Administrative/Business Apps

CoSN Details Changes to E-Mail Regulations, Calls for 'Comprehensive Solution'

7/1/2008

What's the difference between Open Records and eDiscovery? With changes in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, what does e-mail compliance mean these days, and how do schools achieve it? The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), an education technology advocacy group, is attempting to answer these questions with a new white paper called "School Districts, Data Retention and Federal eDiscovery Rules: The Case for a Full E-mail Archiving Solution Now." Read More

eBureau, Datamark Partner for Enrollment Predictive Modeling

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. Read More

Tyler Technologies Closes Deal with Fort Worth ISD

6/20/2008

Tyler Technologies reported this week it has signed a contract with Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) worth more than $4.7 million. Read More

DynTek Moves Suffolk County District to Virtualized Infrastructure

6/9/2008

Center Moriches School District in New York has revamped its infrastructure and adopted a new technology delivery model, opting to virtualize its servers and deploy a Citrix Application Delivery solution. The overhaul was handled by technology services provider DynTek. Read More

Texas District Deploys Barix Extreamer for Audio over IP

6/9/2008

Franklin Independent School District (ISD) in Franklin, TX has begun using Barix AG Exstreamer 100 Audio over IP decoding devices for school-wide voice, music, and bell-tone distribution in two schools. The solution provides administrators and teachers with a control system that interfaces with audio and video devices in the schools. Read More

Missouri Approves Electronic Transcripts for A+ Schools

6/5/2008

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education this week approved the use of the Connect! platform from ConnectEDU to deliver electronic transcripts to colleges from its A+ designated schools. There are more than 250 A+ designated schools in Missouri. Read More

Tech-Ed: Gates' Farewell to Developers Focuses on Silverlight, Velocity, Oslo

6/3/2008

In what will likely be remembered as his send-off to developers, Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates today kicked off the annual Tech-Ed Conference with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back on past accomplishments and provide a glimpse into the future of Microsoft technologies. Read More

Cerritos College PeopleSoft Upgrade Comes in on Time and Budget

6/2/2008

Norwalk, CA-based Cerritos College said it has completed a major IT system upgrade--on time and under budget--after partnering with Ciber Enterprise Solutions. Read More

St. John's U Outsources Admissions Document Management to DataBank

6/2/2008

Following on a business process management analysis across multiple school operations, Queens, NY-based St. John's University has decided to outsource its admissions application process to DataBank, a service provider that performs document scanning and management. The school was compelled to find an outside vendor after experiencing a 65 percent increase in admissions applications over a five-year period. Read More

GroundWork Signs Universities for Open Source Monitoring

5/29/2008

With open source a large and growing facet of IT in higher education, a number of universities are signing on for third-party support services aimed at implementing, maintaining, managing, and monitoring OSS deployments. Read More