Finals: Blog #3 - THE VIRTUAL OFFICE (VO)

Virtual office (VO) is a term for shared office services, which normally includes business address, mail & courier services, phone services, fax services, answering services, web-hosting services, and meeting & conference facilities.
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VO provides MIS the services with in-house or outsourced services such as corporate secretarial services, accounting services, or legal services that enables a network to run a business efficiently by using nothing other than online communication technologies.
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3. Illustrate (give examples) how VO can improve company's competitive advantage and organizational performance.

Finals: Blog #2 - THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS)

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information system that supports business and organizational decision-making activities. A properly-designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions.

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DSS supports the decision making activities of MIS in a business applied for documentation which an inventory of all current information assets, comparative sales figures, projected revenue figures, etc.

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3. Illustrate (give examples) how DSS can improve company's competitive advantage and organizational performance.

Finals: Blog #1 - MAERSK Filipinas, Inc.

Maersk Line offers a range of e-commerce services including:

MAERSKLINE.COM. If you want 24/7 access to all aspects of the business process with Maersk Line, maerskline.com is the solution. The e-commerce portal offers a complete overview of your business with Maersk Line and offers online planning, booking, documentation and tracking services.

INTTRA. If you use multiple ocean carriers, and want a standardised work process, INTTRA may be your preferred choice, allowing you to do business either via the INTTRA-LINK EDI solution or via the inttra.com shipping portal.

EDI. Maersk Line also offers EDI (Eletronic Data Interchange) connectivity for direct exchange of data between your systems and ours.

EDI enables business partners to work smarter and to increase productivity by automating the interchange of information between their back office systems. This reduces paperwork and the need to manually rekey data, thereby preventing delays and increasing data quality.
We see an increasing demand for business process simplification and automation by using EDI. Substantial enhancements have been implemented within our technical infrastructure and support organisation in order to meet your EDI requirements.

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CUSTOMERS

Our customer service, both for export and import, do telephone sales, quotations and bookings. Our Documentation departments handles all export documentation and responsible for releasing all the bills of lading as soon as vessel departs from our port, giving you, our customers, a high level of comfort.

• Increased access. Maersk Line (Phils) offers the widest market coverage by an international shipping line in the Philippines with six service points covering all major ports in the Philippines: Manila, Subic, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Cagayan. Our main office is in Manila.
• Greater flexibility in transport options with our 2 sailings per week. Our vessels connect to global Maersk Line network via owned terminal in Kaoshiung, Taiwan and from there connect to Maersk Line global network of more than 250 vessels which has a combined capacity of 600,000 TEUs.
• Reduced production lead-times as a result of Maersk Line's competitive transit times.
• 325+ offices in more than 100 countries worldwide linked thru a global on-line IT network working to provide the latest and fastest response time to your inquiries.
• 10,000 well-trained staff on all our offices ensures you customers get the best cargo transportation solution for all your shipping needs.

MIdterm: Blog #3 - Dell Company

Dell's simplified systems management approach and unique integration with industry standard management tools such as Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 provides the capability to update server software, operating systems, and applications such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005 from a single console.

Dell services streamline the way customers can integrate these systems into their data centers. Dell Services can help with planning, migration, installation and training for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that helps customers take advantage of the technologies' capabilities and the multiple applications provided.

BENEFITS:

• to meet customers' needs
• to help ensure uptime
• provide appropriate levels of support once the technology is up and running.
• can create full configuration recommendations of the optimal combination of Dell offerings based on specific customer database requirements.
  

Midterm: Blog #2 - The Philippine Airlines, Inc. Website

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