5.3 - B2E Electric Commerce

This intranet diagram shows how Sunshine Land, the client, can interact with their employees by setting up a place on their website that will pertain to their employees. They can put their schedules on the internet and the regular schedule of the actual amusement park.The information, server, will go through the firewall and then the VPN, to make sure the information is secure, and it will reach the employee that is outside of the local network.

5.2 - B2B Electronic Commerce

In this extranet diagram, Sunshine Land, the client, will be sending information through the VPN to Costco, the server. The information that the client wants to send to the server over the internet will have to go through a firewall to make sure it doesn't contain any viruses. The extranet will allow Sunshine Land to do business with Costco through a secured network.

4.4 Entity Relationship Diagram

The three entities that we chose to show in the diagram are customer, invoice, and product. For the customer entity the attribute types that we chose to include for the different records are customer number, first and last name, the phone number, and their address (including street, zip code, city, state). For the invoice attribute types we chose to include invoice number, customer ID, product ID, date, subtotal, and total. For the product attribute types we chose to include product number, quantity, description, unit price, and total. When we gather enough information from our customers we will make database tables with these attribute types and fill in the records with attributes of those customers. The attributes will be of various data types and we will make relationships with them to connect the three entities.

4.2 Packet Switching Technology

The server allows computers A and B to use the client on the computer in order to use packet switching to send information (concurrent data transmission) to the computers labeled C and D. These computers are connected by a router and are assigned an IP address. For this information to be sent through the air to another computer the packets have to go through the TCP/IP so the different networks can communicate with eachother.The packets that are being sent to the computers are IP datagrams when they conform to the IP specification.

5.1 Critiquing Competitor's Website

The competitor website we chose to compare to was Kings Dominion's website.

Rule 1: The website should offer something unique
          - This website offers the same amount of services like any other amusement park website. There are tabs to click to receive online specials, see new attractions, and there is a tab on the website to purchase your tickets online!

Rule 2: The website should be aesthetically pleasing
          - When customers go on Kings Dominion's website they see the bright colors and huge letters to describe what their park contains. Also, there is a slide show of pictures describing the new attractions and specials.

Rule 3: The website must be easy to use and fast
          - I think the website is easy to use because it is very organized with all of the different tabs at the top of the screen. If I want to purchase my tickets online I know where to click.

Rule 4: The website must motivate people to visit
          - Personally, I don't think this website motivates people other than the online prices of the tickets because they are usually cheaper online. Other than the ticket prices, the customers see what new attractions are at the park when they are on the homepage of the website.

Rule 5: You must advertise your presence on the web
          - When you search for amusement parks on Google, Kings Dominion is an organic link. It doesn't appear on the side of the screen with the other adds where Busch Gardens is. I think they need to advertise their website more so people will notice it.

Rule 6: You should learn from your website
          - On Alexa.com, this website's traffic rate is 152,460 which is really good. But the time on the site was around last month for only a couple of minutes, which isn't really good compared to other websties.