Vendor Selection

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Vendor Selection

Scaling a Higher Education Enterprise Electronic Content Management System at Texas A&M University

June 3, 2013

Key Takeaways Texas A&M University sought to centralize and consolidate their various electronic content management solutions into single shared service . After selecti…

Enterprise Content-Aware DLP Solution Comparison and Select Vendor Profiles

May 14, 2013

This Gartner report covers content-aware data-loss prevention, which has grown up and is on the verge of becoming a standard part of security architecture. A small set of vendors dominate a major…

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 …

Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics

February 25, 2013

Optimizing student success is the “killer app” for analytics in higher education . Intelligent investments in optimizing student success garner wide support and have a strong, justifia…

Breaking the Ice: 6 ideas to help vendors and IT leaders forge a more productive relationship

May 1, 2012

In this Campus Technology article the author details six ways higher education IT leaders and the vendor community can work together to find more meaningful ways to leverage each other'…

2012 Planning Guide: Identity and Privacy

December 12, 2011

After two years of rapid and disruptive change in the identity market, 2012 promises even more of the same. Intensifying policy battles, increased levels of fraud and privacy intrusion, continui…

Moving Outside the LMS: Matching Web 2.0 Tools to Instructional Purpose

September 7, 2011

What considerations support the decision to either augment or replace an institution’s existing learning management system (LMS) with a cloud-based, Web 2.0 technology tool to suppor…

Guide to Cloud Computing for Policymakers

July 26, 2011

This SIIA  white paper provides a roadmap for fostering the development of the cloud and harnessing its full economic potential. This SIIA  w…

Cloud Services: Policy and Assessment

July 21, 2011

David Escalante is Director of Computer Policy & Security at Boston College. Andrew J. Korty ( ajk@iu.edu ) is Deputy Information Security Officer at Indiana University. Commen…

Using Technology Dollars Wisely

June 24, 2011

Key Takeaways With technology costs a growing part of campus budgets, how can campus leaders know they are spending wisely on technology? To avoid overstaffing to meet p…