Areas of Responsibility
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- Accounting software
- User support, security, upgrades, and a small amount of custom
programming
Our Business Office uses the IFAS software
from BI-TECH Software, Inc.
There are modules of the software to cover many aspects of running
the business side of a college, and we use most of the ones
available:
- AP - Accounts Payable
- AR - Accounts Receivable
- CK - Check Management
- EN - Encumberances
- FA - Fixed Assets
- GL - General Ledger
- HR - Human Resources
- NU - NUCLEUS Security
- PE - Person/Entity
- PO - Purchasing
- PY - Payroll
- RX - Ad Hoc Report Writer
IFAS also
interfaces with IRIS, our student records
software from Software Research
Northwest, Inc. There are modules of the software to track
many kinds of college records, and we use most of the ones
available:
- AFF - Student Affairs
- AID - Financial Aid
- BOX - Central Mailing Module
- HHE - Harvest (Alumni and Gifts)
- RIM - Registrar Information
- SAM - Student Admissions
- Custom reports
- Designing and programming add-on reports for our accounting software
and our student records software
While we try to stick with the standard reports
that are part of our software packages, there are always reporting
needs above and beyond what is provided. Our custom reports
are written in Quiz, the 4GL reporting language that is
part of the PowerHouse suite
of software from Cognos Incorporated.
- Custom applications
- Designing and programming complete applications for computing
needs not covered by our accounting software or our student
records software
We write our own software for our needs that
extend beyond what is provided by our purchased packages.
- Accounts Receivable add-ons
- Admissions add-ons
- Bookstore textbook requisitions
- Chapel attendance tracking
- College Development add-ons
- College Fleet usage and billing
- Community Relations job tracking
- Computing Services computer inventory
- Computing Services lab printer billing
- Conference Services facility scheduling
interface
- Dining Services invoices and event tracking
and billing
- Education Department field experiences and
applications for certification
- Faculty Development awards
- Faculty Services job tracking
- Financial Aid add-ons and work study tracking
- Grade Book Manager student rosters
- HPER Department student information
- ID Office ID card printing
- Institutional Summary Data
- Key Control issuance tracking
- Library patron lists
- Maintenance Department work order billing
- Monthly Payment Plan billing
- Payroll add-ons
- Public Safety vehicle registrations and
fines billing
- Purchasing/Central Receiving add-ons
- Purchasing Cards billing
- Registrar's Office add-ons
- Reprographic Services job tracking and billing
- Student Life add-ons and dorm access
- Word Processing job tracking
Our custom applications are written in Insight,
a 4GL application package. The vendor no longer supports
it, and it is now a dead product. We are planning to re-write
these applications using Axiant,
a client/server development package from Cognos Incorporated.
- ID Card system
- User support
Messiah uses the Optim9000 software from AT&T CampusWide Access Solutions.
We have expanded our use of the system almost every year and
now we use most of the functions that are available:
- Dining Room student meals
- Point-of-Sale for the Snack Shop, Bookstore,
Convenience Store, and Coffee Shop
- Vending machines
- Activity attendance
- Photocopying and microfiche machines
- Dorm/Facility access
- Laundry
- Interfaces between applications and platforms
- Designing and programming interfaces to and from our accounting
software, student records software, ID card system, custom
applications, and any other miscellaneous software that needs
to interface with mainframe applications or databases
- HP3000 user account administration
- User authorization maintenance and security concerns
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