Decision support system of staff member promotion based on cloud computing (Case Study University Of Benghazi)

The scientific council at Benghazi University suffered from issues related to the scientific promotion process for faculty members. Promotion is still done manually, without a computerized system. Therefore, it faces obstacles in obtaining basic information, issuing promotion decisions, making managerial procedures, lack of flexibility, and the accumulation of papers. There are also unclear biases in decision-making and mechanisms of evaluating promotion criteria. Thus, they need to keep up with the international universities in the promotion process to be successful in administrative business today. Benghazi University needs an information system that can support decision-making, which is a major problem often occurs in the process of promotion of faculty member.The use of decision support systems is a solution to reduce subjectivity in decision-making. This work presents an E-Gate that can assist in the promotion of educational staff. It is a system able to provide the best alternative in promotion educational staff. With the decision support system, the promotion process is carried out via the E-Gate using the AHP method according to several criteria. It is stored in the cloud computing because many enterprises are adopting the cloud-computing platform to examine the benefits of self-service, user guide, and high flexibility. The time is right for the educational universities to derive benefits of the cloud, as they are obliged to deliver better ubiquitous services. The study also developed Search Engine to verify the submitted research.