SaaS

EDUCAUSE Library Items for SaaS

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…

Engage, Inspire, and Enable: Getting to Know Desire2Learn

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Desire2Learn is transforming the teaching and learning experience by engaging, inspiring, and enabling people to achieve their potential through innovative e-learning products and solutions. Duri…

Software-as-a-Service Email Security: Risk vs. Trust

May 31, 2012

Many organizations would be interested in treating e-mail as a commodity —cutting costs and resource investments by outsourcing it to a software as a service (SaaS) provider. However, …

Enterprise Strategies and Planning Necessary to Deliver On-Demand SaaS for Students and Faculty

May 17, 2012 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2012

Indiana University, in collaboration with the University of Iowa and the Johns Hopkins Medical School, is demonstrating how software as a service can provide a fresh approach to meet the demands of…

Software as a Service or In-House Application: Decision Points

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Carnegie Mellon's Planning and Project Management Office in the central IT Computing Services division recently evaluated the product delivery offerings for its project and portfolio managemen…

Federating The University of North Carolina: Origins and Benefits

June 1, 2011

This ECAR case study of the University of North Carolina Identity Federation explores the benefits and impacts of federated identity on the university and its 17 constituent institutions . Fe…

From Homegrown to the Cloud: Identity Management Evolution at Coppin State University

June 1, 2011

This ECAR case study offers an introductory, not highly technical, look at a SaaS identity management (IdM) solution in higher education . It traces Coppin State University’s evolution fr…

The Soft Side of SaaS: Implications for IT in Higher Education

May 3, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin provides an understanding of how the evolution of software as a service (SaaS) will impact the relationships and roles of business and IT organizations in our college…

A Vision for Cloud—and Earth—Based Services at UC Davis

February 2, 2011

UC Davis is actively pursuing the use of cloud and cloud-like services. Starting with Gmail for Students in 2008, we then migrated our on-campus Sakai learning and collaboration system to an off-…

Compliance: Easy as PIE!

March 29, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

Saint Michael's College created a cross-functional team to coordinate institutional compliance programs and both develop and share related institutional knowledge. The college uses PIEmatrix…