Faculty Information System (FIS) API

FIS (Faculty Information System) is being used by GC/UC Scheduling team at SNHU for scheduling teaching and short/long duration non-teaching assignments to faculty every term. Scheduling team sends electronic contract to faculty for Teaching and/or Non-teaching assignments from FIS. Based on faculty’s acceptance/ declines of the contracts, their payroll would be processed through FIS.


Security

API will secure application data from any unauthorised access to the portal. It use OAUTH token authorization mechanism and execute custom authorizer to help every incoming requests.

Scalability

API Specification is much more concerned with the overall behavior of the Application. API are typically stateless and therefore easily scalable. Simultaneously run multiple versions of the same API, allowing to quickly iterate, test, and release new versions.

Fits for all

Different client applications (such as a desktop browser, Smart devices, mobile or Laptop) required different functionalities, thus introduced an API experience, with multi layer approach on top of existing API platform.