Administrative/Business Apps
- Harris Intros Facebook-based Alumni Connections
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5/27/2008
Harris Connect has launched a new alumni and student relations tool built on the Facebook Platform. Dubbed "Community Connections," the application is designed to provide secure connections between schools and their Facebook-using constituents and keep them engaged with news and other information.
- Microsoft To Adopt ODF, Take Role in Format Development
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5/21/2008
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) that Microsoft has been stifling options for users by favoring its own OOXML format.
- BYU Applies Software to Job of Integrating Output from IT Management Tools
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5/20/2008
Brigham Young University (BYU) has implemented Managed Objects BSM (business service management) from Managed Objects to strengthen its adoption of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. BYU tapped the software to integrate, correlate and model data from multiple IT management tools in order to understand the relationships and dependencies among the school's IT components from a comprehensive service perspective.
- Maryland Institute College of Art Upgrades Administrative Systems To Manage Growth
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5/19/2008
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), a private art college in Baltimore, has upgraded to Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0. MICA completed a move to PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, Campus Solutions, Contributor Relations, and Enterprise Portal and is now upgrading to Enterprise Financial Management 9.0.
- Virginia Western CC Streamlines Event Management and Marketing
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5/19/2008
Virginia Western Community College has begun using software from Intelliworks to help the school's Workforce Development office manage its outreach and events. The school, based in the Roanoke Valley, has 12,500 students. The workforce development office, called LearnConnect, offers training services, including customized as well as online training to the regional business community. Current offerings include an environmental technician program, equine studies, and welder training.
- College Coaches Use Webcams To Stay in Touch with Recruits
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5/14/2008
College coaches are turning to webcams as a way to stay in touch with potential recruits to bypass new National Collegiate Athletic Association restrictions that forbid in-person visits to high school campuses during the spring evaluation period, according to a report from AP.
- VBA To Return to Mac; Office 2008 SP1 Released
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5/13/2008
Microsoft Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume). In a surprise move, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit also announced that it plans to bring Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) back to the Mac platform with the next major release.
- Student Retention: Are Schools Taking Advantage of Technology?
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5/13/2008
College and university administrators consider personal attention to be the most critical factor in retaining at risk students. But what role should technology play in the effort?
- American Samoa CC Upgrades Administration Management
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5/12/2008
American Samoa Community College has gone public with its intention to buy software and services from Datatel to build an administrative system and enhance services to its community of users. The school will be using Datatel Colleague and ActiveCampus Portal to replace a legacy system.
- Business Intelligence Tool Means Healthy Data at UVA
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5/8/2008
University IT groups will recognize the challenge of combining disparate data from more than one department in order to create meaningful reports for various users. At the University of Virginia Department of Medicine, which is overseen by UVA's School of Medicine, data was coming from two very different accounting systems, which meant problems for faculty members whenever they needed to run reports.
- Texas, Arizona and North Dakota Campuses Sign on for Higher One Refund Management Services
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5/7/2008
Higher One, a financial services company serving higher education, said 15 colleges and universities have signed agreements in the first quarter of 2008 to use its OneDisburse Refund Management system to handle disbursement of refunds to students.
- Update: Windows XP SP3 Available
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5/6/2008
Users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft Tuesday. Distribution of the service pack through Automatic Updates will be available "in the next few months," the announcement added.
- Tiffin U Boosts Student Retention with Technology-Driven Outreach
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5/5/2008
Tiffin University said it has seen positive results in streamlining its student retention information and communication with software from Hobsons Student Retention Solutions. The Tiffin, OH-based school is using the application to help it identify, communicate with and help students stay enrolled. Tiffin has about 2,000 students.
- Consolidation Bringing IT Budgets Down in 2008
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4/29/2008
Information technology executives are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report released this week by research analysts at IDC.
- Microsoft Nixes XP Extended-Life Rumors
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4/28/2008
Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, which will no longer be sold after June 30, seemed to get a reprieve of sorts when Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer made a quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback. However, one of Microsoft's official PR agencies denied the suggestion that XP would get a break from its scheduled end date.
- Peralta CC Completes Transition to PeopleSoft ERP
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4/24/2008
Peralta Community College District has completed a migration from legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to PeopleSoft 8.9, according to the professional services company hired to guide the college on its implementation. RWD Technologies said the decision to migrate Peralta to the Oracle platform was driven by the need to unify separate ERP processes across the four-campus system.
- Texas A&M University Stays in Touch with Constituents with CRM Software
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4/23/2008
The George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University has gone public with plans to use Talisma constituent relationship management software. The school said it hopes to apply the software to the job of multi-department data and interaction management for student recruitment and retention.
- Northwestern U Puts Kronos Workforce Central To Work
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4/21/2008
Northwestern University has selected the Workforce Central suite from Kronos to manage employee hours and costs. Like many universities, the school has a complex workforce that includes a large number of student employees working at its campuses in Chicago and Evanston, IL. The software will also track absenteeism for the university's 10,000-plus employees, including absences that qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
- New Web Service Helps International Students Make School Payments
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4/21/2008
Custom House, a foreign exchange and international payments company, has launched a new international service to help universities and colleges accept payment from international students.
- Michigan State University Automates Capital Project Management
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4/21/2008
Michigan State University (MSU) has implemented with a new internal capital project management application. Skire Unifier provides collaboration mechanisms and control and visibility into individual capital projects and across a school's project and facilities portfolio. MSU eventually intends to extend the implementation to its IT and facilities management organizations in subsequent phases of the deployment.
- Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition Adds Role-based Security Admin, Sheet Integration
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4/18/2008
Software developer Zoho this week released Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition, an expanded version of the company's Web-based constituent relationship management solution and part of its Business Applications set.
- Brigham Young University in Idaho Moves to Jenzabar for ERP
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4/17/2008
Brigham Young University - Idaho (BYU - Idaho) has selected Jenzabar's Total Campus Management enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The suite the school will use includes Jenzabar CX, Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution (JICS) and the Jenzabar Non-Traditional System (Jenzabar NTS).
- First Look: IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 4
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4/15/2008
IBM Lotus Symphony is one of the newer free office productivity suites out there, although the Lotus name itself has a long pedigree. Like OpenOffice.org--a free productivity suite fostered by Sun Microsystems--Lotus Symphony uses the OpenDocument Format (ODF), with reverse-engineered support for Microsoft Office formats, such as doc and xls.
- Google and Salesforce Ratchet Up the CRM Competition
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4/15/2008
In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions. Customers using Salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) solution now have access to the Google Apps office productivity suite within the Salesforce.com platform. The new combined solution is called "Salesforce.com for Google Apps." It's available free to Salesforce.com customers.
- Blackboard Commerce Suite Driving Cashless Campus Transactions
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4/14/2008
Blackboard reported that several colleges and universities in the United States have selected software from its Commerce Suite to address campus commerce and security management. The company said that most of the schools have implemented the Transaction System, which administers online, real-time campus commerce, meal plans, vending, and facility access control through a campus one-card.
