Information Systems GCSE Coursework Database Project
Identify
Problem-The Scenario: A dating agency situated at: 105 Bond street London WC1.
The Love Connection dating agency functions to bring two individuals with common interests, values and aspirations together to form a relationship. A client phones or writes or emails or faxes to obtain a questionnaire form, this form is sent to the client. The form is completed by the client and sent back to the agency. Once the form is received, the information is taken from the form and placed in various card files, which are arranged in sections of: Personal details, features, occupation, hobbies and interests.
Currently the company are experiencing the following problems:
- The company is very short staffed and it takes them a long time to match clients up.
- The love Connection Administrators go through all the different files one by one this process is very long and painstaking.
- The clients mistakenly sometimes get the wrong match because the facts get mixed up, I.e.: wrong hobbies, wrong features and interests.
- The clients mistakenly get matched up with the same gender.
- Staffs are over worked and are forced to do overtime, this in effect imposes extra costs on the Company.
Reasons for using ICT:
Most of the time the amount of information stored in the card files takes a very long time to search through. Holding the information on a database would enable the administrators to search for information very quickly and easily.
- With the current system it takes the administrators a long time to match up the clients. But with a computerised database it will enable data to be retrieved very quickly and the Love math to be more efficient.
