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Equipment Tracking And Management System, Nita Shenoi
Equipment Tracking And Management System, Nita Shenoi
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Description: An online interface was created to enter details of equipment from off site and remote locations. There ids tracking of asset tags, software license and lease expiration maintenance amongst various other uses. The system is being used to • send alerts upon expiry of licenses; • help in planning or buying and maintaining new equipment; • help keep details of PC's and/or laptops loaned to employees for telecommuting; • store issue of items like ergonomic keyboards, headphones and so on; • Track tickets issued for PC and other systems related problems, date fixed and user feedback. The following modules …
Citrix Solution For The Great Plains Corporate Accounting System For Us Bioenergy Corporation, Nathan W. Anderson
Citrix Solution For The Great Plains Corporate Accounting System For Us Bioenergy Corporation, Nathan W. Anderson
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
US BioEnergy is a fairly new corporation in the business of providing various services in the ethanol industry. The corporation currently consists of an executive office in Brookings, SD; operations center in Wichita, KS; corporate office in Inver Grove Heights, MN; ethanol manufacturing facilities in Woodbury, MI; Albert City, IA; Central City, NE; and Ord, NE. The scope of the project is to provide US BioEnergy with a secure Citrix solution that will centralize and standardize the Great Plains accounting system throughout the organization and allow for sufficient usability, scalability, and manageability for the entire company. Citrix is a fast, …
Product Grading Management System, Ben Condol
Product Grading Management System, Ben Condol
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Product Grading Management System (PGMS) is a comprehensive, statistical and stand-alone, control process application. This PGMS is web based and the first version being developed that will be utilized to define industry standards. Considering a broad array of products, the control process application in scrutiny is designed and deployed for two specific products: tomatoes and spinach. The company used in this paper is fictional; however, the examples are based on real scenarios experienced during a two year stint in the Supply Chain Management & Manufacturing industry. Product Quality Grading requires recording, tracking, managing and displaying quality data that is collected …
Web Based Insurance Enrollment System, Prasun Kumar Rachamalla
Web Based Insurance Enrollment System, Prasun Kumar Rachamalla
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Web Based Insurance Enrollment Systems have taken control of most of the Insurance Industry hereby making them more consumers driven and administratively efficient. This project aims to design and develop a similar system which provides favorable grounds for Insurance agents within an organization to enroll their customers using current technologies of web development. Specifically, the main task is to formulate the duties of designing an n-tier architecture system according to the corporate standards of the client organization. As a part of the project team, it is required to design and develop some of the web functionalities and implement them according …
Order Processing System, Sandeep Modugu
Order Processing System, Sandeep Modugu
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Developing business demands high technology needs for performing its basic operations. Processing of orders and maintaining consistent data has been the major focus through years. This report is a mere representation of a system, which allows a high-end Order Processing System. Maintaining consistent data, ease of use system for managing and recording transactions and transformation of incoming order flows has been the major focus behind its development. This has been accomplished using tools provided by the .Net Framework such as ADO .Net for talking to database and ASP .Net for processing electronic orders, both using C# language. Thus, we have …
Error Tracking System Using Remote Object, Omar F. Azad
Error Tracking System Using Remote Object, Omar F. Azad
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
In recent years there is a trend in software market where more and more organizations are using standard customized software for their different operational needs. Error Tracking System using Remote Object is a special type of application software to track error where manufacturer of these customized software wants to track error in their software which is used by other companies. In other words Error Tracking System using Remote Object is a special type of solution to address specific situation. The ideal situation for this system is where a large application is running for different client but the owner of the …
Legacy Migration Application Inventory, Mark L. Dykstra
Legacy Migration Application Inventory, Mark L. Dykstra
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
As CNA Surety migrates its legacy mainframe systems off the mainframe and onto a different platform, it is necessary to have an accurate inventory of database tables, batch and on-line programs, reports, flat files (non-database files accessed by batch jobs). Staff members have been working on compiling documentation about each and every on-line program and Cobol program and batch job, and there is a need to store this information in a centralized place. All of this information should be available to developers who work on CNA Surety's mainframe systems, and should be available to designers ofreplacement systems. This project describes …
Xml And Web Interface For Cable Modem Provisioning, Sandeep K. Bowenapally
Xml And Web Interface For Cable Modem Provisioning, Sandeep K. Bowenapally
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
The goal of this project is to provide an application to automatically provision cable modems, create Email Accounts on the mail server and develop an interface for users to access equipment, customer Infonnation. This application has two modules automated provisioning and a web Interface for users. The purpose of the project is to make the end user's jobs more efficient and smooth. With the present system users have to use different interfaces based on the location of the customer and users are expressing extreme dissatisfaction over the slow nature of the process of one system and the necessity to enter …
Development And Integration Of An Organization's Information Systems And Enterprise Web Applications Via Enterprise Portals Of Sap, Ankit Jain
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
This Project uses an enterprise portal which integrates organizations applications and information for different sets of users, enabling employees and managers to carry out there routine tasks from anywhere and anytime, serving as a single point of information for an organization's employees, customer or partners and helps them access a company's services as per their individual access levels. This project also develops an enterprise application which allows employees to file their benefits enrollment online. The application developed is then displayed with in the organizations enterprise portals. The project uses SAP provided development tools and supported technologies and is developed for …
Inventory Management Of Medical Drugs, Srinivas Jujjavarapu
Inventory Management Of Medical Drugs, Srinivas Jujjavarapu
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Inventory Management is the active control program that allows the management of sales, payments and purchases. Inventory Management are quite complex in nature and involve nonlinear, chaotic and unpredictable behavior thus requiring highly innovative quantitative techniques in order to model their structure. The aim of this project is to explore a relatively new and integrated approach to manage Inventory. This approach can be used successfully for managing models from any discipline. The new system provides detailed inventory information and reference resources to department personnel. It is easy to integrate easily with other applications such as order management and financial management.
A Small Community Web Site, Dale O. Brovold
A Small Community Web Site, Dale O. Brovold
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Small communities have difficulties in trying to retain and attract new families. Many people who are looking at new communjties do not have a place to check out information about these communities. Large commuruties have dedicated websites to attract new farrulies and businesses. These sites provide information about local business, government, and school information. Large communities also have the resources to develop and maintain websites for this purpose. Small communities usually do not have these resources available. This project will provide a solution to this problem by providing a web site that provides the basic communjty information about local businesses, …
Service Center Project, David Stendel
Service Center Project, David Stendel
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
This report is concerning the creation of a service center system for the Business, IT & Public Services department at Valencia Community College (VCC) in Orlando, Florida. Since the department did not have a formal system in place for tracking faculty and staff problems and requests, one was built to assist and centralize communication and documentation. It would also facilitate the department with justifying budget changes. The main components of the system include a single telephone number, a Web site, a database, and an e-mail aspect. The Web site is made up of a home page to link the other …
Project Content Management Tool, Ravikanth Reddy Singavaram
Project Content Management Tool, Ravikanth Reddy Singavaram
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Yash Solutions is an emerging leader in enterprise and datawarehousing solutions that facilitate corporations to operate more efficiently, implement IT solutions quickly keeping minimum system downtimes and enable to achieve their business objectives rapidly. The main problem for the employee who is working on different projects in a company is they get the email from their project members regarding the project start date, updates regarding the project and project end date. The employee needs to keep track of all the mails what he gets in order to be in touch with the other employees, if he needs to contact with …
Meridian Management Officemate, Naixin Xu
Meridian Management Officemate, Naixin Xu
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
A dynamic web application was needed that would improve the workflow and communication efficiency among Meridian management and its six optometry offices. The purpose of this paper is to document the requirements and subsequent implementation of the Meridian management officemate application developed. The scope of the web application was to develop the following features: file sharing, survey taking, daily entry and memo posting. The web application was for internal staff uses; therefore, access to the application was restricted. Only authorized users were allowed to access the system. The system was also role based. Users were only being able to access …
Corrective Action Tracker, Kranthi Chigullapally
Corrective Action Tracker, Kranthi Chigullapally
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
The Correct Action Tracker application is a web based application which stores all the details of the Issues. Corrective Action tracker provides an automated structure to track document and resolve the Issues that impact product quality, product build and product Fulfillment. The objective of The infrastructure is to serve as a knowledge base for all the Operation related issues that impact the manufacturing Life cycle of Brocade products. It focuses on Manufacturing related Issues and Resolution Process. The project report gives an outline of the entire project. The Background of the problem, System overview and Objectives of the project described …
Tuition Reduction Incentive Program Application (Compuscrip), Steve Williams
Tuition Reduction Incentive Program Application (Compuscrip), Steve Williams
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Often, private organizations such as schools, clubs, and non-profits operate on modest budgets in order to keep tuition, dues, or other types of fees associated with their organization affordable for its members. An option to help supplement tuition costs or fees is for the organization to partner with local businesses that will provide a "kick back" to the organization or members for purchasing debit cards from the businesses. The standard/generic term for this type of program is SCRIP. SCRIP is "a Latin term that means anything used instead of money" (United Scrip). This paper will describe a plan to create …
A Web-Based Portal For Aspiring Students And Prospective Employers In .Net & C#, Vidya C. Tripuraneni
A Web-Based Portal For Aspiring Students And Prospective Employers In .Net & C#, Vidya C. Tripuraneni
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Career Services System is a web-based application designed to assist students in their career development and to expose them to options that best fit their individual career needs. This application allows them to search and apply for jobs online, upload their resumes and submit them to the employer and Schedule/Change/Cancel their interview appointments. Through this application employers can post their jobs online, search for students and review students' job applications. The application is developed in C# and ASP.NET with Oracle Database at the back end. The major deliverable of this project is a web-based portal for students and employers. This …
Data Processing Using Datastage, Srinivas Yeddula
Data Processing Using Datastage, Srinivas Yeddula
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Pegasysoft has undertaken the project for one of its clients to provide them customer (e-mail) and their store (store events) information. The client data-warehouse tables and point of sales data would be sourced and processed extensively. The client will use the information for e-mail campaign program. The project module consists of building the customer and store information files, which are build by using Erwin Data Modeler and IBM DataStage server jobs (Extraction Transform Load (ETL) processes). After testing these files are sent to client in a secure mode. For this purpose a secure copy protocol (SCP) connection is established with …
From Substandard To Competitive, Cindi Scibelli
From Substandard To Competitive, Cindi Scibelli
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Technology has grown immensely over the past decade. Several cutting-edge companies are now finding their technology obsolete. Dallas Technical School (DT) is expanding and has realized the need for updates. This project will describe a needs assessment and viable solution for DT. Educational facilities are not able to compete as would a corporate business; therefore the approach of this project will be as cost effective as possible. This includes utilizing as much of the existing infrastructure as possible and purchasing modem, but cost effective technology. This thesis represents a response to a Request for Proposal (RFP) as a complete plan …
Technical And Environmental Challenges Of Collaboration Engineering In Distributed Environments, Halbana Tarmizi, Matt Payne, Cherie Noteboom, Chi Zhang, Lucas Steinhauser, Gert-Jan De Vreede, Ilze Zigurs
Technical And Environmental Challenges Of Collaboration Engineering In Distributed Environments, Halbana Tarmizi, Matt Payne, Cherie Noteboom, Chi Zhang, Lucas Steinhauser, Gert-Jan De Vreede, Ilze Zigurs
Research & Publications
Collaboration in distributed settings has become a reality in organizational life. Yet we still have much to learn about issues inherent to distributed collaboration. One important area of study is the integration of Collaboration Engineering in distributed virtual teams for helping them in structuring their interaction. The field of Collaboration Engineering offers promising guidelines for process structures, but its application in distributed arenas is just beginning to be studied. We report on the design and development of a new collaboration environment for the incorporation of Collaboration Engineering principles, as well as the results of an initial study that examined leadership …
Renewal Letter Generation System For Continental Western Insurance Company, Tom Shide
Renewal Letter Generation System For Continental Western Insurance Company, Tom Shide
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
The idea for this project was born in a meeting of supervisors in my department at Continental Western Group (CWG) Insurance Company. This meeting took place about nine months ago in January of 2006. We have a system in place to generate letters that are sent to policyholders and agents based on specific criteria for each letter. The system was put in place three years ago and although it serves its purpose much better than its predecessor, it has caused us many problems. During our meeting my immediate supervisor and the person that supervises the other team of Business Systems …
Customer Extranet Metrics, Marianne C. Gorecki
Customer Extranet Metrics, Marianne C. Gorecki
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Pass/Fail and Success/Failure are both terms we use to assess the impact of a specific task or project. Measuring items in a subjective, repeatable manner is key to assessing current status. The question to be asked is "How do you know that a project has been a success without using a metric?". Success can not be measured unless it can be realized. Metrics can not be realized unless they are defined. This paper will review an existing extranet site that lacks defined measurements and will discuss the issues in the current environment. These issues will be analyzed and converted into …
Using Hypertext Preprocessor Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Phpldap) To Manage Infrastructure Services For An Educational Institution, John B. Lukach
Using Hypertext Preprocessor Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Phpldap) To Manage Infrastructure Services For An Educational Institution, John B. Lukach
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Independent School District #299 needed a web-based application to manage user accounts and groups of the heterogeneous computer system. PHPLDAP was developed internally using PHP programming language since a satisfactory solution was not currently available. The computer system design was critical to the achievement of single sign-on through a centralized Sun Java System Directory Server. The project takes a close look at integration of the schools computer system specifically the development of: Sun Java System (LDAP) Directory server setup, Samba file server setup, pGina Microsoft Windows client authentication setup, Apple Computer client authentication setup, and Smart Filter web filtering setup. …
Image Database For Fillbrandt Observatory, Stephen Douglas Hawks
Image Database For Fillbrandt Observatory, Stephen Douglas Hawks
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
South Dakota State University has constructed an observatory outside of Brookings, South Dakota. Users will be able to remotely access the CCD cameras mounted on the telescopes and telescope positioning hardware. Once the user has captured the image it is stored on an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server for later download. The main objectives pursued for this project were the development of a method to store, organize, search, and download images captured by a user. The storage of captured image information and user data was needed for later image queries. Since a variety of users could be accessing the image …
Workflow Management, Mathew Lehmann
Workflow Management, Mathew Lehmann
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
A temporary workflow system was needed that supported most of the features of an enterprise system, but could be placed into production in a short timeframe. The purpose of this paper is to document the requirements and subsequent implementation of the workflow system developed. The scope of the workflow system included the ability to create, find, and edit work requests. Unauthorized activity must by limited through security controls and activity performed in the system should be summarized in reports. During request creation, the system should display questions and provides options for possible response. Responses can be either opinion or required. …
Electronic Marketing System, Tariq Jamal
Electronic Marketing System, Tariq Jamal
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Tariq Jamal will provide DSU an Electronic Marketing System that will exist within Tariq' s web server. INFS-788' s project supervisor, committee members and coordinators will be able to create campaign, electronic newsletters and electronic surveys to communicate with targeted audience. Internal support staff and administrator will have a complete access to Electronic Marketing System. The cost of the project is projected at $21,750 plus applicable taxes. This includes project management, technical development, designing of screen elements, testing and launch. This is a calculated cost and based upon the information provided prior to the project awarded to the researcher. Software …
Usdsu Online/Interactive Student Bulletin Board, Brenda Vanormer
Usdsu Online/Interactive Student Bulletin Board, Brenda Vanormer
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
The composition of student's today attending a university varies greatly. USDSU has a very unique student-base comprised mainly of non-traditional students. The students are on the campus for limited amounts of time mainly to attend their courses. These same students may be in need of certain services or products and may be unaware of how to obtain the information. The Resource Center at USDSU does currently utilize the traditional corkboard bulletin board but many students are unaware of this bulletin board. By implementing this online/interactive bulletin board for USDSU, this allows for quicker disbursement of information to the students as …
A Diagnostics Server For Monitoring Led Components, Pavan Gandra
A Diagnostics Server For Monitoring Led Components, Pavan Gandra
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Daktronics supplies visual communication systems worldwide. Its product range from small scoreboard, displays boards for traffic to complete scoring system for all levels of sports competition. Some times due to varying temperature the LED's in the component get destroyed and which could damage the entire display board. To prevent this from happening Daktronics came up with Diagnostic Server project. In the Diagnostic project, the component sends the device status information through the web service. This information is stored in the database for diagnosis. The commands that are to be executed are sent to the component. The response of the component …
Web Based Transcription Processing System For Q-Set, Inc., Michael L. Waldner
Web Based Transcription Processing System For Q-Set, Inc., Michael L. Waldner
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
The transcription industry is rapidly changing from traditional "cassette tapes" to digital recordings. This paper describes how we've automated a transcription business (QSet, Inc.) to increase productivity and create a competitive advantage by becoming the leader in the digital transcription market space. This is a change in the transcription market space as it changes from a physical cassette tape recording delivered physically (such as Fed-Ex or UPS) to recordings transformed to digital format and delivered over the Internet. The industry now has the capabilities with the use of information technology and ecommerce to record the interview digitally, send the digital …
Automation Of Graduate Program Plan Of Study At Dsu, Olusola Awonuga
Automation Of Graduate Program Plan Of Study At Dsu, Olusola Awonuga
Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become one of the basic building blocks of modern society; providing assistance in every facet of life including academic operations throughout higher education. The applications of Information Technology are accelerating the transformation of the global economy by improved speed, capacity and processing of data. These technologies and applications bear the potential of a massive progress, particularly in school management and administration; it underpins the success of academic activities by providing efficient infrastructure and at the same time adds value to the processes of learning. The Internet, with the aid of creative websites, is the …