WEB BASED MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SRI LANKA PORTS AUTHORITY

Abstract

There were more than eighteen divisions inside the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, which carry out several management activities such as Operational Management Information, Finance Management Information Systems. These activities were carried out manually. Handling those activities manually was difficult and time consuming. Also the SLPA had to assign several laborers for those purposes. Therefore a software project was proposed to develop a web-based management information system for Sri Lanka Ports Authority. The Linear sequential model (waterfall approach) was used for the system development process. First feasibility study and then requirement analysis were done. At this phase information were collected by interviews with potential users and going through day today documents. In the designing stage the intranet & user interfaces of the system were designed according to the user requirements. After designing phase the system was implemented using sever side scripting technology called Active Sever Pages (ASP), JS,cript & VB,Script as the scripting languages and manipulated data using Structured Query Language (SQL). The database was implemented using Microsoft Access. User Interfaces, links and images were created using Macromedia Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Next the components were tested individually and finally the integrated system was tested. The result of this software product was a user friendly organizational web based management information system to handle information related to the Operational Management and Finance Management sections for Sri Lanka Ports Authority.