IS&T can assist MIT Departments, Labs, Centers and Programs in all aspects of their departmental website and database projects. The Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD) Team is an experienced team of web and database consultants who can assess your needs and guide your projects, and work with experienced MIT developers to deliver a product to MIT DLCs.
Benefits
- An understanding of MIT: its culture, resources, and IT standards
- Experience from work with other departments to design and build your websites and databases
- Commitment to best practices
- Collaboration on all phases of a project or on focused tasks
- Project management services with preferred vendors
Key features
The DCAD team:
- Offers a wide array of services including needs analysis, design, development and project management
- Prepares goals and requirements to ensure accurate estimates for your project
- Keeps costs in line from initial assessment through project delivery
- Develops applications conforming to best practices and supportable standards
- Integrates web applications and databases with MIT's IT infrastructure
- Facilitates the use of internal and external service providers including other IS&T services such as Usability, Accessibility, and Server Management Services
Some services are at no cost and some have a fee associated with them.
Learn more about our website development and our database development services.
Requirements
Projects must be MIT based; we do not work with outside clients.
Getting started
If you already have a good idea of what you need, please complete one of the two forms below to start the consultation process:
If you're not sure what you need and would like some initial guidance before starting, contact DCAD:
Email: dcad@mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-3500 (3-3500)