Holiday Bungalow Management System for Sri Lanka Navy

Abstract

At present, Sri Lanka Navy consist of huge cadre, around 60,000 including Regular and Volunteer Naval forces of both Officers and Sailors. Due to Naval personal’s job scope and the stressful working pattern, it has been facilitated 250 naval holiday bungalows all over the country to uplift the life style of them and their family members. This holiday bungalow reservation was a complete manual process which introduced lot of errors and functioned in less effective manner. Manual reservation approval process faced difficulties since it needs to consider complex decision making based on requestor’s rank, seniority and few other factors. Also, presenting bungalow information and maintaining a smooth booking operation was a major challenge for the organization. Implemented web based online system for SLN is an online system which publishes all information of holiday bungalows, nearby attractions and it has automated the manual reservation operations much efficiently and smoothly. This is capable of handling, monitoring and recording reservation requests and approvals between Navy Officers/Sailors and Management. Further it integrates with existing Human resource information system (HRIS) in SL Navy for authentication and decision making. Also, the new system evaluates and presents the complex decision making criteria during reservation approval in a simplified manner to the approver. Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been used to design the system and developed using PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Java Script other open source tool and technologies. Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology used to develop this system. The System will be hosting SLN Server room which is located Naval Headquarters and connected to all the areas through virtual private Network. Testing process of the complete system was carried out by SLN staff. New system has overcome the major disadvantages faced in manual system by reducing the time taken during reservation. But future enhancements are required make this system accessible for public over internet since the retired Navy personals and civilians also needs the reservations. Also crash recovery procedures need to be implemented to minimize the downtime. Finally converting this to a mobile application will be very useful for end users.