User:Rewood/ACS Mission

The mission of Administrative Computing Services is to provide the campus community efficient and effective access to the University's administrative information by:

• Providing application development and support for University administrative applications (student systems; receipt-supported departments via contract programming);
• Developing specialized applications for various functions with Finance and Business in order to maximize emerging technologies;
• Being the custodian of University administrative databases;
• Providing database administration and data warehousing functions for supported databases;
• Providing and maintaining the University's administrative computer infrastructure;
• Providing connectivity to administrative applications, other data sources within the University, and non-university specific business applications external to the University;
• Providing maintenance and backup support for external departmental servers;
• Providing assistance to customers in support of the administrative environment via the Solutions Center;
• Maintaining security for administrative applications;
• Providing production support for the batch and online administrative environments;
• Providing support for electronic exchange of information;
• Conducting research on new technology including the PeopleSoft environment;
• Coordinating Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning efforts; and
• Working closely with other University units to ensure optimal capability of the University to conduct its business.