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Coffee Ordering Application Help - IntroductionWhy a Coffee Ordering Application?
A coffee ordering application is an extremely useful tool to demonstrate the capabilities of the TMS because of its simplicity, and the wide range of possible extensions and alternative applications.
The application is simple because of the nature of the transaction. There will be a clear set of ratings (products and price descriptions), and each order will be easily identified and categorized according to its attributes. The Billing component of the application is also very clear.
Before deciding on a Coffee Ordering Application the aim was to produce a ‘small ticket application.’ This gives a clue as to the huge number of possible alternative applications. From paying for a taxi, to a newspaper, to lunch, this application shows that the TMS is fully capable of supporting and handling any of these applications.
Also, the idea of a Coffee Ordering application is useful because it provides avenues to extend the system. For example the TMS could support ordering coffee from a mobile source such as a phone, PDA or laptop.
Alternatively, the Coffee Ordering system could be coupled with other products such as food, or magazines. As you can see, a Coffee Ordering Application proves that the TMS can be the engine behind a wide range of business applications.
Another business concept that the Coffee Ordering application supports is the idea of recording and mediating sales centrally from a distributed site. For example, through a mobile data connection, an ice cream vendor could mediate each transaction by “ordering” an ice cream from the system and confirming receipt of payment, and issue of product.
This would mean that sales could be constantly monitored, and there would be a huge increase in the transparency of operations, no matter where they are being carried out. This idea has huge implications, and by proving that TMS can support this type of application (we are not proving wireless communication) it is our aim to broaden the knowledge and use of TMS capabilities.
In the next tutorial we cover getting started.
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