Abstract:
Vastly growing Web-technology has matured enough to become an
attractive platform for business applications and organizational
information systems. Large and small organizations are increasing their
investment in Web-based Information Systems (IS) resources, such as
Electronic Commerce, Intranets and Extranets. The Web technology is
often presented as a 'revolution' in information system technologies in
the business press which could propel change from static, hierarchical
structures to more dynamic, flexible and 'knowledge-based'
organizational forms. To the companies, more and more legacy
information and database systems are being migrated to Web-based
environments. This research aims at analyzing and advising enterprises
to be Web-based enterprise with challenges and opportunities. During
the research, researcher investigated a company that were using the
Web-based (applications made available via the World Wide Web)
information service. Various research methods were adopted by the
author. Data were collected through lecture review and in-depth
interviews. Undoubtedly, there are some troubles existed in migrating,
such as technologies for restructure information system structure,
resource distribution, benefit analysis, planning and management,
operation and maintenance etc. But still obviously, as the research
shows that there are many benefits can be got follows the
implementation of Web-based solution.
