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Intelliwork's Todd Gibby
NEW INTELLIWORKS CEO. Intelliworks, a provider
of constituent relationship
management (CRM)
solutions for higher ed,
has appointed former
Blackboard executive
Todd Gibby as its new
CEO. Dev Ganesan, who
served as Intelliworks president and
CEO, will now assume the role of company
chairman; Gibby will work closely
with Ganesan and the management
team to launch Orion, a new on-demand
CRM solution for higher ed institutions.
Campus Management's Viki Hucke-McCright
LEARNING CENTER VP. ERP
provider Campus Management has promoted
Viki Hucke-McCright
to VP of the Learning
Center. She will assume
responsibility for the
company’s education
programs for its employees
and end users,
including product and
industry certification programs. Hucke-
McCright has been with Campus Management
for more than 11 years,
having held director-level roles in both
product management and marketing.
Blackbaud's Timothy
Chou
TO BLACKBAUD BOARD. Timothy
Chou, former president of Oracle On
Demand, has joined the
board of directors at
Blackbaud, a provider of
software and services for
nonprofit organizations.
Chou is widely acknowledged
as a pioneer in software on
demand and recently launched the first
class on SaaS (software as a service)
at Stanford University (CA).
:: NEWS
SLIPPERY ROCK U students now can make
contactless payments via mobile phone.
PAYING BY PHONE. Heartland
Payment Systems, a provider of
payment processing and related services,
has been selected by Slippery
Rock University (PA) to enable
contactless payments on campus by
cell phone. This past July, the
school’s 8,500 students, faculty, and
staff received a new official campus
ID card and a separate contactless
token designed for use with their
mobile phones. During the summer,
campus vending machines, laundry
facilities, photocopiers, and printers
were outfitted with dual technology
readers to enable contactless payments
via mobile phone, in addition to the
traditional ID card payments.
TWO-WAY SUPPORT. At the
University of North Carolina-Charlotte, a two-way digital intercom
system from Digital Acoustics has
greatly reduced help desk
response time. The IP-based solution,
installed in 240 classrooms
across the campus, allows Office
of Classroom Support staff to take
care of 90 to 95 percent of support
calls without ever leaving their desks.
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:: M & A, Etc.
GOOGLE TO ACQUIRE
POSTINI. Google has signed a definitive agreement
to acquire Postini, a provider of ondemand
communications security
and compliance solutions. Postini’s
services (such as message security,
archiving, encryption, and policy
enforcement) can be used to protect an
organization’s e-mail, IM, and other
web-based communications.
DISPLAY TECH MERGER.
Visual solutions provider Christie
Digital Systems has acquired Vista Systems, a maker of
video processing systems. The pairing
creates a comprehensive source
for image processing and projection
solutions, combining Vista’s video
switchers and real-time windowing
and composition products with
Christie’s projection systems.
ADDING ASSESSMENT
TOOLS. Thomson Learning, a provider of
customized learning solutions for
higher ed, government agencies, corporations,
and professionals, has
acquired TrueOutcomes, a web-based provider
of universal assessment tools. Thomson
Learning will develop the core
functions of TrueOutcomes to provide
higher ed faculty, administrators, and
students with ready access to data
that demonstrate how student learning
objectives and desired outcomes
are being met at the course, program,
and/or institutional level.
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