Products

• MyHousing Student Web Suite
• MyHousing DeskStaff
• Conference Host
• Health and Counseling Module
• GuestPass Tracker
• Telephone Billing Module
• Data Interface Module (DIM)

• The Judicial Officer
• MyJudicial Web Interface
• CleryWorks
• GuestPass Tracker
• Data Interface Module (DIM)

• flexPARK
• Sports Camp Manager
• Health and Counseling Module
• Telephone Billing Module
• Data Interface Module (DIM)

• Conference Host

Data Interface Module (DIM)

Your housing solution must communicate with your other systems on campus, or else it is not being used to its potential. Regardless of what other products you use, our interfacing products will work with any of them. Our applications are open-ended tools that can be made to work with just about anything including student information systems, billing systems, card access, dining, etc. There are several ERP companies with whom we have partnerships. Please see our partners page for a complete list.

Adirondack Solutions offers two open-architecture tools for a combination of true real-time and batch data interfacing. Both tools allow the user to establish the connection to the external data source, specify the tables/views involved, and then match up our internal fields to your external fields. The interfaces can import and export with our custom fields, and database functions can be included to transform data for the data exchange.

The Data Interface Module (DIM) can import student data from any ODBC-compliant database. It can also export data to delimited or fixed-width files or directly into any ODBC database table. The exports can include student data, assignments, billing transactions, dining plans, dining points, judicial fines, health & counseling center fees, and more. The DIM also acts as a scheduler to automate these batch exports and imports. The Housing Director also includes the ability to import one student at a time from an OBDC-compliant database. This is useful if a student who is not currently in the housing database, walks into the housing office to request housing.

The real-time interface lets you establish multiple export processes, each linked to one or more events that can be triggered from within The Housing Director. For example, when a student switches rooms, the real-time interface can send their new room assignment to your card access system and to your student information system, while the new credit/charge transactions can be sent to the billing system. It is even intelligent enough to distinguish between events that are occurring now versus events that are going to take place in the future, such as a room swap next Monday. In that case, the real-time export can wait until Monday to send the data (managed by the DIM).