University information system
| HIS Hochschul-Informations-System eG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat | Hanover |
| management | Thomas Walter (Chair); Rudolf Becker ( board member ) |
| Number of employees | 300 (December 2019) |
| Branch | Software for, until September 2013, also all aspects of social research and consulting for universities |
| Website | www.his.de |
The HIS Hochschul-Informations-System eG (until May 1, 2014 GmbH ), based in Hanover, supports the universities as well as the state university policy in the field of university IT as a software house . Until September 2013, HIS GmbH included the HIS Institute for University Research and the University Development Department, which were transferred to the newly founded DZHW (German Center for University and Science Research) GmbH.
HIS has been a registered cooperative since May 2nd, 2014 . Around 220 German universities are members of the cooperative. The central organ of the HIS eG is the general assembly. The board of directors and the supervisory board of HIS eG are made up of representatives from universities.
description
HIS was founded in 1969 by the Volkswagen Foundation as a non-profit organization and taken over as a partner by the federal and state governments in 1976. The sponsors and financiers of HIS are the federal and state governments: the federal government holds one third, the states as a whole two thirds of the company's capital. HIS is designed as part of the German higher education system. This is to ensure a long-term, continuously available service offering that is not geared towards profit interests.
With the establishment of the cooperative, the tasks of the HIS eG concentrate on the development and provision of software solutions for university administration in Germany.
University IT
HIS has been active in the field of university IT since 1969 and, as a software house for university administrations, specializes in university information systems . From admission to student and examination administration and modules for teaching, studies, research to financial and material management, cost and performance accounting as well as personnel and job management, HIS covers all of the software requirements of universities in the field of student life cycle and management human and material resources.
Using extensive know-how about university-typical decision-making, work and organizational structures, HIS advises German universities technically and administratively on hardware and software issues. In addition to the provision and implementation support for software, HIS offers the universities additional services for maintenance, care, error correction, training and operational support in real operation.
The core components of the integrated HIS online portal in the areas of admission (QISZUL), student administration (QISSOS) and examination administration (QISPOS) as well as teaching, studies, research (LSF) offer a web-based basic architecture. QIS stands for increasing the quality of university administration on the Internet through self-service . This path will be continued with the new integrated software generation HISinOne.
HISinOne
With the aim of putting the campus management software on a modern technological basis, the development of HISinOne started in 2001. The web-based software system was presented in 2008 as an integrated solution for campus management of the entire student life cycle. In 2018, HISinOne was expanded to include a research management segment.
University ERP
In addition to HISinOne, the university ERP maps the area of resource management. The focus is on applications for finance and personnel management.
University research and development
The DZHW was founded on September 1, 2013 by spinning off the HIS Institute for University Research together with the HIS University Development Department from HIS GmbH.
On January 1, 2015, all 16 federal states founded the HIS Institute for Higher Education Development and transferred the former HIS University Development Department to this institute.
criticism
In an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28, 2008, which was critical of university management software systems, problems with the HISQIS software, which can be used to manage credit points for Bachelor and Master students , were described at the University of Passau . The University of Passau denied this in a press release. In view of the 70,000 administered exams and almost 520,000 page views over a period of three months, the problems are very rare and "practically never caused by the software".
In an article dated December 23, 2011 it was reported that the connection of the HIS system to the online platform, which is to take over the central allocation of study places, has still not been implemented; Quote: "Before the meeting, some members of the council were frustrated and asked that the universities be officially advised to buy HIS competing products."
Critics feared a "private monopoly on the allocation of university places" in the discussed possibility of privatizing the HIS-IT division: "Even partial privatization of HIS GmbH would not solve the problem," said Oliver Schmolinski from the federal board of Juso university groups.
According to research by Heise Online , personal data of hundreds of thousands of students stored in the systems of HIS eG have been freely accessible online since 2011. These are said to have been the names, addresses, dates of birth and matriculation numbers of students from the winter semester 1991/1992 to the summer semester 2020. According to a university administrator, the error was corrected three days later in March 2020. Not all universities implemented the update immediately, so that even six days after the report, data from over 600,000 students was still available.
Web links
- Literature from and about the University Information System in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cooperative website
- 19th Social Survey on the Economic and Social Situation of Students in Germany 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ DZHW press release ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chaos on campus. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ "Every year over 70,000 exams are administered via HISQIS - almost 520,000 online accesses in three months". Press release from the University of Passau about satisfaction with the HISQIS software
- ↑ Chaos without end. In: The time
- ↑ Privatization planned. In: Junge-welt.de
- ↑ Sylvester Tremmel: c't reveals. Data leak at universities. In: Heise online. March 17, 2020, accessed March 17, 2020 .
