Towards creation of unified computerized university management system: problems and solutions

1. Towards creation of unified computerized university management system: problems and solutions К созданию единой компьютеризованной системы университетского менеджмента: проблемы и решения V.V. Tryhuk Brest State University named after A.S. Pushkin, Brest, Belarus В.В. Тригук Бресткийгосударственный университет имени А.С. Пушкина, Брест, Беларусь

2. Current state: mixture of different software applications • Many departments had developed their own software suites to address their own tasks and needs • Problem 1: Most developments contain duplicate core data (staff and/or students info, syllabuses, etc). • Solution: a single, integrated, covering as many as possible aspects of university management system must be created

3. Single integrated university management system • Problem 2: ideal management system tends to be very complex • Extensive discussions involving staff members from different university divisions must be held to clarify project targets and goals

4. Implementation problems • Problem 3: employee turnover. Programmers often migrate to commercial companies that offer higher salaries. • Problem 4: lack of code documentation long asdf, qwert, bs121; // whatever… • As a result, unfinished projects are hard to finish, maintaining existing projects is a complicated task

5. Frameworks and libraries • Commercial

6. A possible solutionis open source model • Numerous large and successful projects prove the concept of free and open source • Unified university management system is a non-commercial project, being created by us and for us

7. Benefits of open source

8. A note on cloud computing

9. Conclusions