October 8,

PROJECT PROPOSAL
2012

Payroll Engine

Abstract:

There are a lot of payroll engines that do exist in the market serving different organizations
under different circumstances. But the problem with those payroll engines that comes to our
observation is that most of them are static or required changes in their programming when an
organizational structure changes. And for these changes there required a professional programmer to
make these changes according to the demands of company.

So what we are aiming to develop is such a comprehensive payroll engine that is

 Fully Customizable
 Platform independent
 User friendly interfaces
Fully customizable means that a simple computer operator can easily manages the
changes that are happening in the particular organization by using user friendly
interfaces.
Platform independent defines a term that our software did not be based on any
particular platform (e. g mySQL , Oracle), but it can be interact with any of the
database system installed in any organization. So this feature didn’t binds the client to
use a particular database technology.

Introduction:

A lot of organizations now a days are moving towards the software’s to assist their workers and
also to reduce their manpower. Almost every organization either small or large do have some
employees and have to pay them on time. So to generate the payroll slips of their workers and manage
them accordingly is a time consuming task which almost every organization wants to reduce as much as
possible. So we are trying to develop such a reliable payroll engine which generates the payroll slips of
employees efficiently and quickly.

Background:

Currently there are a lot of payroll software’s that exist in the market and running in different
organizations. Many software development companies have develop the payroll software’s for different
organizations. Some of them also developed generic payroll software’s or web based payroll software’s.

E.g. PAYROLL MATE is a generic payroll software and TIMETRAX is a web based payroll generator.
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So this shows that there is a lot work done in the field of payroll software development. But why we
choose this project as our final year project is because of following two reasons.

 Almost every payroll software is developed for particular organization and worked efficiently
under specific circumstances. But when the conditions or specifications of an organization
changes, then these software’s become inefficient , or require changes in their code by
professional developers. So we are looking forward to develop such a software which is fully
customizable by user friendly interfaces. So that changes can easily be implemented to them by
not going through the coding.

 Secondly ,almost every payroll engine is technology dependent i.e. either it is for mySQL, Oracle
e.t.c. So if an organization wants change their database technology then their payroll engine
also needs to be change. So our focus is to develop a Platform independent software.

Project aim and objectives:

The aim of our project is to develop a comprehensive platform independent payroll engine.

This can be achieved by fulfilling the following objectives.

1. User friendly administrative interfaces

2. Full customization of software
3. Platform independency
4. Efficient coding
5. Interactive Outlook of software

Intellectual challenge:

Platform independency is one main reason of doing this as a final year project. Because we
didn’t saw any payroll engine which is platform independent so this is actually a type of innovation in
this field. So this project is also a research project as well because we are going to implement a new
idea to this field. And the end of this project we are able to gain immense knowledge of most of
database technologies e.g. mySQL, Oracle e.t.c.

Research Programme:

We have divided our project to different phases in order to successfully complete the project
within the allocated time. Following is the description of different phases.

 Research phase

In this phase we planned to visit almost 6-7 companies who have implemented the
payroll software’s so that we have a good understanding about how payroll works, what are the
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limitations they are facing, what are different criteria’s in every organization so that we can
customized are project as much as possible.

 Design Phase
 Implementation Phase
 Debugging Phase

Gant chart/Timeline:

Project deliverables:

At the end of this project we are able to deliver a payroll software which is

 Fully Customizable
 Platform Independent
 User friendly

Resources required for the project:

For the development of our software , following programming language we are going to
use

 Java

Why java:

Java is an open source powerfull programming language which have excellent resources
to assist us in this project.