Design Team Members: Dong Ming Li, Jianzhong Li
Supervisor: David Toman
Background
Shoppers sometimes go though great lengths of time searching for prices from their local malls or plazas. In order to do that, they have to search the stores in the mall’s website, and then find the store’s website through search engines. A centralized information system for local stores in a mall or plaza does not currently exist.
Project description
The project entitled, MP Central, is carried out to facilitate inexpensive marketing and information management for business based in malls/plazas, and more targeted advertisement distribution to customers. MP Central creates a huge online community that centralizes information about malls/plazas (i.e. floor map, events, contact information, address etc), as well as information about stores located inside malls/plazas.MP Central provides a rich data management system that allows owners of malls/plazas and stores to update information online, thus reducing the hassle for them creating and maintaining their own websites.
MP Central Information System
Design methodology
To meet the customer needs and the objectives, MP central information system is designed as a web based software application. The architecture of the MP central information system is designed to use the 3-tier layered structure: the database layer, the business layer and the presentation layer.