Development of an Enterprise Resource Planning System for Information Coordination in Higher Institutions

Abstract

This paper presents a development of an enterprise resource planning system for information coordination amongst staff members in higher institutions. Presently, the mode of information dissemination in most institutions is manual which makes information slow, time consuming and unsecured. This in turn causes late action being taken on information. Cascade style sheet (CSS), Adobe Dreamweaver Cascading Style 4 Editor, HTML and the Java Script were used for the web page design, and the Adobe framework for graphics. PHP was used for the web development to produce dynamic pages. The database was designed using MySQL and Navicat. The result of the evaluation returned the following values: 3.83, 4.05, and 3.41 for the SDR, SRI and SEU respectively on a Likert-type rating scale of 1 to 5. This system focused on dissemination of information by electronic means in Higher Institutions.