Android Application to Enhance Performance of Internship Program Implementing Cloud Computing Platform and Infrastructure

Abstract

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to the shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services). It can be operated efficiently with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. The objective of this study was to improve performance of a mobile application by developing a new system to manage the internship program of senior students at the university level. This application runs on Android OS and using Cloud computing platform and infrastructure to replace the existing one that was using local or university database server and infrastructure. The result of this study created a new version of mobile application which is more agile, less cost and more productive than the existing one by implementing Cloud computing platform and infrastructure. Moreover, it can increase performance to monitor activities of each intern, provide online guidance from intern's advisors and finally it can summarize score of each intern according to the university rubric, all data above are handled and stored on Mobile Cloud Server.