Higher Education Institutions Working with Oracle in Developing Student Information System
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RESTON, Va., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. today announced that
it intends to work with six prestigious colleges and universities to develop the
Oracle(R) Student System, Oracle's student information solution for the North
American higher education market. The schools plan to participate in the
development of specifications to guide the evolution of the Callista student
information system, recently licensed by Oracle from Australia's Deakin
University, for the North American higher education market.
The partner institutions are George Mason University, Santa Barbara City
College, Skidmore College, State University of New York at Binghamton,
Tulane University, and several institutions from the University System of
Maryland. These institutions represent the full spectrum of higher education, from
community colleges to public and private four-year institutions.
"Our goal is a student system that works to maximum benefit with our Oracle
business applications," said Albert A. Dekin, Jr., Binghamton's executive
director of the Pegasus Project. "The power of sharing the same databases and
applications for the student system is an attractive solution to make us more
responsive to our students, faculty and staff; more efficient in our administration;
and more effective in attracting top-flight students in a highly competitive
environment."
The general release of the Oracle Student System for the North American
market is scheduled for fall of 2000, with many of the major modules to be
available in advance of the general release. The Oracle Student System will
encompass the full spectrum of higher education student system functionality,
including registration, admissions and records, financial aid, and student tuition
and fee payment management. Beyond back office proficiency, the Oracle
Student System will establish a new level of student, faculty and staff self-service
capability, and allow for unparalleled flexibility in academic calendars and overall
system configuration.
The new Oracle Student System will complete the most comprehensive
enterprise solution available to higher education institutions worldwide.
Combined with Oracle Financial, Human Resource, Grants Management
Learning Applications, Oracle's web-based enterprise solution provides a new
level of system capability, flexibility and integration across the entire higher
education enterprise.
"Inclusion of these outstanding institutions in the development process is
expected to assure our new student system will have the breadth of functionality
to meet the needs of all segments of the higher education market," said Carl N.
Kelly, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle's Higher Education
Division. "The slated combination of this superb group of institutions, a
well-designed development plan, and the ability to start this project with the
majority of the needed functionality for this market is designed to provide timely
delivery of a robust, flexible student system to complete our enterprise solution."
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information
management, and the world's second largest independent software company.
With annual revenues of over $8.3 billion, the company offers its database, tools
and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support
services, in more than 145 countries around the world.
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