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The February 12 edition of eCampus News includes the following press release announcing that Oracle's PeopleSoft Student Administration Integration Pack has become the first student information system (SIS) to achieve official conformance certification with IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Information Services (LIS) v2.0 Beta 1 specification. The release notes that the LIS specification provides the industry with a definable yard stick to measure learning system interoperability. The release includes comment from Mark Armstrong, vice president, higher education product development, Oracle, who notes that conformance confirms Oracle's longstanding commitment to system interoperability.

The February 11 edition of University Business include the following article by Cole Clark, global vice president of education and research industries, Oracle, discussing cloud computing in higher education. The article notes that many higher education institutions are moving to the cloud because of shrinking budgets, increasing system complexity, and escalating user expectations. The article also notes that while implementing new solutions can be costly, higher education institutions are realizing significant returns on their cloud investments, whether public or private. The article concludes that for higher education, with the tangible benefits of efficiency, cost savings, and improved service delivery, the challenge is "how, what, and when" to move to the cloud-not "if."

The February 12 edition of eSchool News includes the following press release announcing that Oracle's PeopleSoft Student Administration Integration Pack has become the first student information system (SIS) to achieve official conformance certification with IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Information Services (LIS) v2.0 Beta 1 specification. The release notes that the LIS specification provides the industry with a definable yard stick to measure learning system interoperability. The release includes comment from Mark Armstrong, vice president, higher education product development, Oracle, who notes that conformance confirms Oracle's longstanding commitment to system interoperability.