BIM 101

ASSINGMENT

Table of Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................3 E-commerce .....................................................................................................................3 E-commerce for institutions .............................................................................................3

Advantages of driver management system from driver point of view..5

Disadvantages of driver management system from driver point of view .....................6

Advantages of driver management system from management point of view..7

Disadvantages of driver management system from management point of view ..........8

Reference ..........................................................................................................................10

Introduction
ABCD institution is one of the pioneer of higher education centers in Sri Lanka. It has closer to 300 students following higher education. ABCD offer education is Business stream, Computer, and Hospitality streams. It offers education certificates from university of Wales. My work at ABCD institution is not more than a month. ABCD Institution does not have any e-commerce portals. As one of the pioneers of the trade it is my recommendation to create a web portal with access for student to improve the standards of educating, To take the great step of create not just an institution but a better educating school. E-Commerce This is the shorter form for the term Electronic commerce. It is the use of electronic data transmission to implement or enhance any business process. Currently there are many uses of internet. There are hardly any without any access for internet. With this radical change of internet usage the companies have brought in new market strategies to retain and increase their customer base. E-commerce changes all business functional areas and their important tasks from advertising to paying bills. One of such steps is to create shopping opportunities in the World Wide Web. In addition to buying or selling online, firms engage in many other business activities that keeps the business floating. For example: Identification of demand, creating awareness of products, promoting the product, accepting orders, delivering products.

E-Commerce for Institutions As given above the general idea of e-commerce an institution does not do any direct selling of a product. Instead it can create a web portal that show what the institute is offering for its students. The web site can offer following information for their users; 1. Courses offered at the institute.
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2. Affiliated universities. 3. Student alumni 4. Course structure. 5. Fees and other information of course work. 6. Student corner ( past paper, module work, additional reading books, e-library, past paper, examination results, class schedule, homework submission, assignment submission, chatting and document sharing with other student etc) 7. Event calendar. 8. Achievements of the Institution. 9. Contact details. A presence e-commerce at an institution can be a fruitful exercise. The site can help students, lectures, administration staff, and potential customers. Given below is a picture of a web page of Singapore Informatics in Sri Lanka.

Advantages of driver management system from driver point of view.

1. Allows learning about the school and its facilities without any cost. The potential student who considers to join the college gets a chance to learn of its services and the life style of the college. The students who like to join the university is able to collect information of the programme to select, what it covers, course fees and time, lectures available. They are also able to purchase the required books, and learn from the presentation given. The students get a good idea of the course they are to enroll, and the requirements to enroll, the closing dates to enroll. 2. Students are able to access the lesson done at the class if unable to attend through elearning. This one of the greatest importance to a student as they are allowed to follow the lesson covered in the class in any part of the world. This actually is very convenient and also easy for students to follow the lessons. Not only can they access to learn the lessons covered at the class they can also refer the e-learning portal to memories the class work. 3. Ability to learn of the upcoming events at the university. The students are able to be informed prior to any events that are planned for the semester such as assignments, exams, sports events. This helps the students to be well informed of what is happening at the institution and prepare in advance for them. 4. Ability to refer to course work. The students are able to access their course work such as presentation, study guide, additional reading books, pas papers, examination results etc. 5. Ability to enroll for new students. The web portal can also be created as a channel for new students. They can enroll to the university without actually coming to the university. It will be a ver convenient method for new students to enroll without physically going to the university and going through the tedious paper work. 6. Creates purchasing opportunities for students. The students that are interested to join will be able to compare with other institutions. Allows a wide range of choice.
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Disadvantages of driver management system in the drivers point of view.

1. Need to be with easy access to internet. The students will have to stay always connected with the changes in the web portal. Ever student has to be connected with the internet in order to access the information required. This could be a tedious task for students without internet access. 2. Securing the personal user profile. The students must constantly change the password to keep their profile secure. 3. Friendliness among students reduced and isolation created. As the students are given with all access for information and required work for the course the student might not move along with the rest of the students, they will be self sufficient and the team spirit and loyalty for the institution will be reduced. 4. Overload of information. The students may get confused with the over load of information obtained. This will creat a confusion for the potential student. There are times when the information can be wrongly interpreted by the user of the web site.

Advantages of driver management systems from the management point of view

1. Cost effective in the long term. Creation of a web portal helps the company to reduce cost in the long term. Though the investment cost for the company is high the cost can be reduced in the long term by means of cost effective marketing, postage cost etc. When considered in the long term the institute will be able to save millions of cash. 2. Increase sale. The sales of the institution can be increased when the customers are well informed of what the institute is offering. If the institute offer online enrolling for classes the students will be persuade to join the institute. By offering e-learning many georgraphical areas can be covered hence student in any part of the country will be able to join the institution. 3. Understanding needs and want of student. The institute will be able will able to be in touch with the students easily thereby providing an opportunity to learn the needs of the students and cater accordingly. This creates a friendly environment for the students to learn. By tracking the activity of students the administration will be able to have a better understanding of the taste and needs of the students. This will help the institute cater those needs well and creating a good student base. 4. Increase efficiency. The institute will be able to keep the students constantly informed of changes and also reply and give quick responses to queries. By providing efficient services the potential students will be interested to join the institution. 5. Increases the Institution reach. The institution will be able to reach a wide area of target market. This could easily increase sales. The institute will be able to attract many at once with a lesser cost when compared with time. The organization will be able to increase the sales and achieve the business goals.

Disadvantages of driver management systems from the management point of view

1. High implementation cost. The cost to implement a web based services involve high cost starting from design, replacing new networking and hardware applications. The initial cost to implement will be very high and the institution will have some difficult to come up with funds to create a web page. 2. Need to offer training to the administration staff. The cost when implementing will go further high with the need and time spend to train the existing staff as to how the web portal must be used for effective business use. 3. New recruitment needs. New staff has to be recruited to manage the web portal to get maximum use of it. The need of new recruits with matching credentials will be both a difficult and expensive task for the management. Many firms have had trouble recruiting staff and retraining employees with the technological, design, and business process skills needed to create an effective electronic commerce presence. 4. Cultural impediments. Some students are still somewhat fearful of sending personal documents and credit card cumbers required for enrolling for courses over the internet. Other are simply resistant to change and are not comfortable with viewing information without personal contact. 5. Legal Impediments. Legal problem involved in creation of web site and government regulation with transactions made on the web site. Some of the rules and regulations involving ecommerce is still not updated hence it might creat problems to existing web site to change according to the new introduced law. This will create a constant need of change according to the changes of government regulations. 6. Government taxes. An e-commerce portal are sometimes taxed by the government according to the geographical area and the services provided.

7. Security problems. The e-commerce portals can face many security problems and hence there is a need to keep updating and increasing the safety of the web site. Some information given on the web can be edited by the hackers and also information can be stolen by other parties. It is always necessary to keep securing the site from hackers. 8. Ability of creating and spreading a bad reputation. E-commerce can also allows to spread bad repustion very quickly. for example: Facebook page where a dissatisfied customer can make a post on a bad service provided and many will be able to review and comment.

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