Administration and integration of information for decision taking on enterprise resources in small and medium businesses, using automated management tool, providing diagnostics and administrative and operational agility

• Grant number: 02/06182-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE
• Start date: March 01, 2003
• End date: April 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration
• Principal Investigator: José Antônio Neves
• Grantee: José Antônio Neves
• Company: Uranet Projetos e Sistemas Ltda

Abstract

In the struggle for market share companies must, increasingly, search for greater agility in the processes of decision taking, in order to make their productive systems more efficient and provide products at competitive costs. Considering the huge amount of information involved, it is necessary to create mechanisms which permit diagnoses to be obtained, in real time, and even simulations of operational conditions so that decisions are more appropriate and potentially more lucrative for the business. Large companies invest millions of reals on establishing and contracting specialized systems and services which assist not merely in managing their businesses. The object of this project is to demonstrate the technical viability of the development of a specialist automatic solution in the administration of enterprise resources with the characteristics of being easy to use, of low cost, compatible with the budget of small and medium companies. Focused on the business segment and adapted to the developmental aims of the contracting company, the project will develop an administrative tool based on software specialized in decision taking, an infrastructure related to applications aimed at data capture in existing systems, and develop small programs for the management of strategic information. (AU)