Migrating to the Web: a Web financial information system server

Abstract As Intranets are getting more and more popular in business use, the needs for Web information systems are becoming obvious. This paper reports our efforts involved in the implementation of a Web DSS server, which is migrated from a stand-alone DSS server. We describe the various aspects of the system in detail, and propose a generalized Web information system architecture, which works as a reference architecture for a wide class of information systems over the Web, including DSS. The discussion also covers current technologies being used in this project including HTML, CGI, Java, and Web databases, and addresses open problems that require further research and development efforts.