Alternative Solutions

Alternative Solutions

There are several solutions to my project. One of them is just to keep current system. Current system has been used for more than a decade, and has worked. It provides enough detailed information about student’s attendance. Main advantage of the current system is that it is cheap in the short term. There is no need to invest more money in to the system therefore it can be cost saving. However, it is neither flexible nor efficient. It cannot produce ad-hoc reports right away, it has to be done manually if wanted to which would consume a lot of time. In addition it cannot provide as much detailed report as alternative solutions.

Another solution is having a spread sheet, where teachers would type in number of minutes late into a class ready template. Spread sheet have good capabilities in calculations, however do not have all features require. Spread sheet software is most appropriate for financial or statistical analysis due to it’s formulas and functions built in. However, spread sheet software are not suitable for storing vast amount of data and day-to-day data. It does not have good search facilities nor ability to create ad-hoc reports.

On other hand, there is database software. Database software allows users hold vast amounts of data such as student’s address, and ability y to search and sort the data as the user desires. It has comprehensive searching ability which reduce amount of time lost searching for a certain record, in reality it is reduce to matter of seconds. Database software have ability to hand complex amount of data in various forms which are interconnect to each other. In other words, each data about student would be in separate document and master file would compile them all into one...

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...uire cameras to be looked after or students may just loose their cards. Also teachers may lose their PDAs, which are not cheap. In such as system equipment does not need much care nor can be easily lost.

Even though other systems maybe automated it does not mean that they are easy to use. Users of the systems, administrative may have trouble with managing with the system. For instance they may have problems registering new students, or transferring everyone to the new system.

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