Capacity report automation for capacity planning

Technology has been incorporated into many organisations for their day to day operations. Automation has become the main efficiency and cost saving initiative at this point of time. This study attempted to automate the Capacity Reporting process for DTE Sdn Bhd and produce a prototype of the automat...

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Main Author: Santhanasamy, Rebecca
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling my-utm-ep.919602021-08-09T08:46:32Z Capacity report automation for capacity planning 2017 Santhanasamy, Rebecca T58.5-58.64 Information technology Technology has been incorporated into many organisations for their day to day operations. Automation has become the main efficiency and cost saving initiative at this point of time. This study attempted to automate the Capacity Reporting process for DTE Sdn Bhd and produce a prototype of the automated report. The preliminary study found that employees were manually processing data using Excel, which took up a lot of time and was error prone. The prototype was designed to download data directly from multiple sources and then created as a report in the reporting platform. The prototype was developed by combining Waterfall and Prototyping Software Development Life Cycle methodologies. The prototype was then validated by comparing the data with the manual process. The automated process had less than 1% discrepancy and reduced the time taken to produce a report by more than half. The Capacity Reporting team reported that overall efficiency and accuracy improved after the implementation of the automated report. 2017 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91960/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91960/1/RebeccaSanthanasamyMRAZAK2017.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:131679 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
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Capacity report automation for capacity planning
description Technology has been incorporated into many organisations for their day to day operations. Automation has become the main efficiency and cost saving initiative at this point of time. This study attempted to automate the Capacity Reporting process for DTE Sdn Bhd and produce a prototype of the automated report. The preliminary study found that employees were manually processing data using Excel, which took up a lot of time and was error prone. The prototype was designed to download data directly from multiple sources and then created as a report in the reporting platform. The prototype was developed by combining Waterfall and Prototyping Software Development Life Cycle methodologies. The prototype was then validated by comparing the data with the manual process. The automated process had less than 1% discrepancy and reduced the time taken to produce a report by more than half. The Capacity Reporting team reported that overall efficiency and accuracy improved after the implementation of the automated report.
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author Santhanasamy, Rebecca
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title Capacity report automation for capacity planning
title_short Capacity report automation for capacity planning
title_full Capacity report automation for capacity planning
title_fullStr Capacity report automation for capacity planning
title_full_unstemmed Capacity report automation for capacity planning
title_sort capacity report automation for capacity planning
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
granting_department Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics
publishDate 2017
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91960/1/RebeccaSanthanasamyMRAZAK2017.pdf
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