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Explore a company using Enterprise systems and identify the key challenges they faced during Covid 19. (Converse)

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 Converse Introduction Converse is an American lifestyle brand, that most commonly distributes, and licenses sneakers, skating shoes, lifestyle brand footwear, apparel, and accessories. Converse was founded in 1908 and later bought by Nike in 2003. Today the company's portfolio includes products under the Converse, Cons, Chuck Taylor All-Star, Jack Purcell, One Star, and Star Chevron trademarks.  As of 2019, Converse sold products through 109 company-owned retail stores in the United States and 63 stores in international markets. The growth of Converse as a casual fashion accessory contributed to $1.7 billion in revenue in 2014 and $2 billion in 2015. From bankruptcy to Success For Converse, it was a long road from leader to bankruptcy to successful multi-brand, multi-channel player. The road became rocky in the 1970s when competitors like Puma, Adidas, Nike and Reebok came on the scene. The company lost its long-time status as official shoe of the National Basketball Associat...

Stripe

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What is Stripe? Stripe is an Irish-American financial services and software company headquartered in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. Stripe was founded by the Irish entrepreneur brothers John and Patrick Collison  in 2009. Stripe is estimated to be worth around $100 billion as of 2022. Some of Stripes competitors would be the likes of PayPal. Ironically, the founder of PayPal , Elon Musk was one of the first investors in stripe in 2011. What does Stripe do?  In simple terms when a customer purchases a product or service online, the money needs to be delivered to the seller. Stripe allows for the safe and effective processing of these funds and efficient delivery to the seller. The main attraction of stripe is that the software can be integrated into ecommerce businesses ...