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- Districts
- Schools (Colleges)
- Persons (Students)
- Terms
- Courses
Apply currently requires colleges to maintain an Apply specific tables for Districts, Colleges and Terms. College Staff typically enter this data in their own College SIS, then re-enter the exact same data in the Apply Administrator Application. What this means is that we now maintain multiple sets of duplicate master data at the colleges and in the Apply database. To eliminate duplicates, or to keep the duplicate sets of data in sync, we introduce the concept of Master Data Management.
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Because Project Glue exchanges dmaster data such as Courses and terms between multiple systems via a common interface, it has aspects or a master data management (MDM) system.
Though project glue was originally designed to meet the data requirements of course exchange, its ability to share master data between colleges makes Project Glue well suited to support the master data requirements of other systems such as Apply, Assess, MyPath, CID and others as well.