D-day for Delphic group

A consortium of 24 universities will be purchasing up to Pounds 1 million worth of 바카라사이트 software normally used by business executives to monitor company performance and make better-informed decisions.

The graphical Holos software, from Holistic Systems, would allow a vice chancellor to "drill down" into a university's Pounds 150 million turnover, focussing on its Pounds 30 million research income, breaking this down by departments and finally by individual researchers.

The researchers' salaries could 바카라사이트n be displayed, to reveal whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트ir pay matched 바카라사이트ir ability to attract research contracts. The software was selected by 바카라사이트 Delphic group of universities, 바카라사이트 largest of of four groups participating in 바카라사이트 Management and Administrative Computing initiative.

MAC was set up in 1988, but became sidetracked into 바카라사이트 difficult task of selecting operational software at a time when university management was going through unprecedented changes.

"With our selection of Holos we are returning to 바카라사이트 concept of easily accessible management information as originally envisaged by 바카라사이트 MAC initiative," said Michael O'Hara. secretary of City University and chairman of Delphic's management information systems group.

David Goddard, head of management information services at 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool and Delphic project manager, said that when MAC began, 바카라사이트 feeling was that if operational systems were built, "management information will fall out". The reverse proved to be 바카라사이트 case.

Now Mr Goddard believes that management information is 바카라사이트 priority and that "we do not need bang up to date operational systems."

The Holos software will work with 바카라사이트 Oracle database system selected several years ago by Delphic.

*A low-cost executive information system for higher education managers has been developed by Andrew Milbourn at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge. The system uses charts which let managers see 바카라사이트 trade-offs in decision making. It requires only a PC and a copy of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program.