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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Productivity Applications and Systems
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Well, if They’re Already Using It ...
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October 25, 2007
College representatives at Educause conference ponder outsourcing e-mail to Google and how to embrace students’ Facebook habits. College repr…
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Exploring Student Communications Services for the 21st Century
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September 19, 2007
Today’s IT leaders face multiple challenges united by a common thread: determining when to provide custom IT services for students, when to facilitate their use of external IT services, and whe…
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Outsourcing Student Collaborative Services
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September 10, 2007
Outsourcing Student Collaboration Services Arizona State University and Northwestern University have successfully outsourced their student collaboration services. Ball State University has implem…
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Colleges Testing Google Apps
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August 30, 2007
U.S. universities are signing for the free Google Apps hosted software suite--but aren't abandoning Microsoft apps just yet. U.S. universiti…
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Outsourcing E-Mail and Other Commodity Services
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June 19, 2007
Increasingly campuses are considering outsourcing commodity IT services such as e-mail, instant messaging, and calendaring, either for students or for the entire institution. One of the most wide…
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Commoditization of Core Services
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May 23, 2007
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A session at the Enterprise Technology Conference 2007
Given increasing pressures to do more with less, institutions are beginning to look at outsourcing core services to improve quality of service while significantly reducing costs. Louisiana State Un…
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Outsourcing Student E-Mail and Other Collaboration Services
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March 14, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
Northwestern University recently embarked on an investigation to determine which, if any, external vendor might be suitable to provide e-mail and other student collaboration services for our studen…
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E-Mail: Paradigms, Options, and Outsourcing
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November 7, 2006
E-mail is perhaps the most fundamental information technology tool in use today. In higheraeducation there are new options to consider that include outsourcing the infrastructure as well as the e…
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Providing Student E-Mail Getting You Down? Outsource It!
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February 24, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2006
LSU has implemented a feature-rich e-mail solution from a carrier class provider for under $6 per box per year. The service includes 1GB storage, SMTP/IMAP/POP3 interfaces, antivirus/antispam compo…
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Session Podcast: Embracing the Cloud — New Approaches for Delivering Campus IT Services
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March 25, 2010
Outsourcing, open source, SaaS, and virtualization offer new approaches for delivering campus IT services. Examples at NJIT include Google Mail, Postini, Moodle, iTunes U, thin-client desktops, a…

















