A trip to Towell...

On the 13^th of march (Wednesday) our ICT teacher took us to a field trip to Mazda which belongs to Towell, there we had some people telling us a few things about the company, and these are some:

First of all the company was found or established in 1972, they had the car pieces from Japan, whereas the dealers are in Oman.

They have a long organizational structure in which the information are carried out in a specific system. Talking about system, they have a backup system for important data. There are many departments in  this company such as finance, human resources and many others, all these departments use devices which involve ICT technology to make their work efficient and a lot faster and easier.

They are using devices that is specific for safty, for example biometric fingerprints, before we entre to the

departments, we saw a device ( Biometric fingerprints ) this device store templates of various characteristics of different people. A person is authenticated by matching his or her characteristics with those stored in the template database. Amazingly, these devices based upon biometrics technology are made capable enough to carry out the process of verification in 1-2 seconds, even if the database has thousands of templates stored in it.

They don’t only have teleworkers but also remote area workers who use VPN technology to log into their user accounts, each 90 days the password is changed so no interference or hacking occurs. You can book things online, but you cant pay though. Towell also uses expert systems which help people to recognize what problem they are facing by answering a few questions.

One last thing is that people there where so welcoming and friendly, I'd love to work with people with such personalities.

Listening to all those sayings I concluded that
towel is a developed and up-to-date company which use modern technology. I really liked the trip and hope someday I own a company like Towell in the future.

Online Shopping

Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods or services from a seller in real-time, without an intermediary

Advantages of online shopping

1. Finding a product online is much more easier than looking for it in the local store. you can save some valuable time.

2. Now it is very easy to shop online because of the availability of internet every where in the world.

3. You don't have to waste your time in going to store and standing in front of the crowd

4. You will enjoy the freedom of price flexibility. If you don't like the price of a product from an online shop, you can switch to other online to store to look for cheaper price.

5. Most of the store provides money back guarantee. Although it is very difficult to get back the money but most of the seller do provide money back grantee for a specific period of time.

6. You have infinite option to choose a product.

7. If you don't find any product within your country then you must need to shop online from a international store.

Disadvantages of online shopping

1. The main disadvantage is - you can not receive the product immediately. you have to wait until the product arrives.

2. You don't know about the actual quality of the product. Sometimes the description of the product might be different than the actual product. As a result you might end up with inferior quality product.

3. Shipping charge and shipping delays are one of the main disadvantage of shopping online. Some people just can't wait.

4. Sometime you may face Delivery risk. Delivery risk occurs when the seller fails to deliver the original product or delivers a damaged (inferior/duplicate) product.

5. As online shopping is becoming very common the number of online scam and fraud is also increasing. This is why a buyer should always buy from trusted websites.

6. You wouldn't like to buy any clothing products because you won't be able to know whether they will look good on you or not.

Steps:
1. Ensure that you know the identity, location and contact details of the online retailer.
2. Find out more about a company's reputation
3. Find out about billing, guarantees and delivery before you buy.
4. Read the site's privacy policy.
5. Only use secure websites if you are transferring funds via the site.
6. Take care when entering information
7. Use a credit card with online fraud protection
8. Record purchase details.
9. Be aware of email scams designed to part you from your credit card information

refrences :

http://tnvrstar.hubpages.com/hub/online-shoppingtips

http://www.wikihow.com/Shop-Online-Safely