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Susan Hilton
Director, Administrative Services
hilton@oregon.uoregon.edu
The year 2003 will be a busy year for Administrative Services staff as we continue to work to keep pace with technology while simultaneously meeting users' needs.
Several major changes are in the works this year to help us better serve administrative users, including new versions of Banner, hardware upgrades, shifting away from the use of Social Security numbers to identify people, and the development of new online services.
One of the most notable changes will be a new way of accessing Banner. We're in the process of configuring and testing two Sun Fire servers that will support web access to Banner. This new version of Banner, known as Internet Native Banner (INB), will allow users to access Banner via a web browser.
Under INB, you'll no longer need to install client software before using Banner. After testing INB with an Oregon Hall group in January, we plan to make it available to the entire campus in spring 2003.
Also on the horizon is an upgrade to Oracle 9.2, probably in the late summer or fall, as well as the annual Banner upgrade—this year we'll be migrating to Banner 6.
Other Administrative Services projects for the year include:
If you have questions about what we're doing, or suggestions as to how we can better serve you, please contact Susan Hilton (hilton@oregon.uoregon.edu, 346-1725).