MAHAMGOSTAR.COM AS A CASE STUDY FOR ADOPTION OF LARAVEL FRAMEWORK AS THE BEST PROGRAMMING TOOLS FOR PHP BASED WEB DEVELOPMENT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (original) (raw)

2021, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, Special Issue

Laravel is currently known as the best programming tool for PHP-based web development that is very interactive and intuitive, for more information please visit Laravel.com and learn more about this Framework for PHP as a kind of programming language. Hence, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with low budget and human resources are one of the major groups that tend to use Laravel, which is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. For achieving the benefit of this technology as a new innovation, a multitude of factors influence the adoption of Laravel was conducted and funded by research department of Maham Gostar Company which could be reached at their verified company's official website, https://www.mahamgostar.com/, additionally, this company pioneer in Information Technology (IT) solutions for SMEs and has been sponsored all kinds of start-up projects. To create and evaluate our proposed model, we found many factors which affect on adoption of Laravel as a new innovation, these decisive factors must be systematically evaluated prior to making the decision to adopt innovation solutions. The purpose of this study is to identify these factors and determine the extent to which they influence the adoption of Laravel for SMEs' projects. Therefore, the project describes a research model that is based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory and the technology, organization and environment (TOE) framework. Based on our previous study, research model was developed to test seven variables, which are: relative advantage, compatibility, security concerns, cost cost savings, technology readiness, top manager support, competitive pressure and regulatory support. Data would have been collected by survey questionnaires from a sample of SMEs that all of these SMEs would have been accepted for our sampling method and research scope due to their infrastructures and Laravel adoption have been verified by our expertise's who involved more than one decade in this area. There would be many experts as our sampling method needs have been involved in information technology department from those SMEs would be selected to fill the questionnaires. The Smart PLS tool would been used for data analysis as the perfect tools for evaluating our proposed model. The results of the data analysis generally would have been supported the model, as well as all of the proposed hypotheses. In summary, the results of this research would be shown relative advantage, compatibility, security concerns, cost savings, technology readiness, top manager support, competitive pressure and regulatory support were found to have significant influence on adoption of Laravel for SMEs.