Evolving and Implanting Web-Based E-Government-Systems in Universities

Abstract. The Bologna Process [1] has triggered a major restructuring of the current university diploma into a bachelor/master system. As one effect, the administration effort for the new system has increased dramatically. As a second effect, students need and demand a much better information policy, given the new possibilities of the internet. Both to increase efficiency of the university's administration and to provide students as well as lecturers with modern e-government services, it is inevitable to evolve the current IT-infrastructure of a university into a modern web-based landscape of systems that support business processes on campus. In this paper, we describe the approach taken at the Braunschweig University of Technology to evolve the existing landscape of legacy systems by adding bridges between previously unrelated parts, adding and customizing unused modules of existing software to bring information and services online and to develop new software, where old modules c...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ISTA
• Authors: Dirk Reiss, Bernhard Rumpe, Marvin Schulze-Quester, Mark Stein
• Keywords: Business Processes, Current University Diploma, Information Technology, ISTA 2008, Modern E-government Services