EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and ERP Systems

Enterprise Systems: Risky Business?

drupal — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:48:03 -0600

ERP software partnerships are essential to operating most campuses today. The risk of relying on those partners is real, but it can be managed.

Community Source Springs Forth

drupal — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:36:32 -0500

Implementing new administrative systems software takes time, but support for community source projects is gaining ground.

Business Intelligence Technology: SuperData

drupal — Tue, 17 May 2005 16:16:28 -0500

"As ERP systems spark a deluge of data on campuses nationwide, savvy schools are turning to business intelligence software to make sense of it all."

Oracle buys PeopleSoft for $10 billion

drupal — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:36:36 -0600

After 18 months of wrangling, legal actions, and regulatory review, the PeopleSoft Board of Directors has approved a buyout offer from Oracle.The deal is valued at about $10.3 billion, or $26.50 per share, despite Oracle's insistence that $24 per share was its best offer. The higher price came after Oracle executives gained access to PeopleSoft's financial statements and determined the target company was more profitable than Oracle's earlier estimates. Oracle has promised strong support for current PeopleSoft customers, as well as those of J.D.Edwards, which PeopleSoft acquired during the takeover efforts by Oracle. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said development teams from both PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards would be retained and would operate independently. Ellison said updates to applications from both companies would be developed in the next year or two. Pending legal action over the merger will be suspended until the transaction is completed, at which point litigation will be dismissed. The deal is expected to close at the end of January 2005.

Making Enterprise Systems Work for Everyone

drupal — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:03:34 -0500

The author discusses the important factors and steps involved when making the decision to implement an extensive enterprise system on campus. Find out what your university should be considering before its next large-scale IT project.

Understanding Integration: What does systems integration really mean for higher education?

drupal — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:42:34 -0500

The author discusses the integration of enterprise systems at higher education institutions and the importance of that integration for IT leadership. This article was originally written for the SCT EdLine News newsletter, May/June 2003.

Dakota State U. Sells Access to Its PeopleSoft Installation for Other Colleges' Classes

drupal — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:50:48 -0600

Dakota State University has installed PeopleSoft's complex administrative software -- not to run the business side of the university, but to teach courses in business and information systems. The university has even gone a step further and set up a large server on its Madison, S.D., campus so that other colleges can use the software in their own classrooms, over the Internet.

Intractable ERP: a comprehensive analysis of failed enterprise-resource-planning projects

drupal — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:12:34 -0600

This study takes a close look at four ERP-implementation failures, all of which occurred recently in American industry. It analyses possible causes that led to the disasters, and suggests software-engineering processes that help avoiding such outcomes.

ERP and ASPs for Higher Education

drupal — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:12:02 -0600

An overview of the ERP and ASP higher education landscape today. This paper is from the Gartner Group Gartner Symposium ITExpo 2002, San Diego.