Administrative/Business Apps

Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management

5/29/2008

Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009. Read More

Microsoft Dynamics Helps Education Consulting Firm Prepare for Growth

5/23/2008

In an announcement Tuesday, Microsoft said Pacific Northwest Publishing and its affiliate, Safe & Civil Schools, have chosen Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 to integrate their accounting, customer service, marketing, and scheduling capabilities. Read More

Windsor Lands Multi-District ERP Contracts

5/23/2008

Windsor Management, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has landed contracts with several school districts, including districts in Arizona, Illinois, and Colorado, to deploy its Infinite Visions ERP software. Read More

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