DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTRANET BASED STAFF MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED INSTANT MESSAGING FRAMEWORK

Subject Area: Engineering

This paper presents the development of an intranet-based staff management system with integrated instant messaging framework. The methodology employed for the development of the new system is the rapid application development and object-oriented analysis design methodology. The methods used are the registration process, login, staff management and instant messaging notification. The system design was done using universal modeling language which employed modeling diagrams such as activity diagram, sequence diagram, use case diagram user interface diagram to present the instant messaging algorithm. The front end was implemented with Node.JS while the backend was implemented with MySQL. The result when tested showed that the new system allowed the admin to send message instantly to basic staff at 98.09% delivery accuracy and when cross validated, the delivery accuracy achieved is 95.79%. The reason the tolerable faction of the staff did not receive the message was due to limitation on the service provider path such as poor coverage at the point, losses or due to the unavailability of the staff cell at the moment. The system was integrated at the computer science department for staff management and tested. The result showed that it was able to instantly notify selected staff member of the message, thus reducing cost of printing circulars, transportation, time of printing and distributing circulars, etc.