Administrative/Business Apps
- Roanoke College Gets Personal with CRM
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8/6/2008
Roanoke College has selected Talisma's Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solution to personalize constituent communications in an effort to increase enrollment and forge stronger relations with current students.
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges Wrap First Phase of CRM Implementation
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8/6/2008
Consulting firm BearingPoint said it has completed the first phase of an implementation of the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM for Higher Education for the Admissions Office at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
- Universities in Indiana, North Dakota, New York Deploy Oracle Software
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8/4/2008
Four institutions of higher education--Anderson University, the North Dakota University System, Indiana University, and City University of New York--have gone public with their deployments of software from Oracle. They're among 13 colleges and universities that have recently implemented or selected applications from the vendor.
- Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Heart?
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8/1/2008
Microsoft's open source outreach effort, which started just a few years ago, isn't dead on arrival, if you hear Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, talk about it. Rather, it's coming alive.
- Bentley College Deploys Infor Software to Help Reduce Energy Consumption
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7/31/2008
Bentley College of Waltham, MA is deploying Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition software to monitor and reduce energy consumption throughout its campus. The school currently runs Infor's EAM Enterprise Edition, which monitors the maintenance and repair of the college's assets.
- Enterprise Adoption of Vista at 'Single Digits,' Report Says
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7/31/2008
The Windows Vista operating system has been "rejected," or is not widely adopted in the enterprise segment, according to a Forrester Research report released last Wednesday that describes enterprise software adoption trends for the desktop.
- Tacoma CC Bolstering Recruitment Efforts with Azorus CRM Software
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7/30/2008
Tacoma Community College in Washington State said it will be deploying customer relationship management software from Azorus to track and manage potential students from the initial point of contact through enrollment.
- Purdue U Signs On for Web-based Student Organization Management
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7/29/2008
Purdue University has selected StudentLink from CollegiateLink to manage its 840 student clubs, organizations, and fraternities and sororities. StudentLink will allow individual organizations at the 39,000-student university to conduct online surveys and elections, recruit new members, manage membership lists, and plan events.
- U Kentucky Re-Enrolls 200 Students Identified through Hobsons Retention Service
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7/28/2008
When University of Kentucky (UK) administrators implemented Hobsons Student Retention Solutions last semester, they didn't foresee the re-enrollment of 200 former students, potentially equating to more than $1 million in tuition returns.
- Sacramento State Admissions Stays in 'High Touch' with Constituents via CRM
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7/25/2008
The Executive MBA program at the California State University, Sacramento said it has dramatically improved its constituent relationship management processes since implementing Intelliworks CRM last January to track its sales cycles and manage prospects. Formerly, the small admissions department, which also handles admissions for the institution's master's programs in accountancy and advanced business studies, had been managing contacts through a spreadsheet. Communications weren't being tracked at all.
- Mercyhurst College To Reach Out with CRM
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7/23/2008
Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA will be implementing customer relationship management (CRM) and digital recruiting tools from Azorus. Mercyhurst, with about 3,000 students, is the first institution to use the Digital Recruit solution in the United States. The service optimizes recruiting efforts by delivering personalized communications to students interested in attending the college.
- Starfish Launches Higher Ed Retention Solution
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7/17/2008
Software provider Starfish Retention Solutions has announced the upcoming launch of its first product, Starfish Office Hours. The company said this will be the first in a series of products intended to help higher education institutions improve retention and graduation rates by aiding in the delivery of programs designed to help at-risk student populations.
- Web Conferencing Cuts Costs for California Community College System
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7/16/2008
With 2.5 million students and 75,000 faculty, the California Community College system has considerable shopping clout with vendors. Using those numbers to its advantage, the CCC has created an immense and cost-effective state-wide Web conferencing system for its 109 member colleges.
- Jenzabar Highlights New Strategy for Campus Administrative Systems
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7/16/2008
Administrative software provider Jenzabar has announced a new direction for its Jenzabar EX suite of business office applications for higher education. Additions to the platform will include a budget module and an enhanced purchasing module, as well as integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
- St. Francis Xavier U Tackles Recruitment with CRM
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7/15/2008
Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University is acquiring the Azorus CRM suite after working with the company's Digital Recruit system for the last year. With Digital Recruit, students at recruiting events fill out a special form with a digital pen that captures the information being written. Recruiters then upload the data stored on the pen to the CRM system, which initiates a communication plan for the student, including an automatic welcome e-mail message.
- Mercer U Renovates Administrative Systems
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7/15/2008
Mercer University will be deploying Campus Management's suite, One Campus Ecosystem. Mercer's implementation of the new system is expected to take 18 months or less and will include all of the vendor's software systems, including the student information system, Web portals, finance and human resources, application programming interfaces, and business intelligence software.
- Pingleton Named CLO at University HealthSystem Consortium
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7/9/2008
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a group of 102 academic medical centers, has named Susan K. Pingleton its chief learning officer, a newly created position for overseeing education initiatives and programs.
- Moraine Valley CC Revamps Administrative Systems
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7/3/2008
Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois has selected Datatel Colleague and ActiveCampus Portal software to replace a legacy administration system. A committee consisting of campus-wide representatives chose Datatel after an 18-month evaluation of administrative software systems.
- Automation Chimera: Education Is Not Management
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7/2/2008
The lure of automating workflow online so human intervention is minimized is continually reinforced in the minds of higher education administrators by examples of automated campus systems such as financials, student information systems, and other enterprise systems. But what's good for management is not always good for learning.
- Cognos Releases BI Software for Linux-based IBM System z Mainframe
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7/2/2008
Cognos, which IBM acquired in January, has released an update to its business intelligence software that will run on the Linux operating system on IBM System z mainframes. IBM Cognos 8 BI was being developed by the two companies prior to the acquisition, but assimilation of Cognos into IBM accelerated development.
- eBureau, Datamark Partner for Enrollment Predictive Modeling
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6/27/2008
Information solutions provider eBureau and direct response advertising agency Datamark have announced a strategic partnership to use predictive modeling to evaluate online leads purchased by Datamark on behalf of its education clientele.
- TopSchool Updates Student Lifecycle Management Suite
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6/27/2008
TopSchool this week released TopSchool SLM 2.0, an update to the company's student lifecycle management and student information system for small to mid-size colleges and universities.
- Adobe Releases Acrobat 9, Creative Suite 3.3
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6/25/2008
Adobe has now released Acrobat 9, announced earlier this month, along with an updated Creative Suite (version 3.3), which incorporates Acrobat 9 Pro software. The new version expands functionality for students in the areas of collaboration and the creation of electronic portfolios.
- Job Scheduling Software Smoothes Data Transfers at IUF
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6/19/2008
Scheduling when various software applications on your campus should exchange data among themselves might not seem like the most glamorous of needs, but it's essential--and can waste large amounts of IT time and resources when it has to be done by hand.
- Loyola, NOBTS Use Tech To Return to Pre-Katrina Numbers
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6/18/2008
A huge increase in freshman enrollment numbers for the fall semester has Loyola University in New Orleans pleased with its efforts to rebuild its student body after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is also looking at strong enrollment numbers, three years after the hurricane and its aftermath of flooding devastated New Orleans.
