This month we feature the University of Buffalo and its development of a web-based information system. The following is a description by Frank D'Arrigo, Technical Director, Undergraduate Information Services.
State University of New York at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo has developed a web site aimed at providing articulation information to UB faculty/staff/students as well as prospective UB students. ARIES (Articulation Reporting Information System) uses HTML forms to allow users to specify which information they are interested in seeing and Microsoft ?ǬÆVisual FoxPro(tm) to read data from Oracle and Visual FoxPro tables and apply current articulation rules to the raw data using Visual FoxPro(tm. The system is unique because it leverages the IT investment UB has made in DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System), which was developed by Miami University at Ohio (http://www.dars.muohio.edu). While it is true that some other institutions have articulation reporting systems, none have successfully integrated it with the DARS mainframe product and provided access via the web.
ARIES operates on a Window NT?Ç¬Æ Server 4.0 running Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0 and Visual FoxPro.
For more information, contact:
Frank D'Arrigo
Technical Director
Undergraduate Information Services
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo New York 14260
(716) 645-6036
fdarrigo@msmail.buffalo.edu
