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. 

Blog Entry 3.3- Cost benefit analysis

The purpose of a cost benefit analysis is to contrast the total expected tangible costs versus the tangible benefits.

Measures changes in terms of their perceived value to the organization

Blog Entry 2.1- Globilization Enablers

Flickr.com offers for users to upload pictures from events so people can look at them. Flickr did not create online photo sharing though.

3 Enables

• The release of Netscape web browser- Without the start of the internet, Flickr could not have been created.
• Uploading- Flickr needed this enabler in order for them to allow people to put their photos onto the website.
• The steroids- This enabler helps Flickr because it made the world more digital and mobile which was something they needed to start the company.

Entry 2.2: Automobile Industry

1) Fueling has changed because of the prices throughout the world today
2) Taxes, prices of gas, etc. are different throughout the world which make some problems with trying to make a world car.

Blog entry 3.2- building a business case

1. Fact (intelligent system)- Because of the intelligent system, we are now able to increase the speed of organizing our medicine by doubling our previous rate.

2. Faith (Functional Area Information System)- Although we may not be able to support using this information system very well, we feel that by implementing the functional area information system we will be able to make it easier for customers to be able to pick up their medicine in a quick and timely fashion.

3. Fear (Transaction Processing System)- This information system is critical in containing our business. If we do not implement this transaction processing system soon our competition will run us out of business.

Blog Entry 3.1- Value Chain Analysis

Order medicine- The information system allows us to communicate with our suppliers for medicine and supplies we need in order to run our business.

Make a list of patient info need medicine- The information system allows us to know what exact medicine the patient needs.

Organize medicine by name and/or customer-

Bag up medicine for customers- The process is still being done by a human.(manually)

Customer pays- The information system allows us to use day to day in order to have our customers pay for their medicine and for our business to stay organized.

Blog Entry 1.1- Fictional company introduction

Name: PharmaChoice
Size/# of employees: 280,000
Location: Ferrum, VA

Blog entry 1.2

1. Customer's data:

• Information: 
• What they buy/ product
• size & color
• prices of what they bought
• Gender
• Method of payment
• Location/address
• Code of customer
• Knowledge:
• Product code
• Wisdom:
• Types of medicine they need 
• Times of pick-up
• Quantity of medicine the customer needs

2. Data Medicine:

• Information:
• Name 
• Item code
• quantity of medicine
• Side effects
• Knowledge:
•  55-475 => Ibuprofen  
• Wisdom:
• Who the medicine belongs to 
•