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The main topic of this thesis, is to introduce you in to Web Technologies, that can provide innovative business solutions. Introducing to Data Management Systems for developing dynamic websites, and reporting the most relevant platforms for this case. Next, we will analyze the importance of the decision of a business to create an online store, and we will represent the most popular CMS for developing an online store. We will represent how the use of open source software affects, positively, the development of complex applications and we will use this kind of software to achieve the integration. Furthermore, we will make a detailed introduction to ERP systems, as well as the benefits that provide to the business. We will see all the points that a business should be aware, before selecting the ERP system. Finally, we are going to develop an integration between these two applications (ERP & WooCommerce Store), in purpose to reduce the working time in order to update two different systems with the same data, and to create automatic synchronization of the warehouse of a store and the e-shop. We will analyze the possible ways of data exchange that we have met, and list all the advantages and disadvantages that we came up.