Abstract

This paper presents an innovative approach to business management and manufacturing process management by introducing a new collaborative portal framework that unifies the work teams and provides access to essential documentation, functionality and services within a SME. Mobile-Business (or m-Business) is a software suite for document management, project management, decision support systems, collaborative work and other business-related activities, that unifies them in a single web-interfaced access point. This takes the form of a web-portal that is called iPortal; it is a virtual location with a dashboard interface that integrates all m-Business modules and introduces the concept of project based activities to focus the collaboration around projects.