Using Resource Based Theory Construct Enterprise Information Portal

• Main Authors: Sheng-Huan Hsu, 徐晟桓
• Other Authors: Chung-Min Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9f2gft

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 商業自動化與管理研究所 === 96 === New information technologies are being developed everyday in the world. Enterprises are trying to keep their competition advantages by holding right information and make quick response. According to the resource based theory, it is developed to explain how enterprises relate to their goal by defining enterprises as a collection or bundle of resources. Small and medium enterprises play an important role in Taiwan industry. The characteristic of the small and medium enterprise are flexible and quick response. In this research, we using resource based theory to build one enterprise information portal (EIP) architecture and set up one new way to develop the extensible markup language (XML) format so that make data exchange between different systems easier. After building an enterprise information portal, we compared different portal architecture, we hope this architecture can provide small and medium another perspective for choosing the style of the architecture. In this research, we use representation state transfer (REST) to build an enterprise information portal. REST strictly refers to a collection of network architecture principles which outline how resources are defined and addressed. It is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems. We first introduced the background of the EIP project, and then we do system requirement and analysis. We build a prototype of the enterprise information portal and combined it with the service-oriented architecture. After finish the design of the architecture, we started to construct the portals. We use Ruby on Rains 2.0 to help us use Ruby to code, because Ruby is designed for REST use. After the portal completed, we provided the guideline of the portals and do some test to make sure every function is worked fine. After we developed the portal, we discussed some management issue for enterprise strategy. From cost, business process and strategy layer, we concludes that the REST style portal is quickly and ease to construct, and we also realize the difference between the REST style architecture and other software application like SOAP from different using, url link and XML output. These compares make REST became a quick and ease for design. These benefits are very suit to the small and medium enterprise. And in the case of Children Innovative Knowledge for Children Industries project, we also proof that it can be developed.