Administrative/Business Apps

Collaboration and Education Expand SAP Business Process Expert Community

5/22/2008

SAP announced new incentives for their Business Process Expert community at SAPPHIRE 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Read More

Cognos Forges Alliances To Fuel Growth

5/20/2008

Cognos, an IBM company, announced last week that it is aggressively pursuing emerging partnership opportunities in financial services, public sector, retail, and life science, among others. Read More

Napersoft, Dayhuff Group Simplify CCM

5/20/2008

In an announcement Wednesday, Customer Communications Management (CCM) solutions provider Napersoft Inc. confirmed a partnership with Dayhuff Group LLC. Read More

Mainline Overhauls Tallahassee CC Infrastructure for IBM

5/1/2008

Tallahassee Community College in Florida has revamped its administrative infrastructure, switching over to IBM software, servers, and storage systems, according to information provided to us by IBM. Mainline Information Systems, an IBM partner, worked with IBM and the college on the implementation. Read More

Classroom and Community Intersect in Workflow Management

4/30/2008

Integrating the classroom with the community to give students hands-on experience is a laudable goal, but not always easy to do. At the University of Arizona, J. Leon Zhao's upper-level and graduate business students gain an understanding of workflow management software and business applications through real projects in the surrounding business community in Tucson. Read More

Northwestern U Puts Kronos Workforce Central To Work

4/21/2008

Northwestern University has selected the Workforce Central suite from Kronos to manage employee hours and costs. Like many universities, the school has a complex workforce that includes a large number of student employees working at its campuses in Chicago and Evanston, IL. The software will also track absenteeism for the university's 10,000-plus employees, including absences that qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Read More

Michigan State University Automates Capital Project Management

4/21/2008

Michigan State University (MSU) has implemented with a new internal capital project management application. Skire Unifier provides collaboration mechanisms and control and visibility into individual capital projects and across a school's project and facilities portfolio. MSU eventually intends to extend the implementation to its IT and facilities management organizations in subsequent phases of the deployment. Read More

Brigham Young University in Idaho Moves to Jenzabar for ERP

4/17/2008

Brigham Young University - Idaho (BYU - Idaho) has selected Jenzabar's Total Campus Management enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The suite the school will use includes Jenzabar CX, Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution (JICS) and the Jenzabar Non-Traditional System (Jenzabar NTS). Read More

Blackboard Commerce Suite Driving Cashless Campus Transactions

4/14/2008

Blackboard reported that several colleges and universities in the United States have selected software from its Commerce Suite to address campus commerce and security management. The company said that most of the schools have implemented the Transaction System, which administers online, real-time campus commerce, meal plans, vending, and facility access control through a campus one-card. Read More

Data Mining at UCF Helps Measure Goals Against Booming Growth

4/3/2008

Rapid enrollment growth is great, but can bring its own set of challenges. Ask administrators at the University of Central Florida, one of the fastest-growing universities in the country. With 46,000-plus students, the university has seen enrollment jump 35 percent in 10 years. Read More