What CWS can do for you

Central Web Services provides significant campus-wide core web and device based services for Oregon State University for such services as: Campus Maps, Blogs using WordPress, Content Management using Drupal, Mobile and iOSU iPhone App and more.

We provide custom application development using Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Java. Our clients include the Research Office, Conference Services, Extension, OUS, Sea Grant, and many other colleges and departments. We are now moving to a more common standard for application and site development to help usability and consistency of applications across OSU.

CWS Blog

Bringing Home the Silver

Feb 27, 2012

No oops, but we did it again. Add another award winning design and implementation for the category of Overall Website in the CASE VIII 2012 Communication Awards. Oregon State University proudly brought home the Silver for the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences Website. If you don’t know by now the work [...] Read full story.

Worldwide Release: iOSU Version 1.2

Dec 8, 2011

It’s here! Central Web Services and the iOS App Development Club have been busy over the last several months getting the next version of the iOSU App for iPhone ready to release to the Apple store. So…why did it take us such a long time for our next release? In the initial release, we identified [...] Read full story.

EvalS: Your Performance Has Improved

Oct 20, 2011

The performance of the EvalS application is now ready for primetime use. The team worked hard, in conjunction with help from Enterprise Computing, to make changes to the code to improve upon the speed of the application. Locally, you should see a significan improvement. What took over 30 seconds to load before now takes a [...] Read full story.

EvalS here for performance, and its performance is first

Oct 1, 2011

Central Web Services in partnership with Human Resources and University Business Centers on Friday, with assistance from Enterprise Computing, deployed version 1.0.0 of the EvalS MyOSU portlet application on Friday, September 30th, 2011. What is EvalS? It’s an electronically-driven performance evaluation system designed to assist supervisors and employees to complete their annual goal-setting and appraisal [...] Read full story.