MICA Launches More Killer Administrative Applications

The past month has been a hectic one across the MICA enterprise. Check out the following realeases we made over the past two weeks alone.

Academic Analytics
On February 5, 2008, we successfuly launched the first phase of our Academic Analytics project at MICA. All senior staff were given access to our analytics environment. This first release is an implementation of Higher Ed Analytics by iStrategy Solutions. We have already started 2 projects within this project that will challenge us to extend the delivered functionality.

Housing Lottery Application
On February 18, 2008, current MICA students will apply for our housing lottery online (for the first time). This is the first piece of functionality delivered by Welcome Mat -- the residence management system currently being implemented at MICA.

    

Online Paychecks
Starting wih the first pay period in February, MICA employees can see their pay check data online (for the first time ever). This is delivered functionality from our Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 (with integrated HRMS) system served up securely to employees through our Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.0.

Competitive Scholarship
As a visual arts college, we regularly face technical challenges when it comes to acquiring, storing, cataloging, and viewing images and other media. MICA Superdevelopers Ben and Carolyn faced those challenges and built an environment in which students can upload their work (images and video), that work can then be cataloged with metadata from our student information system (Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0), and served back in a secure, branded environment.