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.