Design and Development of an Integrated Research Information System

Information systems’ (IS) requirements are growing rapidly. The transaction management IS are realizing the simple data input/output process. The information management IS and the executive management IS are performing functions of the simple data analysis. The On-line analytical processing system (OLAP) uses multidimensional database (DB) form for extensive analysis and forecast. Recently another new IS class the research IS has started to develop. Technical requirements for these systems are very high. The research ISs functionality is very broad, including different data loading and transformation, simple and complex calculations, use of rules and multiple criteria in decision-making. The following complex multifunctional IS building is really complicated, and in the existing realizations unique solutions often are used, but these solutions are usually expensive, time-consuming and otherwise limited. The user interfaces with the systems are complex, too because of using many commands for data input/output, as well as language. In designing and developing research IS for fruit-tree biological resources investigation, there had been analysed researcher information processing behaviour, as well as investigated the latest IS and database system (DBS) technologies and concepts. These activities helped to work out dynamic, simple and effective IS common architecture, which provides high quality solutions for complex and complicated research tasks in a simple way.