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Top-Ten IT Issues, 2008

elilly — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:41:46 -0500

EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the ninth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. This year, Security moves back to the top of the list.

Prodding the ERP Turtle

ckeller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:26:28 -0500

The author discusses the slow pace of changing ERP systems from siloed stores of data to intergrated databases.

From the Bottom Up

ckeller — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:23:56 -0500

The author discusses the changing landscape of enterprise systems on campus.

Current IT Issues: 2004

drupal — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:22:35 -0500

EDUCAUSE presents the findings from its fifth annual Current Issues Survey. For the second year in a row, funding of information technology heads the list of the top-ten issues that IT leaders in higher education see as their most critical challenges.

Make Mine Vanilla

drupal — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:45 -0500

The author discusses results of the ECAR ERP research study.

Enterprise Systems Management

drupal — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:37:42 -0600

This article explains how using an Enterprise Systems Management vendors solves the problem of monitoring many different information systems on a large university network.

Recovering from Software Development

drupal — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:18:21 -0600

During the past decade, many academic institutions have turned to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) to help them develop customized and administrative software packages. This article explores the negative side to such an endeavor and explains why colleges and universities are better off purchasing prewritten software that fits their IT architecture.