Web Service Based Data Dissemination Technique for Education System

Data dissemination includes data reporting in different formats and dissemination of reports. The data to be disseminated is reported in annual digests in both printed and electronic ways by the EMIS. The predefined reports are available for end users that can be downloaded in HTML or PDF format, which cannot be directly used in analytical applications for further analysis. Additionally, reports can also be downloaded in a format that can be used in analytical application for further analysis, but it requires skilled staff to segregate the desired data from the complete report. Our technique uses web services for data dissemination which provides two interfaces to disseminate data: ClickView interface and WebService interface. ClickView interface provides options to generate customized reports based on the attributes selected by the user along with the choice to view or download the report. Web service interface allows the application to application data transfer, regardless of the compatibility of the programming language and network at the both education system's and the end user's end. As a result, it does away with specially designed client application and connecting strings for database connectivity. We illustrate our web service based technique with a case study and findings to disseminate data for higher education system.