The Pennsylvania State University - Administrative Information Services, a unit of Information Technology Services

Applications Development

In order to provide services to faculty, staff, and students across the entire University, from department to department and from campus to campus, Administrative Information Services (AIS) enables a variety of University applications to seamlessly access University data, ensuring the reliability and availability of various systems.

Services

Database Administration - Enterprise Systems (DBA-ES)

Database Administration - Enterprise Systems (DBA-ES), which operates within Administrative Information Services (AIS), manages the software and procedures that ensure the availability, reliability, and recoverability of all data supporting the ISIS, IBIS, and ADIS systems. This includes not only database administration but also data documentation, programming language, TP Monitor, and supporting functions.

DBA-ES manages Penn State's enterprise data from its conception to its testing and from its production implementation to, if needed, its recoverability in the event of a catastrophe. Penn State functions each day with the assurance that its business-critical data will be there.

Generalized Interface (GI)

GI enables developers throughout the University to use a variety of programming languages to design Web applications that perform business functions using AIS data. The GI facilitates the exchange of information between departmental systems and central AIS databases, using the Interface as a "bridge" to AIS data and a "repository" for Web services.

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