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The November 7 issue of Campus Technology includes an article highlighting the announcement that University of Akron in Ohio began implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, both hosted on Oracle Cloud Solutions for Education and Research. The article notes that the new technology is part of the university's Vision 2020 strategic plan to increase enrollment, improve the learning experience, and increase funding. The article also notes that East-West University (EWU) has implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions to help automate administrative processes and improve information management. The article includes comment from Susan Rzyczycki, assistant vice president applications services, University of Akron, who notes that the Oracle Cloud Solutions for Education and Research provided the university with an additional option for its strategic planning needs--while also preserving internal capabilities to focus on core competencies. The article also includes comment from Farid I. Muhammad, director of title III, East-West University, who notes that by selecting the Optimized Campus implementation model for Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, the university receive the benefits of Oracle's complete, integrated solutions that enable higher education institutions to adapt to the changing needs and demands of all their constituents, at an affordable cost.

The November 7 issue of Campus Technology includes an article highlighting the announcement that University of Minnesota implemented Oracle Exadata Database to improve the efficiently of its database administration and reduce cost. The article notes that hosting critical business applications under a single Oracle Exadata architecture has made it easier for the university to deliver database-wide updates and manage the system. The article includes comment from Patton Fast, senior director and enterprise architecture, University of Minnesota, who notes that the Exadata platform has been an enabler to reduce total cost of ownership related to supporting Oracle databases because they were able to drive the adoption of best practices and dramatically reduce the amount of infrastructure required.

The November 6 issue of Information Management includes an article highlighting Oracle's three announcements on higher education adoption of its product stack. The article notes the announcement of the University of Minnesota's implementation of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the University of Akron's deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management in the vendor's Cloud Solutions for Education and Research, and East-West University's implementation of Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.

The November 8 edition of eCampus News includes the following press release announcing that the University of Akron has selected Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management hosted on Oracle Cloud Solutions for Education and Research.  The release includes comment from Cole Clark, global vice president, education and research industry, Oracle, who notes that with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, hosted on Oracle Cloud Solutions for Education and Research, The University of Akron will have greater reporting capabilities to facilitate forecasting and planning, while reducing operational expenses.

The November 7 issue of The Financial includes an article announcing that University of Akron has implemented Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management hosted on Oracle Cloud Solutions for Education and Research.   The article also notes that the university also deployed PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management solutions including Financial Analytics, Human Capital Management Warehouse and Supply Chain Analytics.  The article notes that University of Akron will leverage Oracle solutions as a part of its Vision 2020 - a strategic plan designed to grow enrollment, improve the learning experience and increase funding for student programs, faculty, research, campus and community. 

The November 8 edition of eCampus News includes the following press release announcing that University of Minnesota has implemented Oracle Exadata Database Machine to improve database administration efficiency.  The release includes comment by Patton Fast, senior director and enterprise architecture, University of Minnesota, who notes that the Exadata platform has been an enabler for the university to reduce total cost of ownership related to supporting Oracle databases because the university was able to drive the adoption of best practices and dramatically reduce the amount of infrastructure required.

The November 8 issue of Campus Technology includes an article announcing that Modo Labs released Mobile Campus 2.0 with a new functionality that allows institutions to bring data from learning management and student information systems to students' mobile devices through a single interface.  The article notes that Version 2.0 includes a new Course and Registrars module that enables student and course information to be pulled from widely used systems such as Sakai, Blackboard and Oracle's PeopleSoft.

The November 30 issue of University Business includes the following article highlighting that University of Minnesota selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine to reduce its data center footprint and enhance performance and manageability.  The article notes that by hosting its IT environment on two Oracle Exadata Database Machine half racks, the University of Minnesota consolidated more than 200 Oracle database instances into fewer than 20, enabling it to reduce data center floor space and total cost of ownership.

The November 15 edition of Campus Technology includes the following second installment of a two-part series highlighting big data and examines how pioneering schools are mining big data in hopes of improving student learning and performance.  The article highlights multiple schools, including Oracle customer Arizona State University (ASU) which considers itself to be at the forefront of student data analytics.  The article notes that ASU was among the first universities in the country to build a data warehouse and maintains big data and Hadoop working groups.  The article includes comment by John Rome, deputy chief information officer (CIO) and business intelligence (BI) strategist, ASU, who notes that when ASU looks at outsourcing, they consider core versus context.  He also notes that ASU has already outsourced its email as well as the hosting of its ERP and LMS systems. He also notes that the university knows there are big opportunities in big data, and ASU fully intends to exploit them.

The November 13 edition of eSchool News includes the following press release announcing that the University of Minnesota implemented Oracle Exadata Database Machine to improve database administration efficiency.  The release includes comment from Patton Fast, senior director and enterprise architecture, University of Minnesota, who notes that the Exadata platform enabled the university to reduce total cost of ownership related to supporting Oracle databases by driving the adoption of best practices and dramatically reducing the amount of infrastructure required.

The November 1 edition of Campus Technology includes the following first installment of a two-part series highlighting big data and its potential for improving student learning and success.  The article notes that in higher education, big data may be seen in two distinct contexts: 1) as a product of research institutions that are charged with gathering, managing, and curating a wide range of structured and unstructured data; and 2) as a resource for predictive analytics.  The article includes comment based off a conversation with Cole Clark, global vice president of education and research industry, Oracle, who notes that  higher education is really being pushed hard to improve student outcomes and demonstrate that the money spent on higher education is producing the kinds of outcomes everyone wants to see.  He also notes that the pressure has pushed schools to look at ways to pull meaningful data out of their SISs, LMSs, and, increasingly, social media. 

The November 22 edition of University Business includes the following article highlighting how improvements in business intelligence (BI) tools have given higher education leaders more data power for decision making. The article notes that Florida State moved from third-party legacy BI tools to Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus last year to standardize on one platform. The article includes comment from Selim Burduroglu, industry architect, Oracle Education & Research, who suggests three core principles for successful BI in higher education - start simple and evolve, minimize variables and link insight to action to provide continuous institutional effectiveness.

The November 15 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article highlighting the recent release of the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system (OS). The article notes that Oracle Solaris 11 provides built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network, and storage resources and is designed to run enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds.

The November 14 edition of IT Wire includes the following release highlighting the University of Melbourne implementing Oracle Platform for its student portal. The article includes comment from Niranjan Prabu, Director, University of Melbourne who notes it was straightforward to add the new portal functionality and the dream of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The new platform reduced the cost of redeveloping the portal by 40 percent.

The November edition of TechTarget included an article discussing Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM). The article notes that OFM spans multiple services such as integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, content management, and Java EE and developer tools. Of note, the article highlights Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's (ERAU) OFM implementation. The article includes comment from Cindy Bixler, CIO, ERAU, who notes that OFM integrated applications across the university's three campuses for single sign-on - something that would have been almost impossible to achieve without Oracle.

The November 4 edition of Campus Technology included an article covering the University of Texas-Pan American's (UTPA) new financial and human resource payroll software. The university implemented the software in an effort to accommodate expected growth in enrollment and new academic programs. UTPA deployed Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 to manage accounts receivable, cash management, and time entry for faculty and staff operations.

The November/December issue of Oracle Magazine included an article about how organizations use Oracle Exadata Database Machine for increased efficiency, private cloud solutions, consolidation, and database as a service (DBaaS). The article highlights the University of Minnesota's DBaaS implementation to create its database hotel, which it developed to provide faster, more flexible, and more efficient service to all university departments. The university has two Oracle Exadata Database Machines and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) for high availability. It also uses the Data Guard feature for disaster recovery capabilities. The university can now return registration results within seconds, even during peak registration periods, and through centralized IT, it enables departments to manage their own databases.

As the East Coast prepared for Superstorm Sandy, the American Red Cross's new cloud platform allowed users in the storm's path to read customized preparedness warnings and shelter information, based on their location, as they checked the organization's homepage. And when Americans reached into their pockets after the storm, a scalable ecommerce platform allowed the organization to handle as many as 75,000 concurrent donations - the most ever. The American Red Cross is merging its 400-500 chapter websites, under a new cloud platform, from Oracle Corp. , that allows the organization to scale up its capacity when a disaster strikes and users are clamoring for preparedness information, Craig Oldham, vice president of digital engagement told CIO Journal. The platform, which the Red Cross began rolling out in August, was already implemented by half its chapters by the time the storm struck. The ability to scale up allowed the Red Cross to handle a peak of more than 500,000 page views per minute, during a NBC telethon to draw donations for the relief effort in early November...