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Analytics in Higher Ed, 2015

A new report looks at where we are now and the challenges that remain.

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What Do Faculty and Students Think of IT?

Understanding their perspectives can help higher education optimize the impact of IT.

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IT Service Delivery in Higher Education

IT service delivery is in a transitional stage. Learn about how it's changing and the challenge of balancing agility with stability.

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Top 10 Strategic Technologies in 2015

2015 is all about mobile—seven of the 2015 top 10 strategic technologies are directly or indirectly related to mobile computing.

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IT GRC—Get Your Ducks in a Row

The data you need to make informed IT GRC decisions.

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Integrated Planning and Advising Services

IPAS plays a major role in student success strategy. Get lessons learned and best practices from this new report.

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Today's Higher Education IT Workforce

Job satisfaction, salary, culture—learn what makes the higher education IT workforce tick.

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Leveraging Learning Data for Student Success

This paper takes a closer look at the emerging field of predictive learning analytics and its impact the higher education landscape.

The Enterprise Application Market in Higher Ed

Find out how institutions approach various information systems, including web content management, IT service desk management, e-mail, room scheduling, and more.

Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud

This seven-part series takes an indepth look at the many challenges of cloud services selection, adoption, and support.

The Changing Face of IT Service Delivery

This report examines the effects of the transition on IT organization management, leadership, and the workforce.

In-Memory Computing

In-memory computing helps make big-data analytics possible by keeping data in a server’s RAM rather than removing it to databases on separate disk drives.

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