Integrated Multi-Payroll and Billing System with HR Functions for BBC Allied and Personnel Services of Dumaguete City

Abstract

Duplication of jobs, redundant data, disintegrated or loosely coordinated file system, no inherent back-up system, disintegrated application on a manual-based manpower company that caters to medium (or even large) size of employees that is deployed to different clients/company is the focus of this work. The author had developed a system that corrects the aforementioned infirmities for a typical manpower provider company that uses a combination of manual and Office-automation software like Microsoft Excel. The developed system is an Integrated Multi-payroll and Billing System otherwise known as MAPABS (or Multi-Payroll and Billing System) that is a computer-based, automated, centralized, secured and data-driven system.

The author also used a combination of methodologies in software engineering and human-computer interaction, namely, the Waterfall Model and Agile Method. The former is plan-driven, predictive and disciplined yet inflexible and suitable for projects that have a large number of developers; while the latter is adaptive (rather than predictive) or flexible, user-centric, focus on working software as a measure of progress and good for project with small number of developers. The developer system (i.e., MAPABS) has faster transaction turn-around time, low operational overhead cost, robust, secure, centralized easier to use and database driven even with a minimum budget compared to their old manual-based system as earlier described.