Blog Entry 7.1

While trying to run an amusement park there a lot of things that can go wrong when speaking in reference to threats.  There are so many things to worry about trying to run this particular type of buisness.  The most common threat that can occur in an amusement park is a natural disaster.  Rides can stop working, systems may shut down, etc.  The most relevant safeguard that can be used is just to simply make back up plans.  If our sytems shut down as far as registers are concerned, customers will just have to use a different method payment to supply the park with.  We as an amusement may also run across viruses in our system.  When dealing with viruses, our safeguards would simply be virus monitors to prevent viruses.  Another safeguard that may be useful towards the park would be physical access restrictions.  This particular safeguard would be useful because it would help any outside intruders from corrupting any of our systems or software.  For example physical access restrictions would be able to prevent Busch Gardens from getting into our park's software and revealing what it is we do as an amusement park.  Links to outside buisnesses can absolutely be a threat to the Ferrum Mountain Amusement Park.  You have to think, there could be individuals lurking around our park who could an employee to another park, and trying to get a look at how we run our buisness.  That being said, it could be easy to certain individuals who are trying to get an idea of how we do things and simply take what we do to another park.  To prevent such, Ferrum Mountain Amusement park would provide firewalls, a safeguard that would prevent any outside intrusions.  The last threat that I will talk about and which can also be harmful to our buisness are employees.  Yes, even individuals employed by us can also become a threat.  Even though these individuals are employed by us, there still is some
 information that they are not at will to know.  Information that only management are suppose to obtain.  So with that being said, our website would have a employee login tab simply for employees who need to see their payroll, work schedule, and upcoming events.  This safeguard is known as physical access control.  Just as our employees have their login tab, the management side of the buisness would have their own as well.  Doing this will help our buisness and promote that safeguard.  Just as our buisness keeps in mind of our threats, if we keep in mind of our safeguards our park will not have any worries with the threats.

Blog Entry 6.1

The Ferrum Mountain Amusement can absolutely utilize the pillars of the Web 2.0 portal.
-Utilizing the Web:  Using the internet, software to provide a continual updated service.
This particular pillar can be used with my company because our customers can stay tuned into what goes on at our park through our website and software.
-Harnessing Collective Intelligence:  Allowing users to contribute, thus improving the context.
Harnessing Collective Intelligence can help my business because of the fact that our customers will be giving the park feedback on what needs to be improved.  Therefore that will allow us to improve our context.
-Leveraging the Data:  Basing success on powerful databases containing tremendous amounts of useful information.
This pillar can keep the success of the amusement park going, simply by obtaining important information based on the needs of the customers or clients.
-Implementing Innovative Web Capabilities:  Learning from their user's behavior to improve products and services.
The last pillar can relate to my business simply by observing other amusement parks and notifying their mistakes that causes them to lose their customers.

Blog Entry 4.4

In the first box of this ERD helps our customers in our system.  The attributes in the first box needs to be provided just in case if we have two customers with the same last name, it will help us seperate one customer from the next.The overall attribute types not only help us as buisness find our customers, but they also keep record of what each customer is trying to purchase.  Each customer will have different attribute types, basesd on their record of purchase.  Because of the attributes, it helps the buisness with our database, in other words help us search our customer's information based on their attributes.  We also hold the customer's purchase or item number, so that each customer has a different datatypes and relationships.

Blog Entry 5.3

Mainly our amusement park would provide services by our intranet using the VPN to connect to the extranet to reach out to our client.  Which will process through the firewall and connect with our server.  Our server will finalize this process by providing our client with the information needed on our internet website.  The information will include how to purchase tickets online through our website.

Blog Entry 5.1

A competitor I am going to use is King's Dominion.  This competitor uses a B2C electronic website and it uses a E-transaction stage, they also use a Click-and-Mortar strategy. 
Rule 1:  Website should offer something unique:  3
I gave it a 3 because the website does provide information but no materialistic products.
Rule 2:  The website should be aesthetically pleasing: 5
I gave a 5 because the website uses great color schemes, and it captures your attention.
Rule 3:  The website must be easy to use:  5
The website gives you easy steps to finding what you need to know.
Rule 4:  Website must motivate you to visit:  5
Being that it's an amusement park the website gives great persuasion to those who are thinking about vistiting the park.
Rule 5:  You must advertise your presence on the web:  4
This website even gives the history of how long the park has been around and where it has been located.
Rule 6:  You should learn from your website:  4
By going through and taking a good look at this website, it's almost certain that you will learn what to do the next time you visist this site.

Blog Entry 5.2

A significant way that Ferrum Mountain Amusement Park would do buisness with another is by getting into buisness with contractors who can take the time to help build our roller coasters.  So looking at it from the company's point of view the amusement park would be the client, the company who is helping with the rides would provide us with a server to get in contact with them.  The internet would help us find out more about how they provide service to us.

Blog Entry 4.3

This particular diagram starts with TCP breaking down information into smaller parts, which are called data packets, which manages the transfer of those packets from computer to computer.  The IP shows how a data packet must be formed and to where a router has to foward each packet.  Each packet moved to their own destination.  The data packets conforms to the IP specification which is called an IP datagram.  Each datagram is assigned to their own IP address.

Blog Entry 4.2

This diagram is explaining the communications and collaboration of infrastructure.  The first thing the diagram illustrates is the servers sending out a message to reciever.  The message gets sent through the transmission media.  Following that, the reciever decodes the message, which can also be called the protocols.  During the process of decoding the message, digitizing occurs; which means turning some type of media into digital information.  The two medias that can be used in this process is, cable media and wireless media.  It's just like how home phones work with or without a cable wire.  The bandwidth illustrates the capacity of a certain communications, converted and measured into bits.

Blog Entry 4.1

The first thing that this photo illustrates is the inputs being processed through the processing technology.  The processing system goes through the decodeing process.  That process is usually done through bits and bytes.  The last process that finalizes this photos is the processing technology going through the outputs, which is stored and manipulated inside of the CPU.

Blog Entry 3.3

A cost benefit analysis basically I have a reoccuring and a non-occuring benefit cost, more than likely I can put a dollar value on my software benefits. A proxy value chart basically tells you what your sacrificing for your company and how its's benefiting the company.  Therefore if an employee brings a new idea or suggestion to his or her CIO, a proxy value chart would display how well the company is being benefitted befeore, during, and aft er the implementation of this new idea.      
             

Blog Entry 3.2

An argument that I wanna bring to the table wraps around the IFS of Transaction Processing.  I feel that it would be better if we had our customers pay for their tickets on line.  With doing we as an organization do not have to worry about overcrowded, backed-up ticket lines.(Faith)  If we continue to do things the way we are doing it now there's a possiblility that we will end up with impatient, or irritated customers that will end up going to another park.(Fear)  Also with our customers paying for their tickets online, our money will be more secure and we will have more customers with a smoother process.

Blog Entry 3.1

Blog Entry 2.2

This particular case study talks about the easier way to recieve and transport money, this system is called PayPal.  In so many words it just simply discusses the benefits of using digital payments.
1.) PayPal has been so successful because of the fact that they have discovered a new way of transferring payments.
2.)PayPal has increased Globalization because there are certain individuals in today's society that are using Apps such as Ebay, and other online purchaseing sites more frequently.

Blog Entry 1.2

In reference to my company I would want to collect data for what kinds of food stops customers would want to have throughout the park to eat at.  Secondly I would collect information from individuals in today's society, and see what type of prizes would people like to win, in reference to games.  Lastly I would study customer's feedback to see what the park needs to improve on.  With researching all of this information this would improve the park's sales.

Global Picture Sharing: Flickr

Flickr.com is a photo sharing company, in so many words it comes off as the facebook of photosharing.  The three enabler I want to use towards Flickr, is Informing, Offshoring, and Uploading.  I used offshoring simply because people on different continents can use flickr.  I used uploading because in order for this website to provide its services and be successful its employees have to collaborate.  Informing falls into play because its useful to use this enabler to find out what you need to know about this particular website.  These three enablers would be very useful toward this website.

Organizational Chart

Ferrum Moutain Theme Park

The name of my groups park is, "Ferrum Mountain Theme Park."  It consists of 240 acres, and we hold over 200 emoployees.  They way we make money is by selling apparell, concession, and other items or materials that customers would like to buy while visiting the park.