EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles and Implementation

Holding the World in Your Hand: Creating a Mobile Language Learning Environment

drupal — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:43:12 -0500

In converting from analog to digital, a campus team decided to change the whole language-learning environment.

Working Overseas: Implementing Technology for a Branch Campus in the Middle East

drupal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:22:56 -0500

Establishing IT infrastructure for a branch campus in Qatar offered unique challenges and rewards to a team from Texas A&M University.

ERP Software Implementation Best Practices

drupal — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:31:41 -0500

A survey found similarities and differences in CFOs' and CIOs' perceptions of best practices for ERP implementations

An ERP Implementation and Business Process Reengineering at a Small University

drupal — Mon, 06 May 2002 17:18:08 -0500

Implementing an ERP system teaches small colleges and universities lessons about reengineering business practices.

Building a Personalized Education Portal

drupal — Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:16:50 -0500

The article describes LSU's approach to building enterprise systems solutions that spanned the academic, research, and administrative requirements of the university. PAWS (Personal Access Web Services) offers enterprise, workgroup, and personal services. The article describes PAWS as a portal, its implementation issues, its growth and popularity since it was implemented, and LSU's return on investment. The PAWS application won a 2000 EDUCAUSE Exemplary Practices Award.

Avoiding Problems in Implementing Administrative Systems

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:44:47 -0500

When software implementations go bad, the temptation is to blame the software. Some faults do indeed lie there, but many others lie in our administrative decisions. This Viewpoint article examines four aspects of administrative systems implementations that administrators need to understand to avoid implementation pitfalls.