Information and Management System For Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Sri Lanka

Abstract

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) is an Institute of religious sisters who serve people in many ways such as teaching, nursing and counseling. FMM Sri Lanka is one province of this Institute which is spread all over the world. There are many issues that the sisters have to address. At the moment many sisters are very much involved in the paper work consuming lot of time and energy and the sisters cannot cope with. To work abreast world and to address to the issues of the people while resolving the internal issues such as managing the personal data and important information is the biggest challenge that the Institute is facing these days. So the FMM Sri Lanka has recognized the need of a computer system which can automate their processes and through which the information can be kept safe and at hand to be used for various types of decision making such as assigning the matching personnel for missions or to decide on requesting .The Proposed System for FMM Sri Lanka addresses the key issues maintaining the history of the information about sisters, mission and convents at the same time it provides the automation of the basic accounting system at local level and at Provincial level. Thus providing the bursar a release for the work carried out writing and re-writing in the books. This system will also provide various reports to be sent to Rome where the General house is situated. In simple words it is a combination of human Resource Management (HR) and Accounting System. The system is developed using NetBeans IDE 7.2 and SQL Server 2008 as the database server. Java was the coding language. iReports were used to generate reports. Process Model was Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Object Oriented Concept was adopted all throughout the process. A system which successfully achieved requirements which were identified during the analysis stage was installed in the client machine as it was accepted by the client.