Administrative/Business Apps

Salisbury, Central Washington, Florida State Deploy Oracle Apps

4/2/2008

A number of campuses have gone public about upgrades of their PeopleSoft and Oracle applications. Read More

SAS Opens Up SAS OnDemand for Academics

3/18/2008

SAS has broadened the availability of SAS OnDemand for Academics, a service that allows faculty and students to integrate advanced data analysis in their teaching and learning activities. Users register for the service, download a SAS software application via the Web, and then perform processing by connecting to a hosted server at SAS. Read More

Electronic Transcripts at the Tipping Point

3/13/2008

In an age of electronic information, it seems obvious--exchange student transcripts electronically, thereby cutting costs, speeding the process, and making fraud more difficult. But in a process that has taken many years, student transcripts are just now being pushed and pulled into the 21st century. Often on a state-by-state basis, high schools and colleges are gradually adopting technologies to allow them to exchange transcripts electronically. Read More

Texas University Adopts SaaS for Admissions Management

2/21/2008

Concordia University Texas is working with Intelliworks' Orion software service to manage its admissions programs. Concordia said it plans to use the solution to manage online event registration and prospect inquiries, track interactions with prospective students, and create targeted e-mail marketing campaigns. Read More

Ingres and Pentaho Partner on Open Source BI

2/21/2008

Ingres Corp. and Pentaho Corp. formed a partnership this month to address market demands for open source business intelligence (BI) products and services. Read More

Mount Mercy College Bolsters Executive Management with ERP Solution

2/12/2008

Iowa's Mount Mercy College has selected an integrated suite from SunGard as its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. In a recent statement, the campus said it will deploy SunGard's PowerCAMPUS Unified Digital Campus (UDC) to help it achieve its vision of becoming a university by 2015. Read More