A Novel Framework for Student Result Computation as a Cloud Computing Service

Orobor Anderson Ise^1,

¹Information and Communication Technology Unit, Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria

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Orobor Anderson Ise. A Novel Framework for Student Result Computation as a Cloud Computing Service. American Journal of Systems and Software. 2015; 3(1):13-19. doi: 10.12691/ajss-3-1-2

Abstract

The enormous effect of wrongly computed student results in student academic career and the university as a whole demands that the task be perform meticulously using automated system. Student result computation literatures show that most universities in Nigeria still engage manual processing despite the proliferation of vendor results computation systems. Slow adoption of technology and innovation can be traceable to some factors such as, high cost of acquisition/licenses, maintenance, support, new infrastructures involved and security treats. This paper therefore, adopt cloud computing model in its proposed student result computation system design, thereby eliminating the above factors mentioned. The proposed system enable universities use student result computation service just like using an email service without taken cognizance of its IT infrastructure cost and complexity.

Keywords:
student result computation cloud computing result service Nigeria university

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