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The New Indian Express, Bhubaneswar Tuesday October 21, 2003
XIMB
ties up with Nettech to take its AIS places
ENS
Economic Bureau
Bhubaneswar,
Oct. 20: Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
(XIMB) has joined hands with city-based Nettech to
market its Academic Information System (AIS) to
educational institutions in the country.
The
software, developed jointly by Dr. G. K. Nayak,
professor of Information Systems and former dean of
XIMB and Dr. Marcel Weverbergh, professor of
marketing, University of Antwerp, Belgium has been in
operation at the institute for four years now and has
also been installed at XLRI Jamshedpur and GIFT
Vishakhapatnam.
AIS
has two components AIS Client Server for use by
the academic and administrative offices and AIS
On-Line for use by the faculty, students, staff and
alumni and its system requirements include Oracle
database server, Microsoft IIS as Web server and
Oracle developer 2000 runtime components.
AIS
is ideal for autonomous institutes and helps in
smoother academic administration, courseware and
knowledge management, online evaluation and learning.
It provides a virtual campus, thereby making distance
learning programme very effective. Being web enabled,
it provides relevant information to the students both
on and off the campus all the time. Said Nayak.
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