Higher Education blog archives
June 2009 (2)
September 2009 (1)
November 2009 (1)
July 2010 (1)
August 2010 (3)
September 2010 (1)
become a CIBER practical innovator
We are always seeking talented and innovative people. We have IT careers open all around the globe.
Integration Dashboard
Chris Couture, Principal Consultant : 02 September 2010 / 8:54 AM : 0 
This post will be short, much like the amount of time it took to build this collaborative Integration Dashboard.
I’ve found that Integration Broker requires a lot of attention, especially when more than two applications are involved and messages route in any number of ways. Any organization still somewhat new to PeopleTools may have some fine tuning on the horizon, but not in effect now, so any stalled message can block up a queue quite quickly.
The Synchronous and Asynchronous monitors will tell what’s happening, but again the administrative user has to navigate to the component(s) in each system. The Integration Dashboard workspace brings some of this info to the surface for a spot-read on broker health.
Tagged: Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 Oracle
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Enterprise Security with Related Content
Chris Couture, Principal Consultant : 17 August 2010 / 2:55 PM : 0
Configuring and maintaining security across numerous PeopleSoft enterprise applications is always a challenge. There's the need to ensure that each user has the appropriate access in each application, without giving away too much or hiding important functionality. There's a need to ensure that synchronizations are working, and troubleshoot those that fail. There's a need to empower varied levels of security "team" members while having oversight on their activities.
A security administrator's work isn't made easier by having three or four different instances of PeopleSoft applications running, either. As a portal consultant I watched security team members grapple with the requests I and others were making. Later, as a security lead, I discovered first-hand how painful securit...
Tagged: Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 Information Security Security consulting Web 2.0
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Use DecisionDirector to Jump Start Your Project
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 16 August 2010 / 1:52 PM : 1
No one plans to fail, some just fail to plan! We have all heard this old adage. It can be no truer than applying it to the large and complex administrative software projects taking place on campuses across the country and around the globe. Colleges and universities are trying to become more “commercialized” and thinking more about the bottom line when approaching these grandiose technology projects. Obtaining true return on technology investments is driving the decisions made on the same campuses that pre-Y2K would have been less scrutinizing in how dollars were spent within IT. The end-users of the technology, the “consumers”, are much more readily engaged and leading the evaluation of how and why to implement a solution. Gone...
Tagged: Business Continuity Business Impact Analysis CIO IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value Oracle Process Improvement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PeopleTools history review and a tip of the hat to a wonderful techie PeopleTools Book - PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips and Techniques by Jim J. Marion, ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166493-6
Mark Sanderson, Consultant Manager : 10 August 2010 / 5:08 PM : 1
For those of us that work on PeopleSoft systems grinding out code everyday, it's been an interesting experience witnessing the transformation of the PeopleTools tool set over the past 15 years. Back in the mid 1990's we had a classical two tier, fat client model that has indeed transformed it's self nicely into a state-of-the-art, web-based, industrial grade development platform that can be very effective at it's intended goals.
In spite of this steady progression towards a full featured, object oriented development platform, one of the significant challenges over the years has been learning how to best take advantage of this proprietary development environment. If it was the java or C language, we could simply go to our nearest bookseller and find an abundance of high quality b...
Tagged: Campus Solutions Oracle Skill Development
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Getting Started with Collaboration
Chris Couture, Principal Consultant : 22 July 2010 / 11:18 AM : 0
Welcome to Web 2.0. Just when you’ve seen the final “click here” hyperlink cleaned off the department’s web site, your boss rushes in, going on about great new things he read on a blog. His excitement peaks as your adrenalin level spikes – you’ve just heard “…collaboration…”, plus “…new software…” and “…you!”
Relax! Whether you’re aware or not, you collaborate every day. Adding technology to the mix, be it a new ERP collaboration suite or Google Docs – can make collaboration much more effective. As with many new initiatives, the chosen approach truly makes the difference between failure and success. Pursuits of simple, quick successes give you and your team good experience and set the course for continued collaborative effectiveness.
Here’s one way to g...
Tagged: ERP IT Strategy Collaboration Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 present and that Enterprise Knowledge Management cannot exist without Personal Knowledge Management.
Knowledge management is increas...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Business Impact Analysis Business Value Campus Solutions Enterprise Integration Higher Education IT Planning IT Strategy Knowledge Management Project Management Student Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 10-15 years. But there are still a lot of those that need to make the move. Those yet to make the change have not been idly sitting on the sidelines...
Tagged: Business Value Campus Solutions CIO ERP IT Planning IT Value Project Management Stimulus Funding Student Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 be excused from class, or simply grateful to have made it to their junior or senior year. Unfortunately, at large college fairs, they often find tha...
Tagged: Business Impact Analysis Campus Solutions Higher Education Information Management Interface Design Oracle Student Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 ‘added value’. The tougher added value we try to make our own is the personal commitment to the extra time we spend keeping up with outside influe...
Tagged: Campus Solutions CRM ERP Higher Education Knowledge Management Oracle Spring
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|
|
