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MICA Connected: Bringing people, information and services together through innovative technology

Launched in January 2007, is a multi-year initiative designed to bring people together around technology.

This strategy is composed of three related projects:
* MICA's web redesign
* Upgrades of MICA's administrative systems
* Building new models for supporting technology

MICA featured as Oracle Customer SuccessCast

Ted Simpson was recently interviewed by Oracle for a SuccessCast about MICA's HR, Campus Solutions and Portal 9.0 upgrades.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Taking the Show on the Road

MICA Connected has been rolling along in the months after our CS and Portal 9.0 upgrades. Faculty submitted on-line grades for in December, students have been paying bills online and HR is releasing self service components to staff, faculty and students.

Success!

While running the upgrade scripts for CS 9.0 took just under 30 hours, we spent the majority of our time doing all the other upgrade tasks:

  • security - always needs to be tweaked (and particularly with this upgrade since there were lots of security changes)
  • deep linking with CS 9 and Portal 9 - something that couldn't be tested until after the upgrade scripts finished

28 : 16

Twenty eight hours and sixteen minutes is how long it took to finish running upgrade scripts and have our initial 9.0 Campus Solutions database.

We had some very minor issues with the speed of backups which made this part of the process about five hours longer than it could have been. But we're still about six hours ahead of schedule.

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