Higher Education blog archives
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CIBER's Higher Education Practice will see you at AACRAO!
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 01 March 2011 / 9:57 AM : 0 
This is about the time of the year where I stand and stare at my closets at home, start looking around the house and planning my attack of the ‘Spring Clean” I usually aspire to each year. Every week, I say to myself, “I want to start but I have so much to do, where do I begin?” It was also this time of year, when I worked on a university campus, in the height of admissions processing, that I would think of all the ways I would like to improve processes or the operation as a whole for the next cycle. Even though the solutions seemed within reach, many times resources were tight, time was short and competing priorities made decisi on making difficult. This would have been the perfect situation for the CIBER Higher Ed Tune Up! CIBER is offering a spring...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Higher Education Knowledge Management Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools Process Improvement Quality Assurance Quality Management Student Records/Registration Student Systems
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Tune Up with CIBER at AACRAO!
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 18 February 2011 / 2:30 PM : 0
CIBER’s Higher Education Consultant’s pride themselves on helping institutions improve operations so that enrollment targets can be met, while making the most of your resources and costs. We pride ourselves in bringing first-hand experience in leading higher education professionals toward technology optimization. We work seamlessly with your people across multiple departments and areas to improve efficiencies and student services, drive financial performance of your financial aid services, and organizational operations. We take a neutral, unbiased approach to evaluating and recommending practical high impact solutions that you can implement immediately as well as longer term sustaining solutions that work with your overall enrollment management goals.
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Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Business Value Campus Solutions Collaboration Enterprise Integration Higher Education IT Strategy Knowledge Management Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools Quality Assurance Requirements Detailing Student Records/Registration Student Systems
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CIBER will be represented at AACRAO 2011 in Seattle!
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 08 February 2011 / 9:52 PM : 1
I am pleased to announce that CIBER Inc.’s Higher Education Practice will again be an exhibitor at the 97th Annual American Association of Collegiate Registrar and Admissions Officer (AACRAO) conference In Seattle, WA, March 13-16th, 2011. The AACRAO conference brings together Registrar and Admissions professionals from all over the United States and beyond seeking professional development, networking opportunities and those seeking resources to enhance their operations with leading industry vendors, like CIBER!
Before coming to CIBER more than five years ago, I attended the AACRAO conference for many years as an Admissions professional and made many friends across the higher education community. If you are planning to go to the conference I look forward to seeing you ...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Business Value Campus Solutions Collaboration Enterprise Integration IT Planning IT Strategy IT Value Oracle Organizational Change Management PeopleSoft PeopleTools Quality Assurance Student Records/Registration Student Systems
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Use DecisionDirector to Jump Start Your Project
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 16 August 2010 / 1:52 PM : 1
No one plans to fail, some just fail to plan! We have all heard this old adage. It can be no truer than applying it to the large and complex administrative software projects taking place on campuses across the country and around the globe. Colleges and universities are trying to become more “commercialized” and thinking more about the bottom line when approaching these grandiose technology projects. Obtaining true return on technology investments is driving the decisions made on the same campuses that pre-Y2K would have been less scrutinizing in how dollars were spent within IT. The end-users of the technology, the “consumers”, are much more readily engaged and leading the evaluation of how and why to implement a solution. Gone...
Tagged: Business Continuity Business Impact Analysis CIO IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value Oracle Process Improvement
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PeopleTools history review and a tip of the hat to a wonderful techie PeopleTools Book - PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips and Techniques by Jim J. Marion, ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166493-6
Mark Sanderson, Consultant Manager : 10 August 2010 / 5:08 PM : 2
For those of us that work on PeopleSoft systems grinding out code everyday, it's been an interesting experience witnessing the transformation of the PeopleTools tool set over the past 15 years. Back in the mid 1990's we had a classical two tier, fat client model that has indeed transformed it's self nicely into a state-of-the-art, web-based, industrial grade development platform that can be very effective at it's intended goals.
In spite of this steady progression towards a full featured, object oriented development platform, one of the significant challenges over the years has been learning how to best take advantage of this proprietary development environment. If it was the java or C language, we could simply go to our nearest bookseller and find an abundance of high quality b...
Tagged: Campus Solutions Oracle Skill Development
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Is Knowledge Management the key?
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 05 November 2009 / 5:15 AM : 3
There are two types of knowledge management often being discussed, Personal Knowledge Management and Enterprise Knowledge Management. In simple, digestible terms, Personal Knowledge Management refers to the personal responsibility to share, to learn, connect and share personal insights. Enterprise Knowledge Management is an organization’s concern with strategy, process and technologies to acquire, store, share and secure organizational understanding, insights and core distinctions and is closely tied to competitive advantage, innovation and agility. Can we afford either of these to be absent? I propose that they both must be present and that Enterprise Knowledge Management cannot exist without Personal Knowledge Management.
Knowledge management is increas...
Tagged: Admissions/Recruiting Business Impact Analysis Business Value Campus Solutions Enterprise Integration Higher Education IT Planning IT Strategy Knowledge Management Project Management Student Systems
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The Dilemma: University Project Priorities Vs University Budget Cuts – The Solution: Stimulus Funds
Tom Payne, National Director of Business Development : 09 September 2009 / 8:59 AM : 0
Higher education is certainly not immune to the burdens of adapting to the rapid pace of technological change. This, however, is hardly a new phenomenon. The rate of change has been increasing for decades and the demands of the customers that IT must support are growing almost as quickly. So, with all of this change ever constant and all around us, I am amazed each year at the number of colleges and universities that have managed to operate on legacy administrative systems that are several decades old. Suffice it to say, a majority of colleges and universities have made the leap to new enterprise-wide systems in the last 10-15 years. But there are still a lot of those that need to make the move. Those yet to make the change have not been idly sitting on the sidelines...
Tagged: Business Value Campus Solutions CIO ERP IT Planning IT Value Project Management Stimulus Funding Student Systems
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Technology Will Change the College Fair Experience
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 25 June 2009 / 4:11 PM : 1 
The college fair is an experience dreaded by some admission professionals, but one that most talented high school students look forward to. For the college admissions counselor, it can be a long tiring day or night spent standing behind a marketing display repeating the same institutional facts, collecting contact cards from students who stop by their table, and long nights helping the staff back at the institution enter the contact information into the prospect system to ensure that prospective students receive more information in a timely manner. For the student, however, the event quite often is a welcome experience. Students may be excused from class, or simply grateful to have made it to their junior or senior year. Unfortunately, at large college fairs, they often find tha...
Tagged: Business Impact Analysis Campus Solutions Higher Education Information Management Interface Design Oracle Student Systems
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CIBER Consultants Are The Added Value
Dewey Holleman, Practice Manager : 03 June 2009 / 3:46 PM : 0
Tough Times Never Last…..
But tough people do…..as the saying goes. So, how do we outlast the tough times? One way is to reach down and recommit ourselves to the concept that our true strength does not necessarily lie in our processes or procedures but in ourselves. People are the difference. And what makes us the difference is our belief that we ourselves bring added value to the table every time we interact with the client. Many times we are able to define ‘added value’ as the varied experiences we have had or the creative juices that flowed within a team that addressed a set of unique challenges. That’s easy ‘added value’. The tougher added value we try to make our own is the personal commitment to the extra time we spend keeping up with outside influe...
Tagged: Campus Solutions CRM ERP Higher Education Knowledge Management Oracle Spring
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