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The March 7 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article focusing on rising education costs and how schools are coping with more responsibility amid anemic budgets. The article features three panelists from a range of higher education organizations, including Joy Hatch, vice chancellor for information technology services, Virginia Community College System (VCCS). She notes that VCCS has one of the largest PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Blackboard Learn implementations; by using a centralized approach, the college system can provide more services for the 23 colleges while realizing significant savings.

The March 6 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article focusing on why the admissions department is a good place to start for schools moving to the cloud. The article includes comment by Michael Statmore, Chief Information Officer, Post University, who notes that the school has partnered with cloud-based CRM provider Oracle for its online student admissions, a move that's made it far easier for the staff to "unify process and methods." He notes that with the ability to map out tasks and objectives on a central hub, the university has freed up hundreds of hours per year.

The March 22 edition of ExecutiveBiz includes the following article highlighting that Ciber has combined Oracle's PeopleSoft campus and business intelligence platforms with other applications to manage workflow, processes and Web-based services for students, faculty and staff located across six Ohio University campuses. The article notes that Ohio University selected Oracle's business intelligence products for decision making after the school assessed its needs through a fit and gap analysis.

The March 28 edition of ExecutiveBiz includes an article highlighting that Ciber recently won a contract to implement an Oracle ERP system to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). The article notes that the company will host applications and provide managed services for the five-year ctcLink system project.

The March 28 edition of Campus Technology includes an article highlighting that Ciber is implementing and maintaining the new ctcLink project for Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC). The article notes that the new system consists of numerous Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, including Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Financial Management, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, and Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management. The article also includes comment from a prepared statement by Mike Dillon, higher education vice president for Ciber and Oracle practice leader, who notes that this opportunity leverages some of Ciber's greatest strengths: higher education background, Oracle expertise and managed services delivery.

CEO Jill Brown Dean: "What this system really gives us is the precision to plan floor set by floor set, week by week to ensure that each of our big businesses and each of our key categories is appropriately positioned in the preplanning phase and then appropriately reacted to, whether it is promotions, slowing down inventory in the supply chain, moving up inventory, the whole read-and-react thing. So it's giving us a precision around these big top 30 styles, which, as you said, really when we're successful, they're half our business. And it's just giving us a tremendous level of insight and visibility that we have not had." CFO and COO James Bell: "As an organization, we have worked diligently to develop many inventory management disciplines in recent years, but we're lacking adequate tools to fully maximize our inventory investment. This past March, we completed the implementation of a new Oracle-based inventory planning system. The capabilities of this new system are significantly more robust than anything we've used in the past, providing a level of transparency that represents a meaningful opportunity for us to drive more consistent sales and margin improvement over time as we become more proficient with this new capability."...