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Quarterly Status Report - Departmental Version
April - June, 1995
SPT continues to investigate CASE and application development tools. The SPT CASE committee meets regularly to participate in vendor presentations and provide guidance in the evaluation effort. Vendor products and presentations from Bachman, Cadre, CSA, Caseware, LBMS, Evergreen, LogicWorks, InterSolv, Popkin, Protosoft, and Sterling have been arranged, with others to follow. This activity also includes the investigation and review of application development methodologies, with a goal of acquiring and tailoring a methodology suite for use within ACT.
SPT has arranged and coordinated another developmental seminar on the Re-Engineering of the IS environment by DeBoever Architectures. This has resulted in substantial re-thinking of organizational plans in the development and deployment of information systems, data, and services. SPT has also coordinated an intensive review of the ACT short term strategy with DeBoever Architectures. This review concentrated on mitigating the mainframe loading problems during heavy processing periods.
Two Requests for Proposal (RFPs) have been active this quarter. SPT has coordinated the bid activity with purchasing and ACT project managers, the Bidders' conference, the development of the bid evaluation methodology, the formal bidders' questions, and the preparation for the bid evaluation. The evaluation of the RFP responses are in progress.
SPT is providing leadership, coordination, and training in the implementation and use of the World Wide Web within ACT. SPT is providing direction and leadership in the use of the Web as a generic client process for accessing data from central systems. This allows an easy path for deployment of data to students, staff, and faculty who have access to the Internet, without the usual problems associated with client application deployment and version control. This tool complements efforts within ACT to develop versatile browser processes for campus use.
SPT is working with consultants to evaluate Client/Server costing issues as they apply to the implementation of and migration to a Client/Server computing environment.
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