12/12/08
The Texas A&M Health Science Center has selected the Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC) from Sungard Higher Education to help unify its geographically-dispersed community and to enhance and expand services and communications to its growing student enrollment.
12/11/08
Community colleges are in a good spot in some ways during the economic downturn, as tight family budgets drive up the appeal of the community college option. But along with the rest of higher education, most community colleges also face shrinking IT budgets and tighter resources. That makes it that much harder to handle the growing enrollment numbers that some community colleges are seeing.
12/11/08
The University of Oxford has selected Blackbaud Enterprise CRM from Blackbaud Europe to support its global fundraising operations. In May the university, which has 38 independent colleges and six permanent private halls, launched what has been called the biggest fundraising campaign in European history, aiming to raise a minimum of £1.25 billion.
12/10/08
This fall, Datatel announced its concentration on the Strategic Academic Enterprise. CT asked Vice President, Strategic Planning and Marketing Jayne Edge and Director of Product Marketing Eileen Smith to comment on the SAE focus.
12/03/08
How IBM's new release is following through on old challenges... big ones.
12/03/08
A college or university without a Web site is inconceivable today, but with every site comes the challenge of managing content. Some sort of automated system is a given, but how much should the site's content management system integrate with other aspects of the campus computing infrastructure?
11/25/08
Plymouth State University in New Hampshire has deployed Rapid Insight Data Integration software to simplify data management. The school uses Data Integration to collect data from multiple sources and view it in multiple ways. The application incorporates drag-and-drop icons and arrows that let users connect the data sources to functions including merge, filter, cleanse, aggregate, de-dupe, flatten, append, sort, and rename.
11/25/08
Microsoft exec Kirill Tatarinov Wednesday described some new features to expect in the forthcoming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 enterprise resource planning solution. He gave the keynote address at Microsoft's Convergence 2008 event in Copenhagen, Denmark.
11/21/08
Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania is using the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education for data management and reporting to help the university improve recruitment, retention, and graduation rates. Using the application, Slippery Rock tracks and shares information on student performance and quality.
11/20/08
When colleges and universities consider a constituent relationship management (CRM) initiative, they all too often focus on the technology while failing to consider the underlying philosophy behind CRM. That's according to Audrey Bledsoe, who is manager of CRM technologies at DePaul University in Chicago.