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2012 CDS Executive Summary Report

This year’s report provides IT financial and staffing findings and a high-level summary of the state of IT services.

2012 CDS Almanacs

View 2011 almanacs for a year-to-year comparison.

Benchmarking for CIOs Video

In the CIO role, having data and knowing what to do with it are instrumental to success. Get the basics on benchmarking in this eight-minute video.

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CDS Update: Survey Sneak Peek

The June CDS Update features a sneak peek of the CDS 2013 Survey Module 1.

ECAR Bulletin on Classroom and Instructional Technology

Now publicly available, this bulletin uses CDS data to paint a picture of where institutions are investing in classroom technology.

New Core Data Service Almanacs

These publicly available, two-page summaries distill CDS data by Carnegie Class and IT service areas.

Learn About CDS

Colleges and universities use the CDS benchmarking service to inform their IT strategic planning and management. CDS participants gain access to comparative data from peer institutions. EDUCAUSE researchers and community members collaborate annually to produce analysis, reports and other publications that summarize and analyze the data. Learn More >

2013 Survey Modules

Module 1 | IT Organization, Staffing, and Financing

Module 2 | IT Support Services

Module 3 | Educational Technology Services

Module 4 | Research Computing Services

Module 5 | Data Centers

Module 6 | Communications Infrastructure Services

Module 7 | Information Security

Module 8 | Information Systems and Applications

New Data Dashboards

If you completed CDS 2012, join the open BETA test of CDS Reporting to interact with your data. Assign peer groups, create visual data comparisons, drill down to Core Metrics and individual questions, and more.

"I am very happy to see that EDUCAUSE has invested in a significant update to the reporting tools in the Core Data Service. I'm already finding new stories from the data that will help our university understand the role and contribution of IT."

— Theresa Rowe, CIO, Oakland University

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