In the Fall of 2004, ACCD began replacing the core administrative systems (Finance, Human Resources, and Student Information System, Financial Aid) with the fully integrated Oracle based Banner system. The TITAN project also includes the implementation of the Portal and other ancillary software applications. The projects are estimated to be completed over a four year period. The new systems will enable ACCD to provide more effective and efficient services for the growing needs of its students, faculty and staff. Titan Projects

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Banner
Banner is the enterprise administrative system used by students, faculty and staff of the Alamo Community College District. ACCD Information Technologies is in the process of implementing the Banner system and related applications.

CAPP
TITAN project list also includes the implementation of the CAPP system which is a degree auditing/checking system within Banner. CAPP tool can be used to measure student's progress towards meeting their Degree/Program requirements and using self service options help to make decisions on academic success. CAPP can be a valuable tool for advisors.

PALS
Pals portal replaced the ePortal application January 2006, providing a front end and a single point of contact to many of the enterprise applications and services. PALS in addition to the applications, provides a lot of collaborative tools, such as, groups, chat, email and calendar tools.

WebCT
For several years, ACCD has been using the WebCT Campus Edition Learning management system (LMS) to support the online teaching and learning needs of the students and faculty. To meet the increased demands of online learning, ACCD will upgrade the current LMS to WebCT Vista which is an enterprise system with many new features and is scalable to meet the growing online activities of ACCD.

Asset Management (Wise Track)
This project's objective is to implement a Total Asset Management Solution for ACCD that manages all aspects of the Asset Lifecycle model from Asset Acquisition to Disposal. Asset management system will be fully interfaced with the Banner application and complement the Fixed Assets features available within the Banner application.

Document Management System
For several years, ACCD has been using the Digital Document System to digitize, manage and archive paper documents. Under the TITAN project, the Digital Documents system will be upgraded to a newer version allowing the system to be interfaced with the Banner administrative system.

Information Access Initiative
The scope of this project includes system wide enterprise and departmntal reporting strategies, tools, training strategies, report development strategies and priorities. SAS BI tool set will be used as the single reporting/queries solution for the entire enterprise using enterprise using enterprise and department data sources.

Student Tracking System
As a part of the TITAN initiative, ACCD Information Technologies will create a task force to begin evaluating a tool for tracking and to conduct lab services, attendance tracking, staff tracking, appointment tracking, application tracking and to conduct lab web site traffic analysis. The application will be fully integrated with the Banner Student Information System.

Facilities Management System
TITAN project list also includes the implementation of a facilities reservation and tracking system with powerful reporting features designed to optimize ACCD's usability of facilities resources. The application will be fully interfaced with Banner application.