Strong Demand Continues For PeopleSoft Student Administration; Higher Education Institutions Select Industry Leading Solution to Transform Campus Operations.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) today announced that strong demand continues for its Student Administration solution. The University of Maine System The University of Maine System (UMS) is a network of public universities in Maine. Created in 1968 by the Maine State Legislature, the University of Maine System consists of seven universities, each with a distinct mission and regional character. , North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). University System and the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used have recently licensed PeopleSoft 8 Student Administration to modernize their campus operations. PeopleSoft's pure Internet solutions will provide these universities with real-time access to academic and administrative information enabling collaboration and delivering improved service for students, faculty, and staff. "With seven individual campuses to manage, we needed a technology solution that could seamlessly integrate our administrative systems and ensure consistent business processes across the university system," said Joanne Yestramski, chief financial officer and treasurer of University of Maine System. "The PeopleSoft Student Administration applications will provide students, faculty and staff with real-time enrollment, financial and administrative information, eliminating physical boundaries and enhancing communication." The University of Maine System (UMS (Unified Messaging System) See unified messaging. ) recently selected PeopleSoft's industry-leading solutions for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. including PeopleSoft Student Administration, Financial Management, and Human Capital Management. UMS needed to replace several disparate legacy systems with an integrated enterprise solution across multiple campuses. With the existing system, students attending classes at more than one UMS campus were required to register in multiple locations resulting in inconsistent paperwork from the various campus departments serving them. The PeopleSoft Student Administration solution will unify campus systems and provide a single intuitive interface. As a result, UMS students will benefit from easy access to enrollment, degree management and tuition payment information through a standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . The North Dakota University System (NDUS NDUS North Dakota University System ) needed to move its academic and administrative functions online and replace various legacy student systems across its eleven campuses. PeopleSoft's Student Administration solution provides students with distributed learning Distributed Learning means a method of instruction that relies primarily on indirect communication between students and teachers, including internet or other electronic-based delivery, teleconferencing or correspondence; (British Columbia, School Act, 2006). capabilities, allowing them to take self-paced, online courses from a standard web browser, anywhere in the world, at any time. In addition, instructors and advisors will have online access to student transcripts and degree requirements allowing them to create enrollment option scenarios to advise students on additional courses they need to take to be able to graduate. The University of Arkansas (UA) has licensed PeopleSoft Student Administration to replace a highly customized mainframe system that became prohibitively expensive to operate and maintain. The solution will enable UA to improve campus operations including admissions, financial aid, and enrollment. PeopleSoft's open framework enables easy integration with other campus systems and simplifies the data collection required by state regulatory agencies state regulatory agency A state body responsible for establishing professional standards, and for certifying professionals or organizations through appropriate documentation such as the Arkansas Department of Higher Education (ADHE ADHE Arkansas Department of Higher Education ). "Market demand in the Higher Education sector for PeopleSoft's pure Internet solutions has been tremendous," said Kevin Horigan, PeopleSoft's managing director for Education and Government. "PeopleSoft continues to demonstrate its leadership by delivering industry-leading Higher Education solutions that quickly and cost-effectively transform campus operations." About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) is the world's leading provider of application software for the real-time enterprise. PeopleSoft pure Internet software enables organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity by directly connecting customers, suppliers, partners and employees to business processes on-line, in real time. PeopleSoft's integrated, best-in-class applications include Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management and Financial Management. More than 4,700 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft software. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com. Note to Editors: PeopleSoft and the PeopleSoft logo are registered trademarks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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