Appointment Scheduling Portal for Samindi Creations

Abstract

Time Management is useful for anyone who wants to complete a task, to do daily work or handling a profitable business. There are many advantages when practicing good time management. One of the advantages of successful time management is avoiding the circumstance of rushing to get a task or work finish. Appointment or scheduling is one of the key controlling parts of time management in a business as well as in professional work. Normally, in the past, telephone was used to make an appointment or scheduling a business meeting with other partners. As the Internet has become an ongoing emerging source that tends to expand more and more in the world; online appointment or scheduling systems were introduced in many business service areas. Most popular area is health care, because it gives more advantages to doctors in handling their patients visiting times. If the doctor is not available, then the channeled or appointment placed patients get to know it via a phone call or an email or a message. In that way, both parties time will be managed in a productive manner. To quote an example, the Appointment Scheduling Portal develops as an appointment scheduling service. Using Internet anyone can access this Appointment Scheduling Portal and manage their appointments according to their need. When the scheduled appointment is changed both customer and client is informed via an email or SMS message. Appointment Scheduling Portal web system was developed using client server module and Object Oriented concept, Analyzing and designing were done using Unified Modeling Language (UML). C# was used as the programming language, with Microsoft SQL database. IIS (Internet Information Server) was used as the server technology. Code development was done using Visual Studio and Adobe Dreamweaver. Layout designs and other graphics were done with graphic software Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver tools. By launching this Appointment Scheduling Portal, business and professional firms of Sri Lanka will get the advanced appointment management through the World Wide Web. Furthermore, the small businesses and individuals will gain more benefits through time management with scheduling portal and increase their revenue.