97-10-27 Ohio State Wins Information Technology Award

OHIO STATE WINS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ‘BEST PRACTICE’ AWARD

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University has won a national
award for a World Wide Web project allowing students to read some
of their own computerized academic records.

     The university received the Best Practice award last week at
Technology Expo ’97, the annual meeting of the Technology
Managers Forum International in New York.  The awards were co-
sponsored by PC Week.

     Ohio State won in the Intranet category, for best use of web
technologies and protocols for proprietary applications.  The
project involved creating web server applications so Ohio State
students could have interactive access to some of their data
stored in university databases.

     John Orwig was project leader for a team of eight University
Registrar staff members.  Orwig, of University Technology
Services, said he and the team are thrilled to receive national
recognition for the university and for their efforts.  He said
the fact that “it’s in web development makes it even better.”

     “We found a product from Attachmate Corporation that would
let us easily develop interactive student access, and we
developed seven interactive applications,” Orwig said.  For
instance, students can view their schedules online, as well as
their grades and academic histories, and they can conduct a
degree audit, which compares the classes they have taken with
degree requirements.

     Technology Managers Forum International is a professional
organization composed of information technology executives from
large organizations.  The forum’s awards recognize quality
achievements in technology management that provide a competitive
advantage to the business environment.

     ‘Best Practice’ denotes a standard of excellence that has
been achieved within an organization and refers to a process that
can be quantified, adapted and repeated.  Awards were based on
how best practices were used in developing and implementing the
application.  The practices must have had an impact on at least
100 users and were to be implemented by June 1997.  Organizations
had to have a minimum of $500 million in gross annual revenues.

     The five Best Practice Award winners will be featured on the
Technology Managers Forum’s website, Techforum.com.  The other
winners are Digital Equipment Corp. for Business Process
Improvements, BankBoston for Return on Investment, Simon and
Schuster for Web Site and KPMG Peat Marwick for Technology
Innovation.

     Judges for the honors were from General Reinsurance Corp.;
Standard & Poor’s Rating Services; Merrill Lynch; U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers; PC Week; AT&T; C.R. BARD; Depository Trust Co.;
Neil Chernoff, Planet ASAP, Lante Corporation; Goldstein Golub &
Kessler; McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen; and Citrix Systems.

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Contacts:
John Orwig, University Technology Services and University
     Registrar, (614) 292-2223 or orwig.1@osu.edu
Bob Kalal, University Technology Services, (614) 292-6553 or
     kalal.1@osu.edu
Priscilla Tate, Technology Managers Forum executive director,
     (212) 787-1122


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
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