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What
is AMS? |
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AMS
is Academic Managemet Systems. AMS was started seven years ago as
TASC (The Academic Software Collaboration), an administrative software
development unit of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.
The name was derived from the philosophy that we are constantly working
in collaboration with our users, and that our users also benefit from
working in collaboration with each other. We see ourselves as part
of an academic partnership comprised of schools with similar needs.
The mission of our new company is to provide excellent academic management
software and information technology consultation services for health
professions’ schools.
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How
has this collaboration been expressed in the past? |
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Users
are connected via a listserv and through ‘active’ web pages where
they can stay in touch with each other, and when they call the AMS
office, both parties can view their installation details and all recent
correspondence using our ‘User Support’ website. Users also train
other users. Not only does this keep costs down, it also insures a
very practical approach to the training. |
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Why
was Academic Management Systems started? |
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Academic
Management Systems, formerly known as TASC, was started seven years
ago when the UB School of Dental Medicine decided to try to recover
the costs of its administrative software development through the sale
of locally developed applications to other health professions schools.
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Who
is AMS? |
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Dr.
John Eisner, Associate Dean for Information Resources, started TASC
at the UB School of Dental Medicine with Michael Russo, our lead software
engineer and project manager. From this beginning, we added a marketing
and user support group, consisting of Jennifer Cucco and Linda Wyatt,
as well as a second full-time programmer, Ed Brooks. In addition to
these full-time staff we also rely on a number of part-time staff
including Brian Beiter (Support), Renee Cerullo
(Support), Henry Goodman (WebDC), and Bryant Tyson (WebDC). Most recently,
three new colleagues have joined the AMS family the corporate office
in Watertown, MA. They include George Haddad, the new President of
AMS, along with Amy Chan (Operations) and Julie Riel (Marketing). |
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What
is our software development strategy? |
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Our
plan is to develop one new product each year, and try to maintain
and improve each existing product as recommended by our users. We
have used Visual FoxPro 6.0, to develop our applications. This past
year we have begun to migrate our product line to the Web using an
ISAPI-based application server we have developed called NexIIS. |
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