Continue active support of the Interactive Technologies Group and the Committee on Electronic Publishing and Interactive Technologies. Penn's designation as a New Media Center resulted in significant discounts in multimedia hardware and software for labs and classrooms, vendor training on new products, and opportunities to beta test emerging technologies. Redesigning the processes that support Penn's research activities. Engaged in planning for initiatives involving security, human resources, and student services. Tools deployed for backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and job scheduling.
Work remains in areas of capacity management, database maintenance, and software distribution.
New procedures for production turnover under development. Review of the long-term suitability of the FinMIS server and operating system will continue into the fall. Consolidate Penn's phone and e-mail directory information, strengthen the systems infrastructure of PennCard, and feed both applications from the shared base of data. Deployed a common authoritative database for information about people at Penn. Seeking a way to integrate the Penn phone book database into the online e-mail directory, since Telecommunciations did not draw on the People database.