Resource and Asset Management System for East West Seeds Co. Inc.: Design and Development

Abstract

The development of Resource and Asset Management System follows the traditional System Development Cycle (SDLC) model. The SDLC is a complete set of steps that a team of information system professionals, including database designers and programmers follow in an organization. There are several SDLC models in existence. The oldest model that was originally regarded is the waterfall model. The waterfall model is a sequence of stages in which the output of each stage becomes the input for the next. The steps are not purely linear so it is possible to backtrack to previous steps when a prior decisions need to be reconsidered. The Identification and Selection phase identifies the system requirement, Initialization and Planning phase, generate a high-level view of the intended project and determine the goals of the project. In this phase the scope of the system were determine to ensure the project feasibility. In the Analysis phase, involves breaking down the system in different module and persistently study the functional specifications and draw conclusions from it. The System Design phase includes emphasis to Logical and Physical Design of the system, write the code and build the application. The researcher makes use of ASP.NET as the programming language to integrate the operation of East West Seed Co. Inc. in particular the ICT and General Affairs department for the back-end MySQL. The Implementation phase requires testing and installing the new system, training users and finalizing the documentation. Lastly is the Maintenance phase, which includes changes and enhancements.  

Keywords: Resource and asset management, Design, Development.