The role of the State University of Management scientific school in university management automation systems development

The purpose of the study is to supplement and clarify the current system of knowledge about the processes of forming and developing the domestic experience of university management automation. The results of the study of genesis and evolution of information technologies of educational management at the State University of Management, which is one of the pioneer universities in the sphere of organizational management processes automation, including in higher education institutions, have been presented. The main stages of developing the processes of educational activity management digitalization, accompanying events, circumstances, and persons who had a significant impact on the course of it have bene outlined. The basic capabilities of digital information technologies, conditioned by the technological level of their development, have been considered as criteria for identifying the stages. The first stage includes developments based on the use of batch mode of information processing, and the second stage includes developments using interactive technologies of interaction between automation systems and end users. The third stage includes systems built on the principles of Web technologies. Possible directions and approaches of further development of university management digitalization systems have been analyzed. The “automation” and “digitalization” terms have been considered as synonymous since from the very first steps digital computers have been used to automate organizational management processes.