Database Management System Information Technology : Assignment
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<University>PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR A STUDENT DATABASEMANAGEMENT SYSTEMby<Your Name><Your Student Number><Module Name><Submission Deadline>Word Count:17th January 2017<Lecturer’s Name and Course Number> <Your Name> <Your Student Number> 20171 of 13
Table of ContentsProject Proposal For a Student Database Management System.....................................3Rationale and Context....................................................................................................3Aims...............................................................................................................................5Research Questions........................................................................................................5Proposed Research Methods..........................................................................................5Ethical and Access Issues...............................................................................................6Potential Value of Research...........................................................................................7Research Plan.................................................................................................................8Initial Literature Review.................................................................................................9References....................................................................................................................11 <Your Name> <Your Student Number> 20172 of 13
Project Proposal For a Student Database Management SystemInformation technology (IT) has revolutionised the way of working for businesses, governments, organisations and individuals. Every entity, whether it is a for-profit business, a government, a not-for-profit organisation or an individual, wants to maximise the returns on resources. These resources include raw materials, skills, processes, information, contracts, suppliers, customer, and time. The now ubiquitous IT has enabled a far more efficient utilisation of the resources relevant to achieve the goals of an entity than could have ever been achievable with just pen and paper. IT not only not only pervades all the processes but also exerts an accelerating effect on them (Frenzel and Frenzel, 2003).The education industry is also building upon IT, and one of the domains is student management. Running an educational institution is no different from running any business. There are customers (students), staff, processes (administration, management of students, courses, examinations, attendance, departments, classes and other processes), ways to track performance (reports). This paper is a proposal forsoftware for managing an educational institution's students and related data.Rationale and ContextThis proposal is for a student database management system, which is a specific type of Management Information System (MIS). An MIS is a collection of software, hardware, business processes and trained staff whose goal is to provide the entity withtools to manage the day-to-day operations, evaluation, as well providing insights for strategic direction (Beal, n.d.). The project aims to produce software which will help organisations manage administration, students, courses, examinations, attendance, departments, and classes. This project will be for-profit and created by the developer. The project is intended to be used by education institutions of all sizes and complexity. The target consumers range from a private tuition centre to a multi-location University. In keeping with the emerging trends of decentralisation of data and subscribing to software rather than purchasing (Dubey and Wagle, 2007) (on <Your Name> <Your Student Number> 20173 of 13
disks like DVDs or CDs), the project will be a cloud-based service and offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS). Decentralisation in computing means that there is no concentration i.e. if data is decentralised, then always latest updated data can be accessed from multiple devices at multiple locations (Baschab and Piot, 2003). Cloud computing is a practical implementation of decentralisation (Mell and Grance, 2011). An illustration of this concept and the advantages for the user is the email service by Google, Gmail. A user story can go like this - a user may check an email on his Internet-enabled mobile during the morning commute to work, prepare a draft and then save in for sending later. Then, when he reaches his office, from his desktop computer, he logs into his email finds the draft, attaches a presentation file and sends the email. The data is always latest and available on any number and type of devices the user wants. Next, SaaS is one the ways of selling software and contrasts with shrink-wrap software. SaaS gives access to customers without handing them over the executable files or the source code. The bypassing of providing a copy of the software reduces the chances of theft of the intellectual property rights of the developers/company. Also, the software is now subscription-based, and the developers/company have the option to keep charging (for the premium features). The benefit to the user is that he does not need to download or keep on manually updating his copy of the software (ClaimVantage, n.d.). To meet these requirements in today's world invariably means using the public Intenetand World Wide Web (WWW) to host a website (or web application) on a cloud platform, and allow for subscription-based different plans of service for different pricing. To these ends, the project will use PHP for the server-side programming language; MySQL for the database; HTML (HyperText Transfer Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript for Web standards development of client-side. These components will be hostedon a cloud service provider (Amazon Web Services). Several tiers (free and paid) will be offered under the freemium model of business (Feinleib, 2012). <Your Name> <Your Student Number> 20174 of 13
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