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Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education: May 14, 2013

Accurately and consistently measuring the cost of IT in higher education is an essential part of strategic IT management, yet according to IT leaders, cost data have proven elusive. What if a…
Is Our Software Designed for Change? Successes and Challenges in Using Service Oriented Architecture: March 11, 2013

Institutions of higher education face disruptive changes, and changes in information technology are at the heart of these disruptions. Service oriented architecture (SOA ) provides a comprehen…
2013 Planning Guide for Application Delivery Strategies: Mobile, Cloud, Social, and Information: January 28, 2013

Gartner's 2013 planning guide for application delivery teams outlines trends in mobile, cloud, social, and information initiatives and provides guidance on how to design, develop, and …
The 2011 Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education: June 14, 2012

Key Findings Almost every college and university (>95%) delivers a set of six core applications: student information, HR/payroll, finance, e-mail (for faculty and staff and for students)…
Making the Case for the Information Strategy: September 6, 2011

Whether improving access to learning resources and research collections, developing management information systems to support decision making, or facilitating better communication, the informa…
Cloud Storage: An Emerging Market: August 4, 2009

Driven by the need to reduce costs and to provide dependable data delivery and protection, the cloud storage pay-as-you-go service model offers information technology a new way to avoid building…
Getting Serious About Sustainable IT: Metrics, Tools, and Solutions: July 14, 2009

This ECAR This research bulletin provides a review of current tools and metrics for assessing IT sustainability and green initiatives. It evaluates current measurement tools and proposes conceptu…
Implementing an ERP on Time and on Budget: An Innovative, Inclusive Approach: May 19, 2009

This ECAR research bulletin provides an innovative and practical approach to implementing an institution-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) both on time and on budget. It describes the princ…
Spreading the Word: Messaging and Communications in Higher Education Roadmap: March 31, 2009

This ECAR roadmap synthesizes the important issues and recommended actions drawn from the 2009 ECAR research study, Spreading the Word: Messaging and Communications in Higher Education Roadmap, b…
Spreading the Word: Messaging and Communications in Higher Education - Key Findings: March 31, 2009

This document presents the key findings from the 2009 ECAR study, Spreading the Word: Messaging and Communications in Higher Education, by Mark C. Sheehan, with Judith A. Pirani. The study presen…

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