In addition to providing day to day support for the University's core ERP systems, Administrative Systems works with schools and business units to identify and implement IT solutions that address specific administrative needs.
Clients typically approach AS seeking to automate existing manual processes or to update older, outdated systems. With current knowledge of the latest technologies, AS can evaluate the client's needs and recommend best options. In cases where no viable commercial or community/open source solution exists, AS can often develop in-house solutions.
Partnering with AS to drive and support their IT systems frees departments and business units to focus their energies on their key goal: supporting the University's teaching, learning, and research mission.
Consulting
AS strives to be the University's most trusted IT provider and advisor. Our staff know enterprise computing; they are a talented group who bring to Stanford years of knowledge and experience from work at industry leaders such as Oracle, Cisco, and Yahoo. Combining this technical expertise with understanding of the unique requirements and challenges of the higher education environment enables AS to identify optimal IT solutions for the University. Consulting services include:
- Application and/or technology evaluation and recommendation
- Data Integration
- Application integration
New Implementations
AS combines technical expertise with innovative resource strategies to design and maintain cost-effective business systems. Operational efficiencies are achieved by automating business processes, consolidating technologies, and leveraging existing tools wherever possible. Implementation projects are approached with larger strategic goals in mind, taking into account long-term support requirements as well as trends in the rapidly evolving enterprise computing sphere. AS provides the technical resources and expertise required to engineer streamlined business solutions including:
- IT Project Management
- Requirements analysis
- Development
- Quality Assurance
- Hardware and/or infrastructure provisioning and support
Support
AS offers a wide range of technical support services to streamline and enhance department productivity through technology. Services include:
- Database administration
- System administration
- Application hosting
- Desktop virtualization
- Cloud backups
- System capacity planning
- Source code control and deployment
