MIS PROJECT REPORT -

ZABDESK
On ZabDesk Software

Group Members:
Muhammad Yousuf Khan (Registration ID: 1439124)
Juzer Burhani (Registration ID: 1439150)

Submitted To:
Mr. Jawad Bhatti
MIS Project Report - ZABDESK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We like to express our gratitude to Almighty who has given us the strength to pursue and complete
the report on ZabDesk software as part of our Management Information System course.

We dedicate our work to our parents for teaching us the importance of education and to our families
on having stern believe and support in our abilities and capabilities. We would also like to express
our sincere gratitude to our teacher Mr. Jawad Bhatti for providing their invaluable guidance,
suggestions, and comments, throughout the entire duration of the course as well as giving his
feedback throughout the preparation of report.

We would also appreciate the effort of Mr. Wajeeh-ul-Hassan for providing his input on technical
matters pertaining to the report. As part of the SZABIST network team his value-able feedback
and insight help us in apprehending the working of systems which are essential part of the report.

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Contents
Executive Summary: .....................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of Organization: .......................................................................................................................4
The Vision: ................................................................................................................................................4
The Mission: .............................................................................................................................................4
Guidelines and Policies: ............................................................................................................................4
Campuses and Disciplines:........................................................................................................................5
Need for Software: .......................................................................................................................................5
Hardware and Software Requirements of Software: ...................................................................................5
Software Requirements:...........................................................................................................................6
Hardware Requirements: .........................................................................................................................6
Introduction of Software: .............................................................................................................................6
Explanation of the Software (with Snapshots): ............................................................................................7
Faculty Portal:...........................................................................................................................................7
Student Portal:........................................................................................................................................11
Function and Reports: ................................................................................................................................16
Functions: ...............................................................................................................................................17
Reports: ..................................................................................................................................................17
SWOT Analysis of Software: .......................................................................................................................17
Strengths:- ..............................................................................................................................................18
Weaknesses:-..........................................................................................................................................18
Opportunities:- .......................................................................................................................................18
Threats:- .................................................................................................................................................18
Future Development of Software:..............................................................................................................19
Recommendations:.....................................................................................................................................19
Bibliography:...............................................................................................................................................20
Appendices .................................................................................................................................................21
Appendix A: Plagiarism Report ...............................................................................................................21
Appendix B: Evidence of Reference.......................................................................................................27

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Executive Summary:
This report reflects the apprehension and working technological unifying software for the Shaheed
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) that has been formed with
objective of inculcating the quality education in students among deprived areas of Pakistan as
reflected by its vision and mission statement.

In order to achieve the primary objective the institute needs to be equipped with technological
platform to integrate the resource sharing needs among stakeholders. ZabDesk is the solution
which basically developed on C sharp programming language and integration is done using ERP
system at the back-end to maintain sharing of the organizational resources. The software has
certain hardware and software requirements which are mandatory for it perform as per the need to
develop the software.

The report finds the internal and external factors affecting the platform using SWOT analysis. The
analysis help us identified the strong points and the weaknesses from internal perspective as well
as opportunities and threats from external environment. The organization is aware of the prevailing
problems with this platform and has plans to cater them in future. The software does not provide
complete financial automation and lacks human resource function from the system.

Recommendations discussed includes:

Lack of integration between partner financial institutes (banks) and organization and students
bear suffering.

Non-availability of forms on the portal which are necessary for students.

The report presented has some limitations as there are time and access constraints are present. The
system has various modules, however, we have consider only Faculty and Students module. So
the reports generated by system are pertinent to only the two functional areas under discussion.

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Introduction of Organization:
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) is a fully chartered
institute which is approved by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan as degree
rewarding institute and is ranked as highest W ranking by HEC whereas it has been ranked as 6th
university in Business category of recent HEC rankings. SZABIST has been ranked as one of finest
institute by leading international magazines such as BusinessWeek and Asia Inc. It also affiliation
with various national and international bodies.

The vision and mission statement guides the goals and future endeavor of the organization as:

The Vision:
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology shall be a world class institute
recognized globally for its excellence in education, scholarship in research and distinction in
service.

The Mission:
The institute has been established with the objectives of producing highly qualified, scientific
and technical personnel to meet the country's requirements of:

Conducting state-of-the-art scientific and technological research and development in

support of the private and public sector;
Providing hi-tech scientific and technological assistance to the Pakistan industry to enable
it to compete with the world industries in global trading;
Providing highly trained scientific and technological personnel to be able to attract the
growth of high-tech industries and foreign and Pakistani investment;
Providing a sound socio-economic and scientific base and infrastructure to Pakistan to be
able to meet the economic and technological challenges of the 21st century.

Guidelines and Policies:

The institute has several policies enforced to ensure that quality education is imparted to the
students. The policies are aligned in line with international standards in terms of admissions,
educational level, attendance, examinations and grading. SZABIST has also focus on producing

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quality research papers, dissertation, and thesis and research projects. The plagiarism level is
checked using Turnitin software which is adopted as standard worldwide.

Campuses and Disciplines:

There are five campuses of the institute located in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Islamabad, and
Dubai (U.A.E.). These campuses offer multiple programs in various disciplines.

SZABIST is offering programs in Management Sciences, Media Sciences, Social Sciences,

Computer Science, Mechatronic Engineering and Biosciences.

Need for Software:

The primary purpose of creating ZabDesk is to automate the business processes at the university.
It is providing platform to employees, faculty and students. The employees have access to
centralized resources and can coordinate with their peers, supervisors using the software. The
system provides platform to various departments within the organization. Students and Faculty
uses the software for academic purposes. Unlike practices in the past where students have to
register courses, check attendance and view their results manually, now they can do all these
activities online using ZabDesk. Similarly, faculty members also have to perform their routine
tasks manually which is quite cumbersome. The facilitators/teachers can now update students
attendance and marks online. Therefore implementation of ZabDesk has automate the processes
within the organization.

The need is to manage the complex relationship with its clients is of utmost importance for any
higher education institute. The absence of such platform would not have only hinder the uniformity
of information and costly but absence of standards will tarnish the reputation and image of the
institution as services will be inconsistent and fragmented. Therefore, the necessity of having such
unifying platform is mandatory for institute to serve and monitor their clients so they can make
stronger bonds with them.

Hardware and Software Requirements of Software:

The implementation of the ZabDesk has to meet some software and hardware requirements.

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Software Requirements: C sharp programming language is needed to develop and maintain the
virtual interfaces and ERP system is used for backend integration of the users to the centralized
database. Internet browser is also required to access the portal such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla
Firefox and Google Chrome etc.

Hardware Requirements:
In order to implement the software and associated database, the servers for Operating System (OS)
is Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2012 is used. These servers has some hardware requirements
which are as follows:

Criteria Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2012

CPU 2 GHz or Faster Minimum 1 GHz
RAM 2 GB or greater 2 GB or greater
Storage Requirement (HDD) Foundation: 10 GB or greater
Other editions:32 GB or Minimum 6 GB
greater

Other hardware requirements are LCD, LAN/Wi-Fi cards, and peripherals like mouse and
keyboard.

Introduction of Software:
Any academic institute requires solution to automate their functions and processes. ZabDesk is a
modular, client-server based system which covers most academic management tasks. It has been
designed to meet the requirement of automation of business processes at any academic institute,
automating the administrative, financial and processes to facilitate every individual and process
involved. The software currently caters the academic discipline completely and financial
department partially.

The design of application requires thorough analysis of the system requirement for current and
future requirement of the organization. The virtual interfaces of the application is developed using
C-Sharp programming language by the students of Computer Science (CS) department of the
institute. The design includes back-end integration using Educational Employee Relationship

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2
Management ( ) which is basically database engineering and communication system meant
2
for the organization and provides access information to one central location. is integrated
with back end ERP system for data redundancy and to ensure updated data is available to all
members across the organization. The data and information is available for academia (faculty and
students), administration, finance, records and registration and library activities.

Explanation of the Software (with Snapshots):

Faculty Portal:
1. This is the login page for the faculty:

2. Below is the first page that appears for the faculty:

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3. The faculty will select the course and program to view students enroll and other options

4. The faculty has option of post notice for students on Your Notice Board. On the right
hand options are available for faculty to choose

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5. The snapshots below is outline and grading that can post in Faculty Course Outline

6. Following is the snapshot of Faculty Lecture Progress i.e. class scheduled in the course

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7. Below is the Course Portfolio Files where faculty can post lecture slides, books, etc.

8. Course Lecture Attendance shows the lecture attendance of students either Present,
Absent, Late or Excuse

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9. Faculty post marks of the students against each head in Course Recap Sheet. The
faculty first select the head in which they want to post i.e. Quiz, Final, Mid-term, Report

Student Portal:
1. Following is the login page to access the portal:

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2. There are various options in My Account to manage it. The first one is Change
Password Request.

3. Another option is ID Card Request to request for renewal/new card.

4. Finally Profile Request option allow us to change personal particulars earlier provided.

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5. In courses tab there are multiple options. First one is Offered Courses.

6. Course Registration option allow us to register online courses.

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7. Current Semester let student view their progress of ongoing semester.

A. Attendance allows to view the attendance in current semester

B. Course Files allows to view lectures, tutorials uploaded by the teacher.

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C. Course Outline allows to view outline of the course.

D. Course Recap gives student view their marks against each head.

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8. Previous Semester in courses tab let the student view outline and course files of all
previous courses

9. Course Withdrawal allows the student to get himself/herself de-register from course.

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10. Courses tab has Semester Result option that allows to view cumulative as well as
CGPA of individual semester.

11. Course Improvement allows the students to register in any previous course with intent
to improve their result in that specific course.

Function and Reports:

As mentioned earlier that the main reason to deploy ZabDesk software solution is to automate
various process within the environment of SZABIST. Like any Management Information system,
ZabDesk also generates reports based on the input. The functions and reports under our selected
section are as follows:-

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Functions:
The key function this system has done is to provide the unified platform to faculty, students and
staff of the university. The system will ensure the availability of organizational resources by having
single database to members based on their domain and role within the organization. This system
implementation will result in uniformity of decision making and avoidance of duplication which
is prone to occur in the manual system within an organization. The platform also serve as great
tool for course delivery and management as it facilitates students and the faculty.

Reports:
The modules we consider are Students and Faculty. The reports which ZabDesk generates within
these modules are attendance, results of the students, and students feedback.

The faculty enter the attendance which can either be Present, Absent, Late or Excuse. The
university has policy of maximum three absent allowed in a certain course and system is linked
with SMS system. So in case of two absents a caution, for three absence a final warning and on
fourth course removal text message has been sent to the student.

The faculty do not have to calculate individual grades. The teachers simply enter marks student
obtained in each head mentioned in their respective course. The system will calculate course-wise,
semester-wise and overall CGPA of the student.

Moreover, there is option available to students where they can enter feedback of the facilitator and
upon the feedback a consolidated report is send to the concern faculty members so they can take
note of the improvement in different aspects of the teaching expected by them.

SWOT Analysis of Software:

SWOT matrix or analysis is an acronym used for identifying Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities
and Threats of an organization, product, project, industry or a business venture. This analysis
approach is beneficial in specifying external and internal factors which may support or oppose the
objectives. The analysis also aids assessing future steps of planning to achieve primary objectives.
The SWOT analysis for ZabDesk is as follows:-

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Strengths:-
The platform possesses numerous resources and capabilities that can be utilize as source of the
competitive advantage. Some of the strength are:-

The system has been incorporated for some time and is well accepted by the stakeholders.
Provides the manageable and centralized source of resource sharing for members of the
organization.
Works well for course management and delivery for formal education.

Weaknesses:-
Although the system has numerous strong points but it also lacks few capabilities as well.
Following are some weaknesses:-

The system is designed for Web 2.0 and does not support current graphic rich content
supported by Web 3.0 such as photos and videos.
Portal does not entail communication for students and faculty members whereas it has been
supported in portals in many foreign universities.

Opportunities:-
The external environmental scanning can help identify the opportunities for growth and profit.
Below are some opportunities to be exploited from the environment:-

The portal can be extended and enhanced to support e-learning which can be used to cater
additional students who cannot attend traditional classroom environment.
Access can also be given to suppliers to automate the traditional procurement function of
the organization. This will reduce the cost of procurement function.

Threats:-
There may also exist some factors that can act as threats to the environment such as:-

Technology may change and complete overhauling of system may require.

Data can be altered and theft due to hacking.

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Future Development of Software:

Presently the system provides partial solution to the financial processes. However, it has been part
of plans to fully automate the financial process of the organization. Moreover, Human Resource
department has been completely neglected while implementation of the system which will be
incorporated in next phase of the development.

Recommendations:
Despite the implementation of ZabDesk there are various processes which are manual and students
have to visit different departments. Students are supposed to submit their paid fee voucher as
evidence of fee payment to Finance department so that they are allowed to be registered their
courses. This is not very effective measure and this system should be automated so that students
can attach their fee voucher on the portal itself.

Likewise, students requires many kinds of form for various purposes such as Tax Forms,
Scholarships Forms, and Clearance Forms etc. that are available at reception of 90 and 100 campus.
These forms should be available to be filled by the students on portal instead of manually filling
and submitting. It would not only save students time but will also provide them great convenience.

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Bibliography:

1. Abidi S.S., Nadeem M. Enterprise Relationship Management for Higher Education: An

Approach to Integrated System Management. Innovative Applications of Information
Technology for the Developing World: Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Applied Computing
Conference. 212-217, 2007

2. HEC Universities Ranking < www.hec.gov.pk/english/universities/pages/rank.aspx >

3. SZABIST Institute. (2016) Student Handbook 2016. Retrieved from

http://www.szabist.edu.pk/Publications/Student%20Hand%20book-30-Aug-2016.pdf

4. ZabSolution Products of SZABIST < http://www.zabsolutions.com/products.html >

5. ZabDesk About < https://zabdesk.szabist.edu.pk/About.asp >

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Appendices
Appendix A: Plagiarism Report

Turnitin Originality Report

MIS_FInal_-_1439124.docx by Anonymous

From Summer2017 (Summer2017)

Processed on 29-Jul-2017 18:05 PKT

ID: 833859363
Word Count: 2048

Similarity Index

5%

Similarity by Source

Internet Sources:

3%

Publications:

2%

Student Papers:

3%

sources:

2% match (Internet from 09-Mar-2010)

http://www.zabsolutions.com/Products.html

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1% match (student papers from 24-May-2017)

Submitted to Info Myanmar College on 2017-05-24

1% match (student papers from 16-May-2017)

Submitted to Higher Education Commission Pakistan on 2017-05-16

1% match (publications)

Patnaik, Lalit Mohan, Asoke K Talukder, Deepak Bhattarai, Sudan Jha, Hirendra Man Pradhan, and
Sitharama Iyengar. "ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION "AN
APPROACH TO INTEGRATED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT"", Innovative Applications of Information
Technology for the Developing World, 2007.

paper text:

Executive Summary: This report reflects the apprehension and working technological unifying software
for the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) that has been formed
with objective of inculcating the quality education in students among deprived areas of Pakistan as
reflected by its vision and mission statement. In order to achieve the primary objective the institute
needs to be equipped with technological platform to integrate the resource sharing needs among
stakeholders. ZabDesk is the solution which basically developed on C sharp programming language and
integration is done using ERP system at the back-end to maintain sharing of the organizational
resources. The software has certain hardware and software requirements which are mandatory for it
perform as per the need to develop the software. The report finds the internal and external factors
affecting the platform using SWOT analysis. The analysis help us identified the strong points and the
weaknesses from internal perspective as well as opportunities and threats from external environment.
The organization is aware of the prevailing problems with this platform and has plans to cater them in
future. The software does not provide complete financial automation and lacks human resource

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function from the system. Recommendations discussed includes: Lack of integration between partner
financial institutes (banks) and organization and students bear suffering. Non-availability of forms on
the portal which are necessary for students. The report presented has some limitations as there are time
and access constraints are present. The system has various modules, however, we have consider only
Faculty and Students module. So the reports generated by system are pertinent to only the two
functional areas under discussion. Introduction of Organization: Shaheed Zulfiqar 3Ali Bhutto Institute of
Science and Technology (SZABIST) is a fully chartered institute which is approved by Higher Education
Commission (HEC) of Pakistan as degree rewarding institute and is ranked as highest W ranking by HEC
whereas it has been ranked as 6th university in Business category of recent HEC rankings. SZABIST has
been ranked as one of finest institute by leading international magazines such as BusinessWeek and Asia
Inc. It also affiliation with various national and international bodies. The vision and mission statement
guides the goals and future endeavor of the organization as: The Vision: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Institute of Science and Technology shall be a world class institute recognized globally for its excellence
in education, scholarship in research and distinction in service. The Mission: The institute has been
established with the objectives of producing highly qualified, scientific and technical personnel to meet
the country's requirements of: ? Conducting state-of-the-art scientific and technological research and
development in support of the private and public sector; ? Providing hi-tech scientific and technological
assistance to the Pakistan industry to enable it to compete with the world industries in global trading; ?
Providing highly trained scientific and technological personnel to be able to attract the growth of high-
tech industries and foreign and Pakistani investment; ? Providing a sound socio-economic and scientific
base and infrastructure to Pakistan to be able to meet the economic and technological challenges of the
21st century. Guidelines and Policies: The institute has several policies enforced to ensure that quality
education is imparted to the students. The policies are aligned in line with international standards in
terms of admissions, educational level, attendance, examinations and grading. SZABIST has also focus on
producing quality research papers, dissertation, and thesis and research projects. The plagiarism level is
checked using Turnitin software which is adopted as standard worldwide. Campuses and Disciplines:
There are five campuses of the institute located in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Islamabad, and Dubai
(U.A.E.). These campuses offer multiple programs in various disciplines. SZABIST is offering programs in
Management Sciences, Media Sciences, Social Sciences, Computer Science, Mechatronic Engineering
and Biosciences. Need for Software: The primary purpose of creating ZabDesk is to automate the
business processes at the university. It is providing platform to employees, faculty and students. The
employees have access to centralized resources and can coordinate with their peers, supervisors using

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the software. The system provides platform to various departments within the organization. Students
and Faculty uses the software for academic purposes. Unlike practices in the past where students have
to register courses, check attendance and view their results manually, now they can do all these
activities online using ZabDesk. Similarly, faculty members also have to perform their routine tasks
manually which is quite cumbersome. The facilitators/teachers can now update students attendance
and marks online. Therefore implementation of ZabDesk has automate the processes within the
organization. The need is to manage the complex relationship with its clients is of utmost importance for
any higher education institute. The absence of such platform would not have only hinder the uniformity
of information and costly but absence of standards will tarnish the reputation and image of the
institution as services will be inconsistent and fragmented. Therefore, the necessity of having such
unifying platform is mandatory for institute to serve and monitor their clients so they can make stronger
bonds with them. Hardware and Software Requirements of Software: The implementation of the
ZabDesk has to meet some software and hardware requirements. Software Requirements: C sharp
programming language is needed to develop and maintain the virtual interfaces and ERP system is used
for backend integration of the users to the centralized database. Internet browser is also required to
access the portal such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome etc. Hardware
Requirements: In order to implement the software and associated database, the servers for Operating
System (OS) is Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2012 is used. These servers has some hardware
requirements which are as follows: Criteria Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2012 2CPU 2 GHz or
Faster Minimum 1 GHz RAM 2 GB or greater22 GB or greater Storage Requirement (HDD) Foundation:
10 GB or greater Other editions:32 GB or greater Minimum 6 GB Other hardware requirements are LCD,
LAN/Wi-Fi cards, and peripherals like mouse and keyboard. Introduction of Software: Any academic
institute requires solution to automate their functions and processes. 1ZabDesk is a modular, client-
server based system which covers most academic management tasks. It has been designed to meet the
requirement of 1automation of business processes at any academic institute, automating the
administrative, financial and processes to facilitate every individual and process involved. The software
currently caters the academic discipline completely and financial department partially. The design of
application requires thorough analysis of the system requirement for current and future requirement of
the organization. The virtual interfaces of the application is developed using C-Sharp programming
language by the students of Computer Science (CS) department of the institute. The design includes
back-end integration using educational Enterprise Relationship Management () which is
basically 4database engineering and communication system meant for the organization and provides

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access information to one central location. 4is integrated with back end ERP system for data redundancy
and to ensure updated data is available to all members across the organization. The data and
information is available for academia (faculty and students), administration, finance, records and
registration and library activities. Function and Reports: As mentioned earlier that the main reason to
deploy ZabDesk software solution is to automate various process within the environment of SZABIST.
Like any Management Information system, ZabDesk also generates reports based on the input. The
functions and reports under our selected section are as follows:- Functions: The key function this system
has done is to provide the unified platform to faculty, students and staff of the university. The system
will ensure the availability of organizational resources by having single database to members based on
their domain and role within the organization. This system implementation will result in uniformity of
decision making and avoidance of duplication which is prone to occur in the manual system within an
organization. The platform also serve as great tool for course delivery and management as it facilitates
students and the faculty. Reports: The modules we consider are Students and Faculty. The reports which
ZabDesk generates within these modules are attendance, results of the students, and students
feedback. The faculty enter the attendance which can either be Present, Absent, Late or Excuse. The
university has policy of maximum three absent allowed in a certain course and system is linked with SMS
system. So in case of two absents a caution, for three absence a final warning and on fourth course
removal text message has been sent to the student. The faculty do not have to calculate individual
grades. The teachers simply enter marks student obtained in each head mentioned in their respective
course. The system will calculate course-wise, semester-wise and overall CGPA of the student.
Moreover, there is option available to students where they can enter feedback of the facilitator and
upon the feedback a consolidated report is send to the concern faculty members so they can take note
of the improvement in different aspects of the teaching expected by them. SWOT Analysis of Software:
SWOT matrix or analysis is an acronym used for identifying Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and
Threats of an organization, product, project, industry or a business venture. This analysis approach is
beneficial in specifying external and internal factors which may support or oppose the objectives. The
analysis also aids assessing future steps of planning to achieve primary objectives. The SWOT analysis for
ZabDesk is as follows:- Strengths:- The platform possesses numerous resources and capabilities that can
be utilize as source of the competitive advantage. Some of the strength are:- ? The system has been
incorporated for some time and is well accepted by the stakeholders. ? Provides the manageable and
centralized source of resource sharing for members of the organization. ? Works well for course
management and delivery for formal education. Weaknesses:- Although the system has numerous

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strong points but it also lacks few capabilities as well. Following are some weaknesses:- ? The system is
designed for Web 2.0 and does not support current graphic rich content supported by Web 3.0 such as
photos and videos. ? Portal does not entail communication for students and faculty members whereas it
has been supported in portals in many foreign universities. Opportunities:- The external environmental
scanning can help identify the opportunities for growth and profit. Below are some opportunities to be
exploited from the environment:- ? The portal can be extended and enhanced to support e-learning
which can be used to cater additional students who cannot attend traditional classroom environment. ?
Access can also be given to suppliers to automate the traditional procurement function of the
organization. This will reduce the cost of procurement function. Threats:- There may also exist some
factors that can act as threats to the environment such as:- ? Technology may change and complete
overhauling of system may require. ? Data can be altered and theft due to hacking. Future Development
of Software: Presently the system provides partial solution to the financial processes. However, it has
been part of plans to fully automate the financial process of the organization. Moreover, Human
Resource department has been completely neglected while implementation of the system which will be
incorporated in next phase of the development. Recommendations: Despite the implementation of
ZabDesk there are various processes which are manual and students have to visit different departments.
Students are supposed to submit their paid fee voucher as evidence of fee payment to Finance
department so that they are allowed to be registered their courses. This is not very effective measure
and this system should be automated so that students can attach their fee voucher on the portal itself.
Likewise, students requires many kinds of form for various purposes such as Tax Forms, Scholarships
Forms, and Clearance Forms etc. that are available at reception of 90 and 100 campus. These forms
should be available to be filled by the students on portal instead of manually filling and submitting. It
would not only save students time but will also provide them great convenience. Bibliography: 1. Abidi
S.S., Nadeem M. Enterprise Relationship Management for Higher Education: An Approach to Integrated
System Management. Innovative Applications of Information Technology for the Developing World:
Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Applied Computing Conference. 212-217, 2007 2. HEC Universities
Ranking < www.hec.gov.pk/english/universities/pages/rank.aspx > 3. SZABIST Institute. (2016) Student
Handbook 2016. Retrieved from http://www.szabist.edu.pk/Publications/Student Hand book-30-Aug-20
16.pdf 4. ZabSolution Products of SZABIST < http://www.zabsolutions.com/products.html > 5. ZabDesk
About < https://zabdesk.szabist.edu.pk/About.asp >

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Appendix B: Evidence of Reference

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