BUSINESS DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - Designing and Programming an Application for Use of SME Partners

David Plandor, Lenka Landryova

2011

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe a newly designed diagnostic software application for a small and medium enterprise (SME). This application was driven by a need of small and medium sized companies and by a focus on a simple, comfortable and user-friendly interface. The diagnostic process provided by the application consists of 4 main parts – a questionnaire, a processing system, a report and an action plan. The entirely new generic diagnostic system developed according to the functional specifications given by partnering companies in our project includes a system of questionnaires with processing logic conditions, and was tested with end users and upgraded based on end users’ feedback. A live version and implementation into a web site on the server is ongoing.

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in Harvard Style

Plandor D. and Landryova L. (2011). BUSINESS DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - Designing and Programming an Application for Use of SME Partners . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-76-8, pages 77-82. DOI: 10.5220/0003650600770082


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft11,
author={David Plandor and Lenka Landryova},
title={BUSINESS DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - Designing and Programming an Application for Use of SME Partners},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2011},
pages={77-82},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003650600770082},
isbn={978-989-8425-76-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - BUSINESS DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - Designing and Programming an Application for Use of SME Partners
SN - 978-989-8425-76-8
AU - Plandor D.
AU - Landryova L.
PY - 2011
SP - 77
EP - 82
DO - 10.5220/0003650600770082