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Applications Architecture for a Medium Sized Manufacturing Firm

Authors:
Alicia Valdez
Sergio Castaneda
Laura Vazquez
Azucena Garcia

Keywords: Application architecture; SME; Enterprise architecture; e-commerce

Abstract:
Small and Medium Enterprises require new technologies and methods of work organization that allow them to improve their productive and competitive capacities. The Enterprise Architecture is a methodology that defines architectures for the use of the information in support of the business strategy, looking for strategic alignment between information technology and business processes. The Applications Architecture is a partial architecture of the enterprise architecture, which aims to define the best kinds of applications needed for data management and support the business processes, considering the strategic use of information and technology for the competitive advantage of the company. This research project designed and implemented an application architecture in a medium-sized manufacturing company using open source software, resulting in the identification of strategic areas of opportunity for this architecture, and the development of a basic web page to start e-commerce activities, achieving 7% increase in sales of the company, thus helping to raise productivity and competitiveness.

Pages: 472 to 478

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014