Amrita has developed an integrated world-class university management and e-learning platform AMRITA VIDYA, a web based software for effective management of learning services. Amrita UMS (Amrita Vidya) develops and supports all the major university-wide administrative and learning management systems.
Amrita UMS primarily helps in the development, implementation and maintenance of essential university administrative systems. Amritavidya practically covers the entire area of operations of the university. The system not only helps in daily operations of the university, but also provides the foundation to foster research and development on e-learning methodologies. Amritavidya is aided with user-friendly reports and ergonomic user-interface and thereby ensuring maximum user efficiency. It provides a comprehensive and innovative system for the effective management of content, learning, and assessment services. The main focus area in is on the integration of learning management system and university administrative applications.
The UMS include admission module, administration module, academics module, accounts module, examination module and alumni Portal/s. Amritavidya is currently deployed in the Amrita University campuses at Amritapuri, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Kochi, which brought significant impact on practically every functional area of the university. An underlying characteristic of Amritavidya is the use of open source technologies that can substantially reduce annual licensing costs, adopting business processes for better customer care and improved operational efficiencies, and use of reporting and analysis tools to support administration and decision making.
The development and support activities include software implementation, maintenance, enhancement and support. UMS provides two distinctive services: production processing support and systems development. Production processing provides support for the systems underlying technical infrastructure, overnight batch processing, and security. Systems development provides programming support for system enhancements as well as software maintenance. The emphasis in the production support area is on highly available, highly reliable systems adequately protected through the UMS security program.
In the systems development area, the emphasis is on providing software programming services that focus on maintaining and improving the administrative systems. This is accomplished by working closely with key campus administrative offices to determine best ways to enhance the systems to meet the administrative needs of the University.
The UMS security services provides access to administrative systems as well as to other systems and protects these resources from unauthorized use, destruction, disclosure, or modification. To fulfill this mission, UMS continually updates its security strategy, making use of new security technologies and securing new systems and data against new threats.
