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August 11, 2011 | Sue B. Workman

The Chessboard discussion has been very engaging.  Just prior to that  I volunteered to organize an above the campus discussion about shared support services.  Thus far 11 schools are participating.  I will be scheduling a Connect session to start off this discussion.  Anyone else interested in attending the kick-off online session?

 

Sue

Sue B. Workman, Associate Vice President

Office Vice President and CIO, Indiana University

(812) 855-0913 (IU Bloomington)      (317)278-9099 (IUPUI)      (812)325-3928 (Cell)

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August 11, 2011 | Bruce W. Vieweg

I’ll agree that I don’t see a customer advantage at all in this merger.  Higher costs most assuredly will present, and maintenance costs are already high.  I also agree with Greg that these two platforms are very different and I just don’t see how they complement each other.   Entrepreneurs are already offering cloud-based ‘subscription’ plans, which is where I see the future.  The major systems currently in place require enormous upfront costs, long implementation periods, substantial technical support in place, and substantial maintenance costs.  I just don’t see how that model is sustainable.

 

Course, my crystal ball is pretty cloudy . . .

 

 

Bruce W. Vieweg

Associate Provost

Chief Information Officer

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August 9, 2011 | Diana Oblinger

As Mark suggested in his post, this is a good discussion to have in Philadelphia at the annual conference. In fact, Brad has agreed to facilitate a discussion on Wednesday October 18th from 3:30-4:20 pm in room 201C. The session is a new approach for this year’s conference that we are calling “Open Space.” These sessions are intended to provide open space on the program so that CIOs and senior IT leaders can discuss hot topics, such as this one.

 

Beyond convening conversations, EDUCAUSE has been in discussion with third parties exploring options to bring demand aggregation services to members. The discussions are in the early stages so it is too soon to predict what will happen.

 

We have talked about aggregating demand and ways of getting better pricing as well as terms and conditions from providers over the...

August 22, 2011 | David Lassner
The EDUCAUSE Board meets in person 4 times a year, and as you might expect, because the annual conference is such a key activity of the organization -- for both community-building and financial stability -- we discuss at least some aspect of the conference at most of our meetings. There was a sense among a number of CIOs a few years back that the conference was no longer a must-attend event. There were concerns about relevance of the content, unmanageable size, and increasing pressure on travel budgets. To their credit, Diana and the EDUCAUSE management and staff have listened carefully to the membership and Board and have been acting on what they heard. So since it may not be obvious to everyone, I thought I'd take this chance to share a bit of what the Board and I get to hear more regularly about the evolution of our conference over the past few years. One change has been a focus on CIOs and senior IT leaders, whose interest in attending had been waning. Rather than presume it...
August 19, 2011 | Susan Grajek
EDUCAUSE asked two questions that bear on this topic in this summer's Core Data Service Service survey. They were: “Which funding sources are being used in the current FY to support…communications infrastructure services?” (Module 1, Question 32) …and… “Regardless of how your institutional network is financed, does the current funding model include renewal of the capital plant, including wiring, electronics, and so forth?” (Module 1, Question 33) I've attached summary tables showing the responses to these questions by Carnegie Classification and public vs. private institution that you might be interested in reviewing and using. To view the survey form, go to: http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/cds/pdfs/EDUCAUSE_Core_Data_All_M... Results showed that, overall, 31% of...
August 16, 2011 | Theresa Rowe
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