Access to the warehouse for Macintosh users is now available through the tool BrioQuery, and significant strides were made toward enhancing the warehouse's interface with the web. E-Forms is yet another tool that we have developed to help ease the burdens of administrative duties of University faculty and staff. The original goals of the E-Forms project included expediting the processing of institutional forms and having the originator of the transaction perform the actual data entry. We now aim to broaden the project's scope to include departmental forms and those submitted from outside the University, thereby improving the overall efficiency of administrative and academic units. Growth in E-Forms use has occurred both among University departments and with external persons.
Prospective students can now begin the application process on-line.
Last year, the admissions office received some 8,496 application requests through E-Forms. Several new forms are under development, including financial administration's bank deposits, payroll timesheets, and telephone service requests, as well as certain parking and transportation forms. Several key pieces of equipment that undergird our ability to develop and use simple, customer-centered applications were upgraded or replaced during the year. In ITC's operations division , some significant hardware upgrades were made in preparation for Year 2000 conversion efforts. Another major change was the replacement of a Xerox 4050 laser printer with a Xerox 4090 laser printer.