to record $1 million in daily online sales. Today, Dell operates one of the highest volume Internet commerce sites in the world based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems. The company's Web site, which runs entirely on Dell Power Edge servers, receives more than one billion page requests per quarter at 84 country sites in 28 languages/dialects and 29 currencies.
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English: Dell's tagline 'Yours is Here', as seen a...The company is increasingly realizing Internet-associated efficiencies throughout its business, including procurement, customer support and relationship management. At www.dell.com, customers may review, configure and price systems within Dell's entire product line; order systems online; and track orders from manufacturing through shipping. At valuechain.dell.com, Dell shares information with its suppliers on a range of topics, including product quality and inventory. Dell also uses the Internet to deliver industry-leading customer services. For instance, thousands of business and institutional customers worldwide use Dell's Premier Dell.com Web pages to do business with the company online.
Dell benefits greatly from using three major components to help their business strive, Direct Marketing, Advertising, and Sales Promotions. These are the keys that Dell uses to push their product.
"Beginning today, Dell Dimension and Inspiron systems will ship with CDs that contain AOL 4.0 software and include 100 free hours to use in the first...