Enterprise Resource Planning

This hour and seventeen minute podcast features a panel discussion from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Enterprise Conference in Chicago. This lively discussion, "Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?," includes:

This 55 minute podcast features a keynote address from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Enterprise Conference. The speech, "The "Greening" of Information Technology," is by EDUCAUSE President and CEO, Diana Oblinger.

The environment is the largest enterprise system of all, and one that is impacted by information technology. As "green" initiatives and sustainability become a greater part of our consciousness, "green computing" will receive increasing focus in higher education. This presentation explores sustainability, energy use, and "reduce, reuse, and recycle" programs.

How can we fully exploit information technology's potential to advance the institutional mission? Answers to this challenging question will be the focus of EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information & Technology Conference 2008, May 28–29 in Chicago, Illinois, a small, specialized event for leaders and managers of administrative and enterprise IT units within higher education. Registration is now open.

In this 14 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Steve Wheat and Tod Jackson, both Enterprise Architects for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Founders of the OpenEAI Project.

The purpose of the OpenEAI Project is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations. We suggest you read the OpenEAI Overview for additional background on enterprise application integration (EAI). The OpenEAI Project is comprised of six distinct, but closely-related departments, which address OpenEAI Methodology, Application Foundation APIs, Message Object API, Message Definitions, Reference Implementations, and Deployment and Administration.

The call for proposals is now open for the Enterprise Information and Technology Conference 2008, a small-scale event ideal for making contacts with peers, engaging in discussion, and discovering new strategies and solutions for dealing with challenges facing those involved in administrative and enterprise information systems and their related technologies. The conference will be held May 28–29 in Chicago, Illinois. The program will follow these tracks:

• Demonstrating the Increasing Value of IT
• Infrastructure Evolution
• Services Evolution
• Systems Evolution

Submit a presentation proposal. The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2008.