Safe Health Pharma Knowledge Bank Application - The Solution


Safe Health Pharma Knowledge Bank Application—The Solution

The solution is to create a Web-based application that can be used by all employees at all the research centers. After this application is implemented, the employees working on different teams will be able to search desired information in a systematic manner. They will also be able to submit their articles to the Knowledge Bank. This, in turn, will help reduce time and resource wastage. Here are the various benefits of the Knowledge Bank application:

  • Safe Health Pharma will be able to develop its own Knowledge Bank even if certain employees leave the organization.

  • Scientists will be able to search for desired information without contacting other teams. This will help reduce time wastage.

  • The latest information will be made available online.

  • The search feature will allow employees to search for specific articles in the Knowledge Bank.

  • Information exchange between different research centers will speed up. This will directly affect the financial performance of the company.

  • All new employees joining different research centers will receive training on the basis of the Knowledge Bank articles.

Implementing the proposed solution requires a front-end, Web-based application that provides a simple and interactive interface. Because this application will deal with confidential research information, only authorized employees should be allowed to access the data. The system administrator at the headquarters will handle security issues. To prevent unauthorized employees from accessing the data, the application should prompt for a username and a password through a Login page. After successful login, the application should display a User Module Main page, which will enable users to upload files, delete files from a directory, and search for articles. The application will have a separate Admin Module interface to allow the administrator to create new logins, verify new articles, and view log files.

After completing a preliminary analysis of the solution, the company's management hires a team of software professionals. The team, consisting of a project manager and two application developers, decides to use ColdFusion MX to develop the application because it's fast, reliable, and allows structured Web application development. ColdFusion MX uses ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) for developing Web pages and file-handling functions. For more information on CFML, refer to Chapter 2, "Overview of CFML." ColdFusion MX applications can interact with files through a set of available tags. The development team decides to use SQL Server as the back end for the application.

The following section describes a typical project life cycle for developing a Web application.




Macromedia ColdFusion MX. Professional Projects
ColdFusion MX Professional Projects
ISBN: 1592000126
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 200

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