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Paperless office system and data integration  

Albertus Dwiyoga Widiantoro 
Information System Department, Soegijapranata Catholic University 

Yoga@unika.ac.id 

 
Abstract—  
Paper-based correspondence has many 
constraints on sending, receiving, and 
filing. The filling makes it difficult to 
search document.  Electronic-based office 
mail is able to solve many problems 
regarding the mail system such as speed of 
delivery, filing, and searching of 
documents. By utilizing the database 
system, documents can be stored well and 
integrated. With electronic mail is 
expected to reduce paper usage. This 
study reveals that the utilization of 
electronic mail cannot eliminate the use of 
paper. The main reason is the habit of 
employees needed paper evidence in their 
work. 
Keywords electronic mail, paperless 
system, database, data integration. 

 I. INTRODUCTION  
Information technology is the integration 

of technology, information, computers, and 
information systems, and computer devices. 
Processes used for computers and devices to 
create, modify, store, process, transmit, and 
retrieve information securely.[1]. 

 
The terms of "paperless," "electronic," and 

"digital" are made by people who use 
information technology and communication 
technology. A paperless office in a work 
environment where the creation, 
modification, storage, and retrieval of 
documents takes place electronically. It 
supports the management of business 
documents[1]. See also an understanding of 
the Electronic Service Manuscript (TNDE) 
which is part of an e-Government that will 
roll out forms that can be used to manage 
more easily, quickly, transparently, orderly, 
integrated, efficient, safe and efficient. [2]. In 
the electronic understanding where the letter 

of service no longer use paper but the letter 
of service made, sent and stored using the 
information technology and communication 
in digital form. 

 
Electronic-based office mail is able to 

solve many problems regarding the mail 
system such as speed of delivery, filing, and 
searching of documents. 
 

• Reduce paper, paper converted into 
digital paper. Thereby reducing 
environmental pollution 

• Ease to store: with digital document 
management system, all documents 
can be stored and accessed easily 

• Ease of audit: Each company has strict 
document rules in storage and display 
of documents. The document has a 
unique number that generates an audit 
trail automatically. 

 
Time savings document search is done 

quickly and easily and gives very fast results. 
 Make it simple: digital document 

management system will simplify some 
business processes. Users can use the 
authorities and transfer data when and 
wherever. Digital traces can be seen clearly. 

Ease of accessing documents can be 
arranged in accordance with the authority of 
the right and ability to check and view the 
same document. 

The digital document management system 
stores all documents on the server with 
guaranteed security. Documents can be 
authorized and not everyone can access the 
data, thus avoiding documents accessed by 
unauthorized persons. 

The digital management system can result 
in better and more accessible customer 
service. This will help in retrieving 
information in serving customers 



 

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Improve efficiency where digital 
management system will be easy in search 
and retrieval of documents easily and simple. 

The system has been created for the 
purpose of: reduction of paper usage 
Streamlining Communication; Eliminates the 
use of versatile software for routine 
mechanistic daily work to be directed at the 
full system usage; Concentrate the 
assignment of human resources to 
mechanistic non-routine work that requires 
the power of inventiveness, taste; 
Suppressing the use of paper only to print 
documents that have special legal powers 
such as certificates, promissory notices and 
so on. 

 
 

II. LITERATURE REVIEW 

 
Communication and mobile technologies 

have influenced consumers' lives, including 
how they read books. Book readers begin to 
change reading habits, choosing different 
types of book formats, such as e-books. An 
e-book, also known as an electronic or 
digital book, is a digitally released version of 
the book, often consisting of text and images 
and available on electronic devices, such as 
specially designed e-book readers. 

 
Paperless is also used in education where 

communication used e-learning where the 
use of "paperless" educational technology 
increases the potential of teachers by 
offering more freedom and creativity to new 
teaching techniques and technologies that 
engage students in the creative process[3]. 

 
The Chambers Thesaurus proposes 

alternative words to paper as certificates, 
documents, files, gazettes, journals, 
newspapers, letters, notes, manuscripts, 
theses, etc. This term all refers to products 
containing information. 

Paper documents refer to typeset 
documents (hard copy) and digital 
documents refer to the document on the 

screen (soft copy). Although the document 
may be in the form of various combinations 
of text, digital, video and digital audio stored 
in the form of file files or folders[4]. 

Document management automatically 
creates a paperless working environment. 
Focusing on business processes and 
automation forces organizations to be 
customer-oriented and operate across 
organizational, cross-functional boundaries, 
ensuring competitive advantage. 

Real business integration remains a key 
challenge that needs to be addressed by 
integrating applications (documents, papers, 
voice and database, handling email, fax and 
phone). The role of corporate information 
portal, in this case, should be a growing 
research[4]. 

 
Using web-based technology for the 

dissemination of course materials and for the 
storage of test results provides many benefits 
to instructors and students. Web-based 
software for users has many benefits such as 
24-hour accessibility from any internet 
connection, electronic archive, paper stack 
removal, and reduced tasks[5]. 

 
Information and communication 

technology brings to the needs of fast and 
accurate transactions (online and real-time). 
By using internet technology, data can be 
sent in seconds, so the paper is no longer 
needed. Evan Golub says that web 
technology has replaced paper, so the paper 
is no longer needed anymore.[6] 

 
Electronic office letter is a web-based 

application system that works to replace the 
work process of the system of physical 
correspondence (manual). This system works 
integrated with the smallest unit to the 
highest leadership. (bureaus, institutions, 
majors, faculty, and rectorate). 

 
The system will work following a well-

built manual workflow. Letters that have 
been made and approved by the boss will be 
automatically sent to the destination, from 



 

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the recipient side of the letter will be read in 
seconds after the letter was sent. This 
process will reduce send errors, and delivery 
time is very significant, and no less 
important is to reduce the employees in 
charge of sending mail. Service letters are 
specially designed such as letters in order to 
format and shape the same as paper mails 

 

 III. METHODOLOGY  
 
Web-based e-mail design uses two stages 

of web-based application development and 
application usage survey. 

1. SDLC (software development life 
cycle) software development method 
consist of System investigation, 
System analysis, Design Environments, 
Testing, Training, and transition, 
Operations and maintenance[7]. 

2. Evaluation: Spreading questionnaires 
to test the capabilities of built 
applications and user satisfaction. 
Questionnaires were deployed to view 
the satisfaction of electronic mail usage 
and receive input for system 
perfection. 

3. Analysis: by spreading the question 
form to the user. There are 15 
questions that can help infer the 
usefulness of the mail system. 

a. the paperless office helpful in 
making letters (digitizing 
letters) 

b. the paperless office helps to 
searching for data 

c. the paperless in the office make 
us do not print a letter (paper 
form) 

d. the paperless office makes you 
faster reporting 

e. the paperless office have Backup 
function on the application 

f. the paperless office is an Easy 
Feature / short-key to 
remember and understand 

g. the paperless office is the system 
quickly responds to inputs 

h. the paperless office system are 
easy to learn  

i. the application is very accurate in 
providing reports 

j. the paperless office system the 
system provides information 
when there is an error  

k. paperless office system provides 
a help menu  

l. the papaerless office system are 
still relevant 

m. the system makes it easy to 
complete the job 

n. there is a complete manual 
documentation  

o. easy to learn documentation 
 
4. Conclusions 
 
 

 IV. DISCUSSION  

Identify actor 
1. The primary business actor is a 

Stakeholder taken in most benefited 
from the implementation of use-case. 
They received benefit in cases that 
their mail system can run well so that 
their business processes can run 
smoothly. 

2. Primary system actor: Stakeholders 
that interact directly with the system to 
trigger business or system events 
(business or system events) in this 
case are administrative staff and 
related leaders. 

3. External server actor: is a Stakeholder 
that responds to requests from use-
case. Head Unit authorizing letter can 
be sent or not 

4. External receiver actor: is a 
Stakeholder which is not a primary 
actor but receives something of value 
from use-case. A Staff and Lecturer 
receiving the letter. 
 

 
 
Data Flow diagram 



 

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The Flow diagram Figure 4.1 is the proses 

making a letter until received. Letters that 
have been made by staff must be approved 
by the head of the unit, if approved then the 
letter is automatically sent. In this process 
has some activity that is scheduling and 
disposition letter. 

 

 
Figure 4.1. Data flow diagram 

 
Use case diagram 

In the use case Figure 4.2, the actor is the 
staff and the unit leader. The tasks of each 
actor are different and are included in the 
existing use case. However, before they can 
perform the task there is an include that 
requires them to log into the system. 

 

 
 

Figure 4.2. Use case diagram 
 
 

Database design 
The database on Figure 4.3 is reviewed 

using the normalization method up to 3NF so 

it can eliminate redundant (useless), anomaly 
data and ensure logical data dependency. 

 

 
 

Figure 4.3. Data design incoming mail  
 
Figure 4.4 indicates the outgoing mail table 
relation. each table should be related to each 
other's primary key. 
 

 
 

Figure 4.4. Data design outgoing mail  
 
Implementation of Input Design 
User login 
Figure 4.5 view of user login, everyone 

who will access paperless system must 
authenticate users and passwords in order to 
avoid data manipulation. Sync user can use 
ID and also by using an institutional email 
address. 

 

 
Figure 4.5. login form 



 

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Front view 
The front view after login is designed to 

display all mail information in both 
incoming mail, outgoing mail, or disposition. 
If there is a change that is incoming, 
outgoing or disposition letter will appear red 
status. Users will automatically see and 
perform as soon as possible. So there is no 
delay in activities, as shown in Figure 4.6. 

 

 
Figure 4.6. form information incoming and 

outgoing letter 
 
 

The view creates a letter 
At the time of making a letter, the user 

simply selects the destination, the letter 
number, the origin of the letter using 
pulldown so as to avoid writing errors. Only 
the contents of the letter should be typed in 
accordance with the needs, as shown in 
Figure 4.7. 

 

 
 

Figure 4.7. login form create letter 
 

Incoming mail view 
The incoming and outgoing messages 

display all the information from the mail, so 
the user can easily see and open and the 
button used to display the content simply use 
on click, as shown in Figure 4.8 

 
 
Figure 4.8. display incoming and outgoing 

letter 
 

Data analysis 
 
From the data processing obtained 3 Group 

where group 1 which has an average value  
3.5. The value is considered a good enough 
value. Group 2 is a moderate group between 
3.0 and 3.5. While group 3 with low value 
that is less than 3.0, as shown in Figure 4.9 

 
 
 

 
 

Tabel 4.9. Data group 
 
In group 2 has an average value above 3.5. 

The system is very helpful in making letters 
(digitizing letters), respondents provide an 
average grade of 4.26. In search of 
respondent data facilitated by the system 
with average value 3.7. 



 

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With the e-mail, the process of making 
reports faster because with the letter 
response quickly and making reports 
immediately done. at the system level, 
respondents see that the system response is 
very fast that the data load is very short and 
the data storage process is very fast because 
it is supported by an adequate server. 

Respondents stated that studying online 
letters is quite easy and enough to see well-
organized forms so that new users have no 
trouble using them. The help menu helps 
respondents in understanding the letter 
system to make it easier to understand the 
application. 

 Respondents can complete the work of the 
correspondence easier and faster this is 
because there is ease of editing sentences and 
delivery with a very short period, and ease in 
making the letter again by looking at the 
pattern of the mail archive. 

In group 2 has an average value of 3 to 3.5. 
respondents still need ease of understanding 
of existing features, application backup and 
application accuracy in generating reports 
even though data inputted as outgoing mail, 
and received as incoming mail can be 
reported accurately and precisely, due to 
good database design support, no 
redundancy and not duplicate data. 

In group 3, electronic mail that has been 
made does not necessarily change the habit 
of printing a letter. Electronic mail should 
still be printed as valid proof. In the system, 
there are still weaknesses that have not 
provided an error message if something goes 
wrong or the process is not working 
properly. The system based on client-server 
is not easy to be changed according to the 
needs of each client. Changes must be 
centralized.  

Another weakness in this system is the 
word processing function is still not able to 
match word processing like Microsoft word 
that has many features. This system uses 
TinyMCE template which fundamentally this 
letter system has been able to solve the 
problem of digitalization of correspondence 
system. 

 V. CONCLUSIONS  
The paperless app has helped digitize the 
mail system well and all parts run the work 
using electronic mail. And the system runs 
stable. The paperless system has been able to 
solve the problem of late delivery and receipt 
of mail and letter can be searched quickly. 
Applications are able to simplify some 
business processes viewed from the fast and 
easy delivery process and digital archives 
can be seen clearly. 
The e-mail application stores all documents 
on the server with guaranteed security. 
Documents may be authorized according to 
their respective access rights. 
The electronic mail system has not been able 
to change the habit of printed letters, many 
still keep printing letters as physical 
evidence. 
The weakness of the electronic mail system 
is that it does not yet have a feature like in 
MS Word word processing, but overall it has 
been able to solve the problem of digitizing 
correspondence. 
 

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