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Corporate Presentations

Datatel, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner - Building and Managing the Academic Enterprise

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Abstract

Managing the academic enterprise is becoming a profound challenge, increasing in complexity and requiring innovative approaches. This presentation explores new concepts, tools, models, and processes that are required to confront the challenges, including curriculum architecture, managing the margin, being learner-centered, and integrating curriculum and learner assessments.

SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner - Banner Enrollment Management: It’s All About Connecting

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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In this session you will learn how to deliver a best-practice approach to managing lifelong relationships with your constituents. With SunGard Higher Education's Banner Enrollment Management Suite you can deliver dynamic, personalized experiences to your education community and assess those relationship-building efforts to improve institutional accountability, productivity, and performance.

Campus Management Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner - Finding New Revenue Streams with Nontraditional Programs and Students

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Increasing expenses, declining revenues, and budget constraints are forcing more institutions to revisit their goals and strategies. Attend this session to learn how institutions can use existing resources to offer nontraditional programs, attract nontraditional students, launch distance education programs, and increase revenues. A panel of higher education institutions will share strategies for achieving growth and revenue from divisions tied to traditional institutions and programs.

Jenzabar Inc., An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner - Hitting It Out of the Park: Constituent Satisfaction, Operational Excellence, and ERA Success

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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In higher education, ERA isn’t about baseball—it’s about enrollment, retention, and advancement. Through partnership with customers, we’ve learned that ERA success depends on the right technology, strategies, and services. Jenzabar Chairman and CEO Robert A. Maginn and client panelists reveal the secret to delivering great constituent service, cutting costs, and boosting revenue.

Microsoft Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - The Services Transformation in Higher Education--Microsoft’s Roadmap

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
2:15 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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A significant trend in higher education IT is a move toward services. Universities worldwide are hosting campus e-mail and a suite of Web-based services on Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform. This session presents Microsoft’s roadmap and new announcements, bringing together a panel of IT leaders to discuss the impact on their campuses.

Oracle Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Solutions and Strategies for the Student and the Enterprise

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
2:15 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Schools are now taking an enterprise-wide approach to information and identity management. Priorities include student and faculty performance and integrated data security. Understand currently deployable standards-based solutions that provide insight around the student and enable informed decisions in a secure environment. Learn our strategies around student administration solutions, service-oriented architectures, and securing sensitive information.

CDW Government, Inc. - IT Myth Busters: Protecting and Securing the Campus Network Is Impossible

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
3:50 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Join CDW-G to discover if this myth is plausible or busted. This session includes the findings of the third annual IT Security Report Card and a panel discussion of institutions’ biggest security challenges, as well as security best practices.

SAP Public Services. An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Governance, Risk, and Compliance Trends and Techniques in Higher Education

Session Details

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
3:50 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Hear how some institutions view compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and how Baylor College of Medicine has used the SAP Virsa Compliance application. Learn about additional compliance software that is available for users of any ERP system.

Available Resources

More Information

For more information, see:

http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/GovernanceRiskandCom/45576

Adobe Systems, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner - Web 2.0 in Education—The Emergence of Rich Internet Applications

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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In a world of information overload, institutions struggle to engage their communities online in a meaningful way. They are turning to Web designers and developers who can create engaging, cross-platform, rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe will address the latest trends in RIA development and discuss how its rich client technologies, including Flash and Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR), are leading the RIA movement.

Avaya Inc., An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner - Intelligent Communications Enable the "Student for Life"

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Communications technology can help differentiate your campus not only in serving current students but also in creating a sense of life-long community so that generation after generation of families keep coming back. Hear from one campus using intelligent communications today to make a difference.

Available Resources

More Information

For more information, see:

http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/IntelligentCommunica/45478

Blackboard Inc., An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Announcing Blackboard’s K–20 Initiative

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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This session will introduce Blackboard’s approach to connecting secondary school outcomes with changing college and university needs and workplace requirements. We will share K–20 practitioners’ best practices and common approaches to addressing the challenges facing new learners in a new century.

IBM Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Empowering Education with Virtualization

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
11:45 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Is your institution dealing with student computing complexity? With IBM Virtualization solutions, educational institutions can deliver virtual clients to users with single-point, secure, consistent access to required applications from almost any device with an Internet connection while simplifying management and support. Learn about virtual client delivery through server-based virtualization during this presentation.

Apple, Inc. - Apple in Higher Education

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Learn how the integration of iTunes U, content, and mobile devices enable innovative teaching, learning, and research opportunities for faculty and students.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Emerging Education Technology

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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We are currently in the participation age, and terms such as Web 2.0 are used to describe new Internet applications and social networking capabilities. Is there an analogue to Education 2.0? What are the implications? Sun Microsystems gives a perspective on some of these issues, the business of education, and areas of innovation.

Cognos Corporation, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Performance Management: The Key to the Future of Your Data

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:55 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Is your data locked up? With performance management, learn how to spend less time unlocking your data and more time analyzing it. In this session Long Beach City College will cover a unique perspective on choosing, implementing, and using a performance management solution. The session will include demos on both enterprise planning and business intelligence solutions.

Mirapoint, An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner - Multipoint or Mirapoint: An E-Mail Simplification Strategy

Session Details

Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:55 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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As spam, viruses, and malware threaten e-mail networks, many organizations have deployed point solutions to manage these first-generation problems. Archiving, compliance, and storage represent the next set of challenges for e-mail management. Learn how appliance-based messaging systems circumvent these multifaceted problems and the complexity caused by point solutions.

BearingPoint, Inc. - CRM/Student Applications in Small- and Mid-Sized Selective Institutions

Session Details

Friday, October 26, 2007
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Room 206

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a highly select liberal arts institution in Seneca, New York, is integrating CRM and student software to support recruiting. HWS and BearingPoint project team members will describe project objectives, challenges and achievements, and benefits this integrated solution provides to this institution of 2,000 students.

Decision Academic, Inc. - Multicampus Online Learning Technology Platforms

Session Details

Friday, October 26, 2007
8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Decision Academic's eCampus Navigator product, designed specifically for distributed learning environments, uses the AMANDA.edu architecture to provide data, application, presentation, and utility services required to manage a diverse multiprovider environment. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate AMANDA.edu as a rapid-development platform for highly configurable, interoperable Web applications for higher education.

Cisco Systems, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner - Improving Campus Safety

Session Details

Friday, October 26, 2007
9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Room 211

Session Type: Corporate Presentation

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Maintaining a safe, secure environment is a top priority for every college and university, but this can be a challenge given the open and accessible nature of most campuses. Effective and efficient communication is key, both on campus and with the local community. This presentation looks at ways in which the existing campus network infrastructure can be leveraged to help with prevention, deterrence, detection, and response.