BOOKING SERVICE DESIGNS FOR LIEKE PLATFORM
Ge, Junnan (2014)
Ge, Junnan
Centria ammattikorkeakoulu (Keski-Pohjanmaan ammattikorkeakoulu)
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014061512944
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014061512944
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This thesis work was commissioned by a company called Newave Designs Oy (Ltd). Newave Designs Oy is a software company founded in 2004 and currently located in Kokkola, Finland. Their main focus is on their LIEKE platform and browser-based software built on it.
The work was about software designs for a booking system that can be used to offer and reserve timeslots in the LIEKE platform that Newave Designs Oy is building. The goal of this project was to build a time-based service in LIEKE platform for small business companies in Finland. The design part was conducted as this thesis work, and Newave Design Oy will do the implementation work.
During the writing of this thesis, the technical requirements were mentioned. Those requirements were the knowledge to understand LIEKE platform as well as software designs. LIEKE is a platform and content management system (CMS) for building dynamic websites and applications offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, translation tools, content publishing and online shopping among others. The technical terms, such as LAMP, CodeIgneiter, HMVC, Smarty, responsive design, and UML were explained. The designs of the project were done with different design tools. For visualizing the design of the system, UML was used as beginning designs. Use case and class diagram were the designs for helping implementing the software. Database designs used Microsoft Visio, and all the data will be saved in MySQL database management system. For the layout designs, the online free software called mockingbird was used.
A satisfied feedback from Newave and the customers of Newave was received about the design. According to those requirements of the customer and the software designs, the software was created in the LIEKE platform. The software is fully functional as specified and it met the usability for the LIEKE customer. Newave is expected to create a great booking application for mobile devices soon.
The work was about software designs for a booking system that can be used to offer and reserve timeslots in the LIEKE platform that Newave Designs Oy is building. The goal of this project was to build a time-based service in LIEKE platform for small business companies in Finland. The design part was conducted as this thesis work, and Newave Design Oy will do the implementation work.
During the writing of this thesis, the technical requirements were mentioned. Those requirements were the knowledge to understand LIEKE platform as well as software designs. LIEKE is a platform and content management system (CMS) for building dynamic websites and applications offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, translation tools, content publishing and online shopping among others. The technical terms, such as LAMP, CodeIgneiter, HMVC, Smarty, responsive design, and UML were explained. The designs of the project were done with different design tools. For visualizing the design of the system, UML was used as beginning designs. Use case and class diagram were the designs for helping implementing the software. Database designs used Microsoft Visio, and all the data will be saved in MySQL database management system. For the layout designs, the online free software called mockingbird was used.
A satisfied feedback from Newave and the customers of Newave was received about the design. According to those requirements of the customer and the software designs, the software was created in the LIEKE platform. The software is fully functional as specified and it met the usability for the LIEKE customer. Newave is expected to create a great booking application for mobile devices soon.