C-Level View :: June 14, 2006

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Executive View

Business Intelligence Solutions Enable Data-Driven, Strategic Decision-Making

By Michael Hites, New Mexico State University (NM)

Anyone who has developed a comprehensive strategic plan knows that it is a time-consuming process that requires the input of many people. However, the process is merely basic training when compared to undertaking the implementation of enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. Implementing business intelligence solutions – and fostering the necessary accompanying cultural change – is a lengthy, yet necessary and satisfying experience...

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Worth Noting

OCW Tool for Sakai Under Development

One of the long-term goals of MIT’s (MA) ambitious OpenCourseWare (OCW) project is to encourage other institutions to follow the model of sharing course materials openly on the Web. Sharing may soon get a little easier...

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Real-Time Paleontology

Ozarks Technical Community College (MO) and MOREnet, the Missouri Research and Educational Network, are digging deeper into the application of video conferencing to learning and research. They’ve installed 1,600 feet of armored direct burial fiber optic cable into Riverbluff Cave in southwest Missouri...

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From the Personnel Office

Sakai Foundation Names Executive Director

During this year’s Community Source Week – a week of conferences on open source co-located in Vancouver BC, including Sakai, OSP, and uPortal – the Sakai Foundation Board announced that University of Michigan (MI) software architect and high performance computing researcher Charles Severance will become the foundation’s executive director...

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