o Methodology: A Case Study

Figure 3 The Architecture of Networking at three Campuses of IUB The university has more than 10,000 students in 47 different disciplines. The figure is increasing each year due to the induction of new and innovative disciplines by the uinversity. The university has more than 2,000 emplyees. The university has more than 200,000 books in its Resource Center and a Digital Library is also functioning in the Resource Center. Table 1 below shows the number of students, the number of disciplines, the number of books and the number of emplyees of the university from year 2000 to 2009. Table 1. The Data of Students, Employees, Books and Disciplines from Year 2000-2009 Sr. Year No. of Students No. of Employees No. of Books No. of Disciplines 1 2000 3,000 500 75,000 22 2 2001 3,500 500 85,000 22 3 2002 3,300 500 85,000 22 4 2003 3,100 510 86,000 22 5 2004 4,000 575 90,000 25 6 2005 5,000 700 95,000 30 7 2006 7,000 800 100,000 35 8 2007 8,500 1,000 125,000 38 9 2008 10,000 1,500 150,000 47 10 2009 13,000 2,000 200,000 47 11 2010 14,500 2,000 210,000 48 A graph in figure 4 shows the yearly increase in the number of students. At the same time the number of employees, the number of books and the number of disciplines are also increasing yearly. 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Ye ar N

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f s tude nt s Figure 4 A Graph for Number of Students per Year 1998-2010 Only to keep the record of students, their examinations, fees and dues, number of courses taken and books issued from the resource center is a very complex task. The university have other important entities like employees, faculty and resource center. The examinations system, the finance system and the library information system are already computerized but they are not integrated with each other. The decision making from these nonintegrated systems is very difficult. The implementation of ERP system is the only choice not only for the universities but also for the other higher education and research institutions of Pakistan. The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan is implementing the Campus Management SolutionCMS, an ERP system in its all five campuses. It will provide the students, the faculty members and the administartion an immediate access to real time information and connects that information to specific action. In the first phase, students examination system and hostel management system are integrated with each other. Later on, the Library information system, Budget, Payroll, Store, Planning and Development, Advanced Studies and Research and the Audit systems will be developed and integrated with all the rest of university’s systems [5][8][9][15][16].

4. Results and Discussion