Midtern Question # 1

Research 1 company that makes use of E commerce. Describe the nature of this company in 1-2 paragaraphs. identify then, how does this company use E- Commerce to achieve strategic advantages. Describe the benefits derived from this strategy.

---- ORACLE CORPORATION----
Oracle Corporation is the second largest software company in the world. Our products include the Oracle database and development tools; and business applications for sales and service, manufacturing and supply chain, and finance and human resources.
Oracle8 delivers the lowest total cost of ownership by making it easy to run database applications on a corporate Internet. A corporate Internet stores data and applications on professionally managed servers, not desktop PCs. This cuts labor and networking costs, while improving system performance and reliability.
Oracle applications do more than automate back office business processes. Our sales and service applications capture critical customer information from the front office. This enables our business intelligence system to monitor everything going on in a business, so decisions can be based on up-to-date information and impact on shareholder value.
Oracle employs 37,000 database and business application specialists, dedicated to providing our customers with consulting, education and support services in 140 countries around the world.

Application development organizations have a wide variety of programming languages and technologies to choose from. Oracle Database 11g delivers a highly productive and powerful set of application development tools supporting the most popular development technologies including Java, PHP and .NET. Application Express is a unique web application development tool that is ideal for quickly building departmental and SMB applications. PL/SQL and Java in the database provide architectural options to create database server-side code that can increase the performance, security, maintainability and scalability of your applications. SQL Developer provides a graphical work environment for the Oracle Database that increases database developer productivity. Oracle Migration Workbench eases migrations from other databases to Oracle. Collectively these tools simplify your development tasks and enable your organization to reduce application development time to market.

Blog # 6

Research one multinational corporation like proctor and gamble, unilever, IBM, Microsoft, honda and etc. Identify and describe how there subsidiaries are managed and how technology has assisted them in their corporate and or local operations,further, identify one philippine company that has gone worldwide (e.g Jollibee and Bench) and describe their strategies, evaluate the strategies of foreign companies with that of philippine corporation.

Dole Philippines Inc. Also known as Dolefil, was established on June 26,1963. It is a fully owned subsidiary of US multinational Dole Food Company, a producer of high quality fruits, nuts, vegetables, canned pineapple, and pineapple based beverages. Dolefil accounts for more than half of Dole Food Company's total pineapple output. It is located in Polomolok, South Cotabato, a progressive farming community. It is an ideal pineapple production center with a favorable climate. At 1,400 feet above sea level, it has a fairly even rainfall year round and is located along the typhoon free area of Mindanao. Dolefil operates on a 14,000-hectare area, the world's biggest integrated pineapple plantation, cannery, and packaging complex. It has its own can manufacturing plant, corrugated box manufacturing plant, and an international shipping and wharf facility. At the heart of the Dolefil complex are expansive housing sites for employees, a 100-bed hospital, an international school, a clubhouse, and recreation facilities that includes a tennis courts, a fairlyl-equipped gymnasium, soccer and football fields, a swimming pool, and a picturesque nine-hole golf course. Dolefil has a total employee count of 4,214 as of April 1997 comprised of 328 management,135 salaried, and 3,751 hourly employees. The company hires as many as 2,000 temporary employees from Cooperatives during peak harvest, canning and packing operation. Dolefil is committed to provide employees with a decent income and opportunities to grow professionally with a year round training and development program. Approximately 95% of the total production are exported worldwide to customers in Dole or distributors' brand labels. In 1996 Dolefil shipped 21,000,000 cases of produce to its markets in Asia, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia, United States, and Europe. Dolefil continuously develops its product line to respond to growing customer needs and global competition. Traditional pineapple product lines are modified utilizing different pack styles, packing medium, number of slices or segment, and packaging. Varied formulations and fruit flavors are being introduced in its concentrate blend lines, fruit juices and drinks. Dolefil ventures on finding new products to introduce to the market. One is the tropical fruit cocktail packed in passion fruit juice medium, which provides an exotic blend to the product. Initially sold in local markets, it is now marketed to countries in Asia and the US. Recent products are a variety of fruits packed in plastic cups. Co-packers of Dolefil are also producing fruit-based packaged products.

blog post#5

As a future manager, what is your computer ethics program. jusify each activity needed.

-----As a future manager, my computer ethics program is to implement a machine that
can deposit and withdraw cash in the computer so that it could be easy for all of as
in withdrawing and depositing of cash without going to the bank. This could be very
helpful to those who are employees that are far from the bank.and there will be a very
easy transaction when using this machine.

Blog post # 4

If you are just a student of RMMC and not currently working, cite a manual procedure here in our school which you prefer to computerize. Describe how this system should function and how can this help the employees and the student of RMMC.

-----As a student, I would suggest of using a swipe machine with the use of the Id
in entering the school campus, for security purposes and to be able to identify
easily if He or She is a student or employee of the school. Using this kind of machine
is a plus factor to the school and a sign of progress.