Riordan Manufacturing HRIS: Section 2

The next Stage of Riordan Manufacturing’s project to upgrade their HRIS is to develop the application architecture and process design. The application architecture is built upon the business requirements that are gathered from the stakeholders, this pertains to building a relationship between application packages, databases, and middleware systems, in regards of coverage and abilities. Mapping out the architecture will show problems and gaps in the coverage, from these discoveries it will give the design team the ability to determine a migration plan. Overall the application architecture demonstrates the how multiple applications will work together. The overall strategy of developing application architecture has to involve planning on the company’s future growth, enabling the application to have the flexibility to add additional infrastructure from acquisitions or growth from future upgrades or branches. As far as process design goes to explain it plainly it is the activity of designing workflows, equipment needs, and implementation requirements for a specific process, this process being the new HRIS for Riordan Manufacturing, this step usually requires tools like flowcharts, process simulation software, and scale models. In short the process design will help determine the way things go together and what comes first in situations given.
From here we can look at the different Application architecture patterns that can be used for Riordan Manufacturing’s HRIS, to determine a pattern we have to determine what would be best for the project utilizing the information we have gathered in the requirements gathering process. To go a bit further into application design we have to address the four basic functions that software can be divided into, data storage, data access logic, application logic, and presentation logic. Data storage is the easiest to define since it is what it does, store data, this function basically stores data that can be retrieved as needed with no