Ulm University | 89069 Ulm | Germany Faculty of Engineering and Com- puter Science Institute of Databases and Information Systems Technical Conception and Implementa- tion of an IT-System supporting the flex- ible Distribution of Documents within a large scale Sales Organization Master Thesis at Ulm University Submitted by: Jonas Schaude
[email protected] Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert Dr. Vera Künzle Supervisor: M. Sc. Johannes Schobel 2015 Version October 27, 2015 c 2015 Jonas Schaude This work is licensed under the Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Satz: PDF-LATEX 2ε Abstract This thesis aims to discuss and present an IT system to distribute documents within a large scale sales organization. Therefore, different sales applications on the market are analyzed and described. Based on this analysis, requirements for the IT system are defined. The requirements are divided into client-side and server-side requirements. The server application is realized using an existing ECM system to support the content throughout the enterprise content life cycle. Therefore, an evaluation of existing ECM systems is performed with a criteria catalog based on the requirements. Afterwards, the conception and architecture of the IT system are described, followed by further insights into the technical implementation of the mobile application. Finally, the features of the overall IT system are discussed and an outlook on how to extend the IT system is presented.