Human Capital Information System for Senaka Group of Companies

Abstract

Employees are the backbone of any company. Therefore their management plays a major role in deciding the success of an organization. Manual record keeping is not a worth way of managing reliable details of an organization. But the Human Capital Information System makes it easy for the employer to keep track of all records. This application allows the administrator to manage employee details in efficient way. Each employee in the database is associated with a position can be added and edited when need arises. Most of all, the employer can assess their progress in order to keep track of employee performance. As Human Capital Information System is a web based system, it is flexible and easy to use and able to manage the crucial organization asset (people). It is simple to understand and can be used by anyone who is not even familiar with simple employees system. It is user friendly and just asks the user to follow step by step operations by giving easy to follow options. It is fast and can perform many operations for a company. The combination of these modules into one application assures the perfect platform for re-engineering and aligning Human Resource processes along with the organizational goals. Human Capital Information System brings about an easy way of maintaining the details of employees working in any organization. Laravel was selected as the framework which is free and open source php framework and intended for following the MVC architectural patterned. PHP language was selected as the server side scripting language and MYSQL was used to have database connection. XAMPP is free and open source cross platform which is basically runs local host or a local server and this gives suitable environment for testing MYSQL, PHP projects on the local computers. The goal of this document is to provide solutions for the drawbacks of the current manual system and the performance added to the newly implemented web based application. It further describes the Background of the project, Requirements Gathering and Techniques, Design, Testing and Project Evaluation criteria.