Blog Entry 6.1

• Utilizing the web as a platform- Software can be used as a.
• Harnessing collective intelligence- Allows users to contribute, thus improving the content. We can have our customers tell us how they want us improve for them.
• Leveraging data-
• Implementing innovative web capabilities- use the web more in our business for our customers.

Blog Entry 7.1

• Accidents and natural disasters- Our company can be threatened by this if a natural disaster comes. We can protect our company from this by keeping an extra file available.
• Employees and consultants- This could hurt our company if an employee loses their information or leaks out info. to other companies. We can protect from this by having codes and firewalls for the employees.
• Links to outside business contacts- This could hurt our company if we give our information to our business partners like the doctors office and they lose the information or get them hacked. 
• Outsiders- This could hurt our company if an hacker or outsider gets a hold of our personal information.
• Viruses- This hurts our business by stopping or blocking the system and/or possibly shutting down the system.

Entry 4.4

The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) shown above shows how the pharmacy is broken up. Each entity has its own set of attributes. Attributes are individual pieces of information about an entity. A collection of attributes in an ERD is known as records. All of these are located on the database table.This is where the collection of related data is stored in order to facilitate searches.

Blog Entry 5.3

             We can use the intranet method in our business to communicate with our employees through a private server. The employees are the only ones who can get to the sites on the Internet and get past the firewall. We use VPN to secure our information for only our business. Then we only let out certain information as extranet to other businesses.                                                                                         

Blog Entry 5.2

Using a extranet method between businesses will enable us to communicate with our supplier. This method helps because after the customer has ordered their medicine, we can then go to our supplier to see if they have the medicine.

Blog Entry 5.1

CVSRule 1: Rate- 4

• The color of the website was good, the slide show was also a good attachment.

Rule 2: Rate- 4

• Cvs.com website is not crowded and has enough space so that the user is able to find what they are looking for without it being a huge problem.

Rule 3: Rate-5

• The website moves at a very good rate. The traffic rate for the cvs.com website in the u.s. is 780. The average load time for this site is 1.34 seconds

Rule 4: Rate- 4

• The website would motivate the people to visit, stay and return because it is constantly changing. The slide show has a different item being advertised daily.

Rule 5: Rate- 5

• The cvs website is advertised on over 2,000 different sites. Also you can find links for this site on google and yahoo.

Rule 6: Rate-4

• Most of the pages on this website are appealing to the user. None of the pages would make a customer want to leave and never come back.

Blog Entry 4.1- IFS H/W Infrastructure

The image above is showing how exactly a computer functions. The computer reads objects as 1 or 0 which means on or off. For every letter, there is a code so if you write a word like "hello" the computer goes through a code for each letter. The 8-bit code for the letters is called the ASCII. After the codes inputs onto the computer, the computer then saves or stores the codes inside the H/W. Then you see the word hello through the monitor after the computer outputs the codes.