Online Faculty Information System is a project originating in Engineering Computing, now expanding to be useful campus-wide (for increasing values of "useful" and increasing values of "campus-wide" at the University of Waterloo).
A user-level pdf description (circa 2006) is here.
Information in this area is meant for use by CSCF staff and is not official documentation, but anybody who is interested is welcome to use it if they find it useful.