About SIGMA
SIGMA Gestion Universitaria is a not-for-profit consortium established in 1996 by a group of 8 top level Spanish Public Universities to provide technological solutions to their needs for managing academic, learning, research and organization processes. SIGMA represents the 20% of the students in the Spanish university system. The consortium's objective has evolved towards the continuous technological modernization of university management through the development of IT solutions aimed at automating the administrative processes and, as a result, guaranteeing their effectiveness.
Technology and Innovation are the backbone of the services and solutions provided, based on a highly open source development and deployment platform for J2EE5 certified application servers compliant on a multi-tier and high performance proven open architecture. Internationalization is one of SIGMA's top priorities, as well. For years SIGMA has established relationships with other European universities consortiums. Lately SIGMA has open new strategic areas of interest such as SaaS, BI, eLearning and Mobile. SIGMA focuses the development and support of two main suites of solutions:
The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was created to construct the Europe of Knowledge and place it at the international forefront, in order to benefit mobility and employment opportunities, and also to unify higher education studies in the EU. Since then, one of the main priorities of SIGMA has been the adaptation of its products and services to the requirements of the EHEA, thus assisting the universities in the group as they go through this important transformation process.
The European Research Area (ERA) was created to facilitate the mobility of researchers, attract the best world researchers and coordinate the national and regional programs. Since then, SIGMA has incorporated in its products adaptations and new functionalities to support the scientific activity as well as its promotion, and has aligned its ARGOS Research Project with the ERA requirements.
Figure 1. Suite SIS VEGA Students Information System
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Figure 2. Suite CRIS ARGOS Research Information System
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