Essays on Back End

Introduction

Active directory (AD) is a windows domain network or Network Operating (NOS) directory mainly designed for windows server 2003 and windows 2000. Active directory therefore is directory service, which catalog information stored in an organized manner allowing access to information in the directory matching their values and names. For example, a user trying to log into a computer in a client computer in the server domain of the network, active network aid access by verifying the back end user by matching a user password and the directory domain thereby determines whether you are a system administrator or a regular ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to apply and synthesize the concept of management information system to the case of Primus Idea of McGraw Hills for text book publication while considering its future implementation. The management information system is considered as critical for the decision making within the business. The management information system must be protected and secured to complete the system development project successfully. For this purpose, each step of the development must be well managed and secured. The steps of development of information system include system analysis, system design, system implementation and system maintenance. The purpose of the paper ...

Abstract

In this paper, the author identifies at least three security-related threats and various recommendations how they can be addressed. So far, there were three man security threats that were identified. The first one was the outdated-ness of GFI’s front end system. The recommendation for this was for GFI to invest more in the creation of a team that would develop a dynamic, high quality, and more secure front end system, one that is suited to today’s speed and design standards. The second risk was the presumed use of a common cryptographic passphrase for all of its departments. ...

Introduction

Staples.com is an online store for office products and a source of other office solutions. It provides furniture, affordable copy and print services, office supplies, technology to offices and boardrooms through its online ecommerce site which was created and operationalized in 1986. Since its inception, the firm’s internet sales have reached $25 billion and rank behind Amazon in terms of online sales (Staples.com, 2016). Staples.com has its headquarters in Boston United States of America. Today it has presence in Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia meaning that the firm serves diverse customers of different demographic profiles. This is a ...

Database systems use different varieties of Structured Query Language (SQL) to administer, query and operate database systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. In order to provide dynamic responses to queries, web applications can interact directly with databases in the back end by dynamically building SQL statements. An SQL injection attack is an attack that is aimed at subverting the originally submitted SQL statements by submitting attacker-supplied SQL statements directly to the back end database . A successful SQL injection attack can have far reaching consequences on both organizations and clients depending on the web application and the data ...

Introduction and e-Business background

ZARA is a Spanish clothing manufacturer founded in 1975. It is a part of Inditex Group that makes it the world’s largest and successful clothing retailer. The company offers its customers with a wide variety of men, women and children clothing. ZARA has over 2,000 stores in different parts of the world and has a policy to invest a certain percentage of their revenue in opening new stores . The store has the most unusual strategy in the market as they do not advertise their products. One of the strategies of ZARA is that they take only one week to manufacture a product and ...

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a recent concept and a new development that enables on-demand and convenient network access to several configurable computing resources such as; servers, applications, networks, services, applications and storage. It provides data access, computation, software, and storage services that do not necessitate knowledge of the configuration and physical system of the system by the user. Cloud computing can also be defined as the set of networks, hardware, services, interfaces, and storage that are combined to convey services that involve computing. Notably, there are four fundamental characteristics in cloud computing; automatic deprovisioning and self-service provisioning, elasticity and the ability to ...

Introduction

New product development is a long and complete process of bringing up a new product or service into the market. Familiarizing oneself with the customer's taste and preferences, demand and nature of market greatly influence the penetration of the new product into the market. Durability, time, performance, quality determines the costumer's needs and interests towards the product in question. Many customers will often discredit new products, especially if it penetrated for the first time. Thus, the new product owners must find a way to convince these customers to trust their products. The new products that the company should advertise the product in ...

Business-to-Business Transactions

Business to business (B2B) refers to business transactions between two or more businesses unlike in business-to-consumer where the transactions are between businesses and consumers. The transactions can occur between a manufacturer and a supplier or a wholesaler or between a supplier and a retailer. B2B is also used in communication as many businesses have turned to social media to communicate with other businesses. The communication between employees of two businesses is referred to as B2B communication. The B2B term was invented so as to illustrate the electronic communication between enterprises. B2B was later used in the company's marketing process to illustrate the products and ...

Introduction

Front end, in computer science, is responsible for collecting inputs from various users and processing the data to conform to the requirements of the end user. The front user database is a platform between the user and the back end user. In computer software architecture and design there are many layers between the hardware and the end user. Each interface between the hardware and the end user can be spoken as having its own front user interface. The front user interface is, therefore, an abstraction, which simplifies the core components by providing a user-friendly interface. In the design of the websites, ...

Management of Kayfe

The Kayfe is a small restaurant dealing preparation and serving of various foods and drink. It consists of a front side and back side. The front of the house entails the dining room manager, the host and hostess, the beverage bar, wait staff, and bussers. All, these individuals are tasked with running operations. The back end of the café on the other hand comprises of the prep and line cooks, the dish washers and most essentially the chef who coordinates the back of house activities. The relationship between the two entities is strong since one cannot work without the other. In ...

- Choose a programming or software engineering technology, topic, or trend that is important to your chosen field or interesting to you professionally. Please give a description of the topic and specify why you feel it is important or interesting. Also please provide some examples of how you or your organization would use it. Cloud computing is definitely a new technology that is very useful in my organization. It is a technology or a paradigm where things are done through the combination of links, software and services that are available through the internet. The internet serves as a cloud of servers that is responsible ...

Do you need data storage for you company files that are accessible anywhere you go? Or do you need a storage for your documents that you can access even if you don’t bring with you your storage devices? Do you need to bookmark an online book where you can directly place your notes? Cloud computing may be the one you are looking for. Cloud computing is a new technology where you can do all of these and it has been a major hype in the internet today. Cloud computing is technically defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( ...

Answer Question

Answer Question Question 1

This means that the bought the device at: ($600- cost)/ $600 = 0.25 Cost = 450

The device was sold at $450 to McKenson.

Question 2 Retailer Using markup formula 33% markup ($299-cost) /cost=0.33

Working out

Cost = $300

Distributor 25% margin

Using the margin formula ($300-cost)/ 300 = 0.25 300-cost = 300*0.25 Cost= 300-75 Cost = $225

Manufacturer

Using margin formula ($225- Cost)/ $225 = 0.5 Cost = 225-112.50 Cost = $112.5

Question 3

The Usefulness of Distributors Distributors are very important in a supply chain. Finding the right distributor is always a plus to the supply chain system. The following are reason ...

A Reflection

Arguably, a product passes various stages before reaching the consumer. As a matter of fact, it passes many stages and personnel before becoming a final product that is ready for consumption. The primary message that the author is sending to the audience is about the back end of innovation. The author what the audience to comprehend on the process that a product of a service passes through after an idea has been found, designed as well as developed. In this case, the crucial message is to focus on the stages that a service of product passes, which include marketing, manufacturing, field support, logistics, as well ...