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So, this last term was quite productive. I think the basics of documentation and procedures are some what cover and the habit of documenting is now officially institutionalized! We streamlined a lot of procedures, documented a whole lot more. We questioned everything and are now building more efficient procedures. Software and Development is now on [...]

Quite often we are asked why is cartero (our bulk email service) getting so saturated. A regular day will have more than 10 emails from cartero, in others we see over twenty. The problem here is that we are desensitizing our users and destroying the value of the service. I would like to briefly discuss [...]

RUMAD is a hot topic for us. The hardware is no longer under contract. Today we still do not have a ownership title. The latest attempt to solve this problem is a migration project from the Central Administration. Now while it seems it has the administration support it is clear that just the purchase of [...]

What are we playing with this semester, hmm! lets see… Lets try a Bullet point pitch for this semester’s agenda… 1. Financial Aid: 1.1. Very manual processing and time consuming. 1.2. Programs are quite fragile and vulnerable to changes in procedures and regulations. 1.3. Hosted on a mainframe era technology, OpenVMS/Alpha (RUMAD). Hardware no longer [...]

We have exam corrections and professors evaluations as a one of those odd services that we provide. We have an OpScan 8, a hardware scanner use to process OMR marks used in the forms or (hoja de bolitas). So happens that we have provided that service for quite a while. I have a couple of [...]

Since 1966 when we started our first information system, our campus has shown the spirit and determination that had helps us face some difficult times. Around 1966 or 1967 we had our first enrollment system. By 1986 we had the base of the enrollment system used today running in a DEC-10. In 1988 we had [...]

We just deployed our second self-service kiosk at the student center lobby. Not to many services available but is all about having the platform to deploy. Expect more to come.

Pensando en voz alta sobre el email y el cloud

Experiencias en Self-Service, el primer kiosko de auto-servicio.

Que es de una organización que nos impide ser ágiles? Como una institución de educación superior aveces uno asume que el CAMBIO debe ser algo de naturaleza propia para la institución. Pero la realidad es que el CAMBIO es más un proceso evolutivo que un producto de la agilidad institucional. Entonces solo cabe especular de como [...]

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