Design and Implementation of Cost Effective MIS for Universities
Sastry Mks · 2006
Design, development and implementation of a three layer cost effective Management Information System (MIS) for typical university environment are presented. Several aspects which are specific for any typical university environment like - nature of diversified data items, continuous growth of data, different categories of users, demand for access, user expectations and huge quantities of information etc are considered for the design and development process. The approach suggested in this paper combines the strengths of a commercial database product and open license technologies. The need for using a standard and commercial database product is emphasized. Two client applications are developed using two different data abstraction technologies which work independently on the common database backbone. The developed model of MIS is tested using the data of a joint degree program offered by two different universities and the sample results are presented.