Business Information Systems

Business Information Systems (BIS) are responsible for developing and maintaining corporate information systems.  These include

  • AStRA - Aberystwyth Student Records and Admissions.
    This holds information on Admissions, Student records, Modules, Study Schemes, ID Cards, Halls, Student Finance.  This system was developed in-house using Oracle Forms and Reports.
  • Finance - Agresso QL Financials.
  • HR / Payroll - Cyborg.
  • Alumni - Donor Strategy.
  • Timetabling - Scientia Syllabus Plus.

BIS Hardware and Software

The applications run on a suite of Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows servers with data replication to provide resilience in case of system failure.

Most of our applications reference an Oracle database, currently running version 10g.  You can find out more about Oracle by visiting one of their websites.