Administrative/Business Tools


BI Today: More than Just a Big, Fat Report

An Oracle VP for education and research explains how real time information, dashboards, and aggregated data make BI in higher education a tool for competitiveness.

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Going Paperless

When Central New Mexico Community College started looking at ways to eradicate paper and better manage its files last year, the institution set its sights on a document imaging solution that would also integrate with its existing SunGard Higher Education Banner Enrollment Management Solution.



Harvard Law School Moves to Agresso SIS

Harvard Law School will be implementing a new student information system from Agresso.

UC Riverside Chats Up Prospective Students

The University of California, Riverside has selected Intelliworks Chat to provide a mechanism for admissions representatives to engage in a live chat with prospects and capture those interactions in the Intelliworks relationship management application.

Missouri State Completes Multi-Year ERP Project

Missouri State University in Springfield has completed a multi-year implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) that began in December 2006.

Eastern Michigan U Streamlines Backup

Eastern Michigan University has upgraded EMC backup equipment in its data center operations with newer EMC gear. The institution is using both Avamar deduplication backup software and Celerra unified storage for daily backups of data maintained by its mission critical applications.

U Toledo Foundation Moves to Agilon for Fundraising

The University of Toledo Foundation in Ohio will be implementing a donor management application from Agilon to replace a RuffaloCODY Ascend fundraising database system that has been in use since 1991.

Oracle Updates PeopleSoft Higher Ed CRM Application

Oracle has updated its institutional customer relationship management software to bolster event management capabilities. PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM release 9.1 for Higher Education also includes improvements in personalized recruiting and a new service center module.

Sacramento State Converts 3 Million Documents

California State University, Sacramento is knee-deep into a multi-million document conversion project.

2 North Carolina Universities Partner on ERP Projects

CIOs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University are teaming up to implement new versions of the human resources and finance components of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.