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January 1998
ACADEMIC COMPUTING HIGHLIGHTS |
- IT Initiative Funding to be used for Direct Faculty Support.
- An enhanced "Web Course in a Box" Service will be deployed on a test basis during Winter Quarter '98.
- As a side benefit of this service, C&C will offer faculty "stand alone" class listserves (again, updated automatically based on input from the SIS+ System).
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COMMUNICATIONS HIGHLIGHTS |
- UCR'S Core Network to be Upgraded. Please click here for an overview of the core network upgrade.
- Communications Reorganization Complete.
- Residence Halls Connectivity Plan to go out for bid.
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COMPUTING SUPPORT SERVICES HIGHLIGHTS |
- Reorganization of Computing Support Services is Now Complete.
- Three units now make up Computing Support Services (Help Desk, Academic Computing Services, and Microcomputer Support Group) and several job searches are underway.
- SCOTMAIL, UCR's Central Listserve System, is Up and Operational.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING HIGHLIGHTS |
- Current SIS Applications Available Via the Web Include Enrollment, Grades, Course Confirmations, Address Changes, Parking Permit Requests, and Pin Changes.
- Major Edify Upgrade Planned; new SIS Web Applications Planned.
- Web Access to SIS Popular and Growing.
- PPS Activity.
- Other IC projects - IBM/Web activity.
- Miscellaneous - All COM-PLETE systems have now been replaced by CICS systems.
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CLIENT SERVER HIGHLIGHTS |
- Development of UCR's new Automated Travel Management System is well underway. The new system will use Microsoft's Active Server technology.
- Click here for a complete overview of Active Server Page and Active Server Document technology (as utilized at the University of California, Riverside).
- Click here for an overview of UCR's new ATMS system.
- Click here to see the ATMS demo web page.
- PeopleSoft's Budgetary Infrastructure is almost ready and development of the Transfer of Fund application will begin shortly. Also, there has been a change in the PeopleSoft deployment strategy, emphasizing a "point in time" cutover, scheduled for sometime in FY 98/99.
- Development of UCR Employee Info Base to begin shortly.
- Contract for new Oracle based Physical Plant CMMS system to be awarded in January, 1998.
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MEDIA RESOURCES HIGHLIGHTS |
- Notes on Classroom Wiring.
- Salary Savings to be used for Short Term Projects.
- Five Year Planning Process complete.
- Satisfaction Survey demonstrated Customer Satisfaction.
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OTHER NOTES |
- New CFO recently hired and on-board effective 1/5/98.
- C&C Production Statistics Now Available. Click here for Production Metrics Web Page.
- Paper and Forms savings at UCR during the past several years. Click here to see and overview of these savings.
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