Functional Model for Web Services in Education Management
Ruchika Thukral, Anita Goel 
International Journal of Web Applications, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2014.
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Abstract:
Education system uses EMIS to collect data from education institutes, processes it and disseminates it to end users. In the existing system,data collection is a tedious task requiring special training and infrastructure. Data is disseminated in predefined reports and application to application transfer requires special application with complete compatibility of
computing systems, databases and database connectivity strings at both the ends. In this paper, we propose a functional model incorporating web service in all the three phases of education management i.e. data collection, processing and dissemination. We have used web service for direct data collection from districts to states and then central collection system.
Also for data dissemination, predefined reports are processed, which can be accessed directly by end userâ€™s application in addition to dynamic generation of reports. Use of web service in data collection and dissemination reduces overall time&
cost and facilitates application to application data collection and dissemination, thus, increasing the efficiency of EMIS.
The proposed functional modelis flexible and can be extended based on the userâ€™s need. We illustrate our functional model
with a case study applied to EMIS for schools.