Portal technology for integrated, user-centric university information systems

The paper describes a project that was launched as the first step towards the realisation of the Information Systems (IS) strategy plan developed for the University of Ljubljana. The strategy plan revealed many weaknesses and disadvantages of the current university IS. One of them was the lack of the possibility to utilize e-business technology. As a response the University of Ljubljana decided to renovate the current Student records IS using a technology which seems to be very promising in developing integrated, user-centric IT solutions. In the paper, we shortly introduce the strategy plan and discuss some characteristics of the portal technology. In more detail we focus on the renovation of the Student records IS. In conclusion, we expose some difficulties that we had to deal with during the project.