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Advantages of an Integrated Academic- and Administrative-Information System Design
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| This year, the Campus Computing Survey lists academic/e-learning applications, user support, and administrative information systems as the IS profession's top three priorities. Most administrative software vendors have chosen to partner with a course-management provider to offer their clients a total solution. While this two-system solution represents a quick answer to the needs of faculty members, it also places additional user-support responsibility on an already over-burdened IS staff. The alternative is an integrated, academic-and-administrative systems design that takes advantage of the performance, reliability and scalability of mature database systems such as Microsof's SQL Server for the content-management functionality essential to any course-management application. In this presentation, ABT will share its experience using Microsoft's Active Server Pages, Interdev and XML development tools to architect the industry's first fully integrated academic and administrative application. |
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