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Technology Funding Through the Department of Education
Ron Gaskins, Director of Higher Education Strategy : 27 January 2010 / 1:44 PM : 1 
A recent article in Campus Technology featured Mount Ida College and $2.1 million in three grants received by the four year, independent institution in Newton, MA. Most significant of the three was a $1.72 million Title III grant from the Department of Education through the Strengthening Institutions Programs. David Healy, Vice President for Finance and Administration at Mount Ida, states that the funding will be used to bring the college into a new millennium through enhancements to the technological infrastructure and implementation of a...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting ARRA Business Intelligence Higher Education Information Management Stimulus Funding Student Records/Registration Student Systems
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CRM 9.1 Events Management Includes Needed Business Processes
Ron Gaskins, Director of Higher Education Strategy : 03 December 2009 / 1:50 PM : 0
During Oracle Open World I attended several sessions on the Oracle CRM 9.1 release. I was impressed with the enhancements in all modules but the one that really caught my attention was Events Management.
Vendors have provided constituent relations solutions in many different colors and flavors over the years. But...comprehensive, enterprise wide event management functionality has always been lacking. Management of events has been a labor intensive, expensive and complex activity in higher education. Even after allocation of institutional resources the results often did not meet desired expectations. And what is...
Tagged: CRM Enterprise Integration Higher Education Social Networking
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Is Knowledge Management the key?
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 05 November 2009 / 5:15 AM : 2
There are two types of knowledge management often being discussed, Personal Knowledge Management and Enterprise Knowledge Management. In simple, digestible terms, Personal Knowledge Management refers to the personal responsibility to share, to learn, connect and share personal insights. Enterprise Knowledge Management is an organization’s concern with strategy, process and technologies to acquire, store, share and secure organizational understanding, insights and core distinctions and is closely tied to competitive advantage, innovation and agility. Can we afford either of these to be absent? I propose that they both must be...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Business Impact Analysis Business Value Campus Solutions Enterprise Integration Higher Education IT Planning IT Strategy Knowledge Management Project Management Student Systems
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Going Green - Beverage Containers made from Corn…
Ron Gaskins, Director of Higher Education Strategy : 26 October 2009 / 1:33 PM : 0
Beverage Containers made from Corn???
While in Boulder, CO recently I had lunch at great eatery, Snarf’s Sub Shop. The most interesting part of the visit was the beverage container. Printed on the side was “Made from Corn.” When I think of corn, things like popcorn, corndogs, corn fritters, Beaufort Boil and other come to mind. Ethanol and now beverage containers…what next?
The beverage containers at Oracle Open World a couple of weeks ago were made totally from vegetables.
If one stops and thinks of the vast quantity of beverage cups that are consumed on a d...
Tagged: Business Value Going Green
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The Dilemma: University Project Priorities Vs University Budget Cuts – The Solution: Stimulus Funds
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 09 September 2009 / 8:59 AM : 0
Higher education is certainly not immune to the burdens of adapting to the rapid pace of technological change. This, however, is hardly a new phenomenon. The rate of change has been increasing for decades and the demands of the customers that IT must support are growing almost as quickly. So, with all of this change ever constant and all around us, I am amazed each year at the number of colleges and universities that have managed to operate on legacy administrative systems that are several decades old. Suffice it to say, a majority of colleges and universities have made the leap to new enterprise-wide systems in the last 10-...
Tagged: Business Value Campus Solutions CIO ERP IT Planning IT Value Project Management Stimulus Funding Student Systems
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Navigating 'The Great Stimilus Package Road Race'…Where Is The Arra GPS?
Ron Gaskins, Director of Higher Education Strategy : 08 September 2009 / 12:06 PM : 0
Do you have the GPS? If you do, I am sure your colleagues will appreciate your willingness to share. I know for certain, I would.
It is obvious that the “ARRA road course” is still being built, informational and direction signs aren't quite ready and there are hazards and perils to be dealt with along the way such as accountability and transparency.
My first attempt at becoming knowledgeable about “the course” was to use a search engine. In February, Jessica Renee Napier of Converge Magazine reported that if you search the words “stimulus package” and “education” the result will be more than 14 millio...
Tagged: Social Networking Stimulus Funding
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Oracle's Building Blocks to the Next Generation of Applications
Scott Hanson, Vice President of Alliances and Strategic Business Development : 31 August 2009 / 1:10 PM : 1 
Oracle’s Campus Solutions feature pack 1 was recently released. This is the first feature pack release of the new continuous release strategy announced by Oracle earlier this year. Feature packs represent bundled features and enhancements for specific components of the application. New feature packs are targeted to be released about every 5 months or so and allow Oracle to deliver functionality and enhancements to market faster and with less impact than the typical larger upgrade cycles.
This first feature pack was released with the notion of “it’s all about the constituent” featuring web services capabilities ...
Tagged: Campus Solution Feature Pack Campus Solutions Enterprise Integration Higher Education IT Planning Student Systems
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Best Practices in Higher Education - CIBER Sponors edu1world Community
Ron Gaskins, Director of Higher Education Strategy : 20 August 2009 / 1:14 PM : 0
CIBER’s Higher Education Practice, in cooperation with The Tambellini Group, is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a "Best Practices Community" through www.edu1world.org.
The "Best Practice Community" discussion topics will span the spectrum of higher education issues. Your knowledge, leadership and active participation will make an enormous difference to your peers globally.
CIBER invites you to join this online community today. Membership for faculty and staff of institutions of higher education is being provided by CIBER, I...
Tagged: Business Architecture Business Continuity Business Impact Analysis Business Intelligence CRM Data Architecture Data Modeling Disaster Recovery DW / BI Architecture Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Integration ERP Higher Education Hosting Identity and Access Management Information Management Information Security Intrusion detection IT Planning IT Strategy Project Management Project Methodology Risk management Security Breaches Security Trends SOA & Data Architecture Social Networking Student Systems Technology Architecture Twitter
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Technology Will Change the College Fair Experience
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 25 June 2009 / 4:11 PM : 1
The college fair is an experience dreaded by some admission professionals, but one that most talented high school students look forward to. For the college admissions counselor, it can be a long tiring day or night spent standing behind a marketing display repeating the same institutional facts, collecting contact cards from students who stop by their table, and long nights helping the staff back at the institution enter the contact information into the prospect system to ensure that prospective students receive more information in a timely manner. For the student, however, the event quite often is a welcome experience. Students may ...
Tagged: Business Impact Analysis Campus Solutions Higher Education Information Management Interface Design Oracle Student Systems
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CIBER Consultants Are The Added Value
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 03 June 2009 / 3:46 PM : 0
Tough Times Never Last…..
But tough people do…..as the saying goes. So, how do we outlast the tough times? One way is to reach down and recommit ourselves to the concept that our true strength does not necessarily lie in our processes or procedures but in ourselves. People are the difference. And what makes us the difference is our belief that we ourselves bring added value to the table every time we interact with the client. Many times we are able to define ‘added value’ as the varied experiences we have had or the creative juices that flowed within a team that addressed a set of unique challenges. That’s easy...
Tagged: Campus Solutions CRM ERP Higher Education Knowledge Management Oracle Spring
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