How does SalukiNet differ from UniLink?
UniLink was our touch-tone telephone system that also allowed you to access some of your SIUC student records. UniLink was first unveiled at SIUC in late 1993 and was retired in Fall 2003. Obviously getting your records by pressing buttons on a telephone keypad and then listening to a recorded voice speak back the results was not as quick and easy as typing and clicking on your PC and getting back a screen of information which you can print out. That was a limitation of the UniLink technology. Another limitation was that some of the data on UniLink was not as “real-time” as that on SalukiNet, and was updated only after overnight SIS processing. On the other hand, UniLink had allowed for some form of student self-registration since Fall 1994, while that functionality for SalukiNet was introduced as a pilot project only in 2002, and was finally made available to the larger SIUC community in Fall 2003.
