Migração de sistemas com recurso à arquitectura Thin Client/Server : estudo de caso Emose

Abstract

Most transaction-based and geographically distributed organizations rely heavily on the use of information systems in their activities, It is believed that by this route, all the company's problems will be minimally solved and considerable gains in productivity will also come. It has been found, however, that after the implementation of information systems and even with its proper use, they fail to produce the expected results, and in many cases, the problems that arise are associated with administrative issues of computer resources, bandwidth for transactions, security and performance. Facing these facts is EMOSE, a public company and the oldest insurance company in Mozambique, currently with an architecture based on two computing environments, Unix and Windows, using fat clients (normal PCs) on all stations, which is not always necessary considering the day to day activities, The main contribution of this work is the demonstration that it is possible to achieve the expected results after the implementation of an information systems architecture suitable for the company's business. The main objective is to design an information systems architecture for a company that performs financial transactions in real time and on a national scale with higher security, low administration costs and high performance.

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