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A Capstone Project Proposal Presented to the Faculty of

College of Business & Technology
St. Paul University Quezon City

In Partial Fulfillment of Degree

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Group Members:

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Mary Allysa Clare L. Angco

Luisa Gumatay

Giselle Chari R. Limbo

Advisor:

Elika S. Farshidmehr

April 2017
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Chapter I

Introduction

Mobile is critical to your business and will continue to be so – whether you’re

blogging about your favorite sports team, working on the website for your community

theater, or selling products to potential clients. Make sure visitors can have a good

experience on your site when they’re visiting from their mobile devices.(Google

Developers, 2016)

In the USA, 94% of people with smartphones search for local information on their

phones. Interestingly, 77% of mobile searches occur at home or at work, places where

desktop computers are likely to be present. (Google Developers, 2016)

“In many ways, big data is suited to small business in ways that it never was for big

business – even the most potent insights are valueless if your business is not agile enough

to act on them in a timely fashion. Small businesses have the advantage of agility,

making it perfectly suited to act on data-derived insights with speed and efficiency.”

(Bernard Marr, 2016)

While analyzing technology needs, it’s important to analyze its simplicity and

flexibility. Sometimes, the technology provides a lot of information but it’s difficult to

use and businesses end up not using any of the information. (Vinil Ramdev, 2016)

Rita Sallam, VP of Research at Gartner, says that there are “approximately 70

percent of users in organizations that currently do not use BI tools or have statistical

backgrounds.” Therefore, “New approaches have the potential to transform how and

which users can derive insights from data discovery tools.” (Jeff Charles, 2017)

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Background of the Study

Big Data is by no means a new concept for most people in the business world. For

many small businesses, the use of data technology has been mostly out of reach due to

budget constraints and lack of in-house technical expertise. (Jeff Charles, 2017)

“Big data” is a big buzzword reverberating throughout the business world, and for

good reason. Big data serves as a window into employees’ professional lives. By

tracking, analyzing and sharing employee performance-related data, employers and HR

not only gain more insight on employees, but boost individual motivation and overall

engagement. (Matt Straz, 2015)

Hegde believes that self-service data is crucial for making business intelligence a

reality for businesses of any size. “As self-service tools become more prevalent, non-

technical employees can access data like never before. This helps executives at every

level of the organization to conduct analysis and speed up the decision-making process.”

(Jeff Charles, 2017)

Self-service solutions are working to use better designing practices to help solve

this problem. “By making data sets visual, business owners can start asking the right

questions and making decisions based on hard facts rather than speculation.” Hegde

explains. “The result is often better allocation of crucial technology, people, and

resources.” The key is making data presentable so all stakeholders can use it. —Jeff

Charles (2017)

“By setting goals, a small business, which necessarily must be selective with how

and where it allocates resources, will more efficiently move through its intended growth

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phases. Objectives also ensure that measurement results are valuable and timely. They

allow you to identify required data in advance. If the data you need is not currently

present, you will be able to identify sources and build the necessary dataset over time”,

— Marina Erulkar (2016)

Small businesses that successfully deploy self-service data solutions can enjoy

increased profits and reduced risk by identifying problems sooner rather than later. —Jeff

Charles (2017)

Zoher Karu, vice president, global customer optimization and data, eBay: We are

centralizing our capabilities and we are democratizing its use. I think the other aspect is

that we recognize as a team and as a company that we ourselves do not have sufficient

skills, and we require collaboration across all sorts of entities outside of American

Express. This collaboration comes from technology innovators, it comes from data

providers, it comes from analytical companies. We need to put a full package together for

our business colleagues and partners so that it’s a convincing argument that we are

developing things together, that we are colearning, and that we are building on top of

each other. We’ve used big data techniques to analyze all the different permutations to

augment that experience to more quickly resolve or enhance a particular situation. We

take the complexity out and turn it into something simple and actionable.

Statement of the Problem

1. A company that does not have a strict and ethical employee culture may have

an unfair distribution of workload among workers.

2. The cost of keeping unproductive employees and the lost in profits due to this

3. The poor management of human resources

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4. Small to medium businesses that have not employed the use of data analytics

may lose some unknown opportunities they would have known with the use of

analytics

Objectives of the study

General Objectives

The general objective of the study is to provide small to medium scale

businesses the leverage to easily incorporate data analytics into their programs for

faster and accurate decision making, and improve the quality of their services

with better management of their human resources.

Specific Objectives

To develop the system with

 The adoption of big data, smart data and fast data analytics

 The use of XAMPP, PHP, mySql, native applications, azure

bootstrapper

 The use of open sourced tools in a cohesive environment

 The presentation of smart graphical data updated in real time

Scope and Limitation

Scope

The evaluation system will be customized by the user of how the form will

look to satisfy the evaluation process of the company. The evaluation form will

contain three sections consisting of (a) content, (b) performance rating and

comments or feedback of the employee.

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The System Administrator will be granted authorization to overlook these

evaluation forms by adding, updating and removing the employee records from the

system as well as monitoring the users of the system. The System Administration will be

given a log of every evaluation made in real-time to look over those who have yet to take

the annual evaluation.

The system will be used in public and can be used in multiple platforms like

smartphones, PCs, and tablet. The data will be saved in the cloud and the evaluation will

be recorded date, time, Employee number and Department.

The System Administrator, Head of the Human Resources Department and the Head of

the Company will have authorization in the summarized data form that will be shown in a

representation of Google charts to make employee performance results easier to read.

Limitations

The system is more suitable to be used by small to medium business start

ups as it cannot hold massive data storage for evaluation. The system will only be

available online and only Managers, System Administrators, Head of the Human

Resources and the Head of the Company may be granted access to the backdoor

system.

Significance of the study

The study can help aid small and medium business enterprises in monitoring their

employee’s performance and making decisions of reliable employees or removing

employees who amassed complaints or liabilities for the company.

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Definition of terms

1. Evaluation System - refers to the entire system

2. Evaluator - refers to the type of user who will evaluate the performance of the

employee

3. Evaluate - refers to the evaluator’s activity of using the system to grade the

employee's performance

4. Admin - refers to the user who will manage the entire evaluation process

5. End users - refers to the user who will use the system

6. Mobile - refers to smartphones, such as devices running Android, iPhone, or

Windows Phone. Mobile browsers are similar to desktop browsers in that they can

render a broad set of the HTML specification, although their screen size is smaller

and in almost all cases their default orientation is vertical. (acc. to Google

Developers, 2016)

7. Small Sized Business – an enterprise composed of less than 100 members

8. Medium Sized Business – an enterprise composed of more or less than 200

members

9. Big Data – a broad term for data overload

10. Smart Data – analyzed data translated to human language or “data that you can

understand”

11. Fast Data – refers to instant information that enable real-time decision making

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Chapter II

Review of Related Literature

Introduction

This chapter is a compilation of research, journals, PDFs, articles and other forms

of literature that supports the study being conducted on this research. Thus, this chapter

will contain notable information involving the research that will serve as essential

constituents in that can affect the proposed program. Due to the nature of this proposal

being an online system that is constantly being used in modern technologies, most of the

research material that were compiled would come from the internet and other were

retrieved from articles and books that partake in the subject area of the proposal.

Foreign Literature

According to Spero, J. (2013), most people are living their lives on multiple

screens. Smartphone ownership continues to expand as even more affordable devices and

data plans hit the market. Over the past two years, smartphone adoption in the US has

grown from 36% to 61%. And tablet owners, typically associated with high disposable

incomes, represent an increasingly mainstream demographic as manufacturers introduce a

slew of more economically priced models.

As a result, consumers can now use smartphones, tablets and computers to

interact with businesses 24/7, from anywhere-- at home, at work, on a bus. Powered

especially by the rise in smartphone adoption, this constant connectivity has created

many more opportunities for marketers to connect with consumers.

With the current generation, a large majority of society has taken to having a

smartphone device wherever they go for the leisure and ease of continuously being

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updated in social media, communication, business, entertainment, education and other

forms of information that flows endlessly in the internet.

According to Gartner (2013), 1.75 billion people have mobile phones with

advanced capabilities and features reality points to an even further growth in the use of

such technology in the upcoming years.

Gartner (2014) estimates that 1.9 billion mobile phones will be shipped in 2014,in

comparison to 2013 there is an increase in the number of mobile phones by 5% which

will continue to accumulate in the following years. Information has become more

accessible and widespread with not just people but with everyday object and devices like

headphone, lamps, computers, automobiles and a variety more that grows as technology

advances.

Due to the increasing number of smartphone users, business has quickly sought

out to advertising their products and services via websites, applications, blogs and other

forms of promotion to expand their marketing range as well as gathering manpower and

resources.

According to Global Mobile Performance (2013), a business earns a large capital

from their customer’s growing demand in mobile application and surfing the internet

using their smartphones. A study conducted by Flurry has shown that people spend more

time browsing the internet using their smartphones than their PCs.

Redda(2012) states that mobile computing devices have achieved mass popularity

and a great market penetration. Though with all the capabilities of smartphones and PCs,

there is still room for improvement. The high demand for technological solutions may

cause fragmentation and difficulty as developers are sometimes stumped in finding an

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easier mean of developing reliable online systems and mobile application with the

consideration of running it in multiple platforms.

Redda(2012) added that in order to solve that would be the use of cross platform

tools that offer solutions in device functionality features, platform and device coverage

problems. It’s also a cheaper and takes less time to use.

Society has easily adapted to the Internet of things so more often than not, the masses are

now accustomed in using its features.

Online systems have proven to be advantageous in the organization of data and

reports of performances, inventory, ratings and other information. The use of an online

systems save time and resources as well as cutting down costs for the company in

exchange for a faster and accurate system. With smartphones, it makes it easier in

accessing these systems so long as the user has internet connection or access to the

internal resources of the company’s network. The systems can be open in the internet or

accessed only to one IP address. These methods will depend on the type of the security

implanted on the system to keep the information from being seen by anyone.

Though this system has proven to be beneficial in terms of saving time,

manpower and resources, steps for precaution must be assured as the information is vital

and could easily be tampered with without the proper security.

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Chapter III

Methodology

Introduction

Methodology is described to be an analytical and systematic structure of methods

applied to a field of study. It's composed of phases, designs, perspective, and concepts to

aid the proponents in their research. A methodology will not provide a solution, but a

theoretical foundation for understanding which set of methods can be applied to a

specific case or study.

In this chapter, the researchers will present the proposed system in the form of

conceptual frameworks and DFDs. A conceptual framework is a representation of the

researcher’s proposal to explain the actions and courses of the system in an input, process

and output category. A DFD or data flow diagram on the other hand is a representation of

the movement from one entity to another and showing the relationship of the data

between those entities.

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

USERS Results of the evaluation

-Enter Username and -Submit the evaluation would be submitted to the
Password form following:
-Fill out Evaluation Form
Admin -Head of the Company
- Check if the evaluation -Head of Human
forms are valid Resources
- Check the statistical -System Administrator
charts of the evaluation -Department Heads

Figure 1.  Conceptual Framework

Figure 1 shows the basic concept and steps involved in the system.

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Data Flow Diagram (Proposed System)

Figure 2. Context Diagram

Figure 2 shows the people involved with the system and the input/outfit of data

and decisions within the system.

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Start

No

Forgot
Enter Username Enter E-Mail
Username or Yes
and Password Address
Password?

No Verify Confirmation
of Account

Valid?
Enter New
Password or
Username
Yes

Home

List of Departments
List of Employees to be
Overall Performance Log out
Reviewed
Rating

Select Department
Select Employee Profile

View Graphical
View Employee Profile
Representation of
Overall Department
performance

Yes Print
Print? No
Cancelled Print
Print? No
Cancelled

Yes Yes
Yes

Return to List of
Profile Printed Graphs Printed
Departments

Return To list of
No Return to Home No
employees?

Log out

End

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