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A digital identity is information about an individual that is posted online and is a representation of yourself. Your digital identity can be created by having a social media account and through having online activity (like shopping or browsing the web). It is extremely important to have a good digital identity to protect yourself and your personal information (SSN, email, address, birthdate etc.) It is important maintaining a good image for your professional career and for school purposes. Also, there are many bad actors online and identity theft can happen when you do not keep your information secure. You never know who is monitoring your profile and behavior on your social media accounts and it can damage your reputation in the long run if you are not mindful of the things you post. It is very important to keep privacy and security settings up to date to prevent identity theft and access to your digital identity.

Salesforce is a great platform to deliver cloud-based system products. It is a technology that enables organizations to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. It enables and enhances businesses by easily managing client data. It is a great resource to use for account management, creating pipelines for sales metrics, and communicating with your team all on one platform. Through learning more about Salesforce from our lab assignments I can see how beneficial the tool can be for businesses. I have a better understanding of how different industries would apply a system like Salesforce to their organization. As a business professional, I’ve used Dynamics 365 but can see how the Salesforce CRM tool is more seamless. It is a better automation process for keeping up to date with customers through email outreach and prospecting. It is also great for collaborating with management and peers to hit sales goals. I love the ability to learn how to build business insights and more accurate reporting/forecasting. It also increases your business data integrity by reducing errors in your business process and removing duplicate data.

Swim lanes are very beneficial and a great visual representation of the business. A swim lane diagram breaks down a business process into its actors and its logical and chronological order. It indicates the action handoff in a procedure. The benefit is it identifies who does what and in what order. It is a visual representation that can help identify problems and solve problems in a business process. It is great for clarifying complex processes and is necessary for improving business operations. I can see how MIS professionals can apply swim lane diagrams to all businesses and dig deep to see how a business procedure can be more efficient. It is a great breakdown of everything happening in a system from start to finish. I now have a better understanding of how things work on the backend of businesses from a consumer and business standpoint. When shopping online or in a physical retail location I now think about all of the components it takes to make the business run efficiently! From ordering a pizza to buying an item off Amazon it is a great organizational tool to take advantage of. 

 

 

A system analysis is “the process of studying a procedure or business to identify its goals and purposes and create systems and procedures that will efficiently achieve them.” It is a problem-solving technique that breaks down each step of a process. A great resource to determine how well the parts are working in a process and how each step interacts to accomplish their goal. A great way of doing system analysis is a system architecture that breaks down a business process into different components. An example of a system analysis is swim lanes, which is a way to document a procedure and a visual representation of a business process. This helps MIS professionals solve and identify new or existing problems. In class, we worked on a swim lane to break down the process of managing cake inventory at Cold Stone from start to finish. Through this process, we were able to identify each role of the actors involved and how to get to the final product of a decorated cake. I believe that swim lanes are necessary for all businesses with a product or service to figure out what strategy is the most efficient and where there are problems in the system.

 

JavaScript is a text-based programming language used both on the client-side and server-side that allows you to make web pages interactive. Where HTML and CSS are languages that give structure and style to web pages, JavaScript gives web pages interactive elements that engage a user. Javascripts provides functionality to the website. It determines actions to be performed based on user interactions. It determines what will happen when a user clicks on a button, hover over an element, scrolls up to a certain height, etc. For example: Because of Javascript, you are able to log in as a user on a website. Javascript is the driver of all interactions that we experience. Yes Js is event-driven it is responsible for executing code by events such as user actions (like clicks, key presses), sensor outputs, or messages from other programs or threads. So, when I click the check mark button “student post” in the categories box that event will be recognized and a function called.

Webpage’s without Java.

HTML is all about displaying content. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based approach to describing how content contained within an HTML file is structured. This markup tells a web browser how to display text, images, and other forms of multimedia on a webpage. HTML is basically a “skeleton” of your web page.

CSS is all about making the content look nice. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.

Together HTML and CSS can create a good-looking webpage. But without Javascript, there is no function or interaction with the website.

HTML:

1. <button type = “button”> Do something </button> 

 So what are loops?

A loop is a sequence of instructions that is repeated until a certain condition is reached. Defining loops in codes allows computers to perform particular tasks repeatedly. Computer programming languages require loops so that the codes execute the actions as many times as needed. Loops can be very useful in making a code more functional, easier to write, and leaving room for fewer mistakes to be made.

There are 3 types of loops used: for loop, while loop, and do-while

How is each used?

For loops are used when you know how many times the loop should run. The while loop is used to repeat a section of code an unknown number of times until a specific condition is met.

A do-while loop is a control flow statement that executes a block of code at least once, and then either repeatedly executes the block or stops executing it, depending on a given Boolean condition at the end of the block.

The three parts of a for loop are Initialization of the Loop, which Is used to initialize the for loop. Condition for the Loop is a condition or limitation for the for loop variable to limit its use. Updating the Loop is for updating the value of the loop to ensure its proper functioning of it.