Campus Technology

Hear how Stanford University has shortened its budgeting and planning cycles and consolidated budget information so departments can more quickly produce rolling forecasts, adjust remaining budgets, quickly identify and analyze variances, and show historical progression and trending. Learn how Stanford rolled out the Hyperion solution for more accurate reporting and strategic decision-making across all departments in the institution.

Learn how West Virginia University's Administrative Technology Solutions team adopted SOA as a tool to facilitate the development of an employee "Time Management and Leave Request" application. This application, has been designed to extend functionality of the base Oracle e-Business suite to bring greater functionality to the employees as well as meet specific Higher Education business requirements.

In this session, Bellevue University reveals how moving to Oracle On Demand for their PeopleSoft Enterprise applications enabled them to reduce operational risks, lower TCO and free up IT resources to focus on their core mission and strategies for delivering education.

In a bid to attract more developers to its Berkeley DB open-source embeddable database, Oracle this week released two upgraded versions with new APIs for simplifying application development and, for the first time, support for Microsoft's C# and .NET Framework. read more...

Oracle this week filled a gap in its management platform adding application configuration tools that the company said will help organizations improve app service levels and help apply frameworks for compliance. read more...