Development of the JAVA platform continues. We have started to build a web interface to retrieve degree audits from Sybase using the same JAVA infrastructure as the BARC project. Users can specify travel reimbursements to their Surepay accounts or to another account of their choosing. Following a successful checkoff by interested parties we will declare the old FDX system obsolete. The new system includes digitized floorplans of three campus buildings.
Next decision is whether to expand digitization to all campus buildings.
We were very happy with Infotech Enterprises, the vendor who helped us implement the Archibus software. We imported the UCI Equipment Management System and have it working in our environment. Our Material Management office is currently evaluating the effort necessary to integrate EQS with our existing purchasing and ledger systems. They will then compare to this estimate with the estimate of work required to make the existing system Y2K compliant and select a path for us to follow. Year 2000 work continues with two contractors and a couple of our own staff contributing.