One of the many lingering questions about adjusting to the new normal revolves around education and how we will continue to educate the world’s next leaders during a global pandemic. Higher education, like most the business world, has been conducted remotely for the last few months, but with learning over for most students, now is […]
The University of Southern California was faced with evaluating transfer credits for thousands of new students who were slated to arrive for orientation during a short two-week cycle in the summer of 2020. They needed a transfer credit automation solution to help them with that enormous task. The Tech Decision Previously the institution didn’t have […]
The must-have list of security camera and monitoring apps for CCTV and IP security cameras. These iOS and Android apps allow the user to control the pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) through “pinch to zoom,” take snapshots and send via MMS and email, play back video recordings, two-way audio, view live video from multiple cameras, store multiple DVR connections in an address book, instant notification of alarm events, and HTTPS support for secure connectivity are among just a few features. Some allow the user to monitor hundreds of network cameras of different brands. Many common IP cameras such as Axis, Sony, Toshiba, Vivotek, and Panasonic.
A power surge had disabled over 30 surveillance system cameras at Newman University. Officials realized it was time to think about the future. To find a solution, campus security officials enlisted the help of Unison Integrated Technology, a CCTV installation and maintenance company. Since the school works with contract security, they were searching for an easy-to-use solution. “We […]
Every day, hackers scam students and administrators into giving up their private credentials, revealing sensitive information that can lead to violations under FERPA, or provide access to sensitive internal university systems in university phishing attacks. But phishing is more than an annoyance — it’s causing significant financial losses and privacy violations at college campuses around […]
It started Thursday, March 6, 2020. The University of Washington released a statement that all classes would be moved online for the remainder of the quarter. Then Friday came Stanford’s announcement. The dominoes continued to fall. Within the next 48 hours, every major institution in the United States announced some version of transitioning on-campus classes […]
The largest university system in Kentucky recently rebooted its networks after dealing with a large-scale malware attack for a month. Officials say it was the worst in the school’s history. According to officials, the three-hour campus-wide network outage at the University of Kentucky (UK) and UK Healthcare was successful at “mitigating the existing cyber threat,” […]
Ellucian, the provider of software and services built for higher education, announces Arkansas State University (ASU) has selected Ellucian Banner as its unified, cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. As part of a statewide effort to align higher education institutions, the ASU System will implement Banner to achieve a shared, scalable cloud platform designed to increase collaboration, […]
Bucknell University was implementing some new enterprise systems and the existing data warehouse required significant architectural changes to support them. Bucknell had historically used (and continued to use for many core processes) the Banner Ellucian ERP student information system that managed everything on the back-end, including BI and reporting—a turnkey system for higher education. The […]
Enterprise content management benefits aren’t too easy to realize if multiple systems across an organization are used, with nothing to tie them together. That’s what Texas A&M University — a school which boasts America’s second-largest student body — learned after many years of different agencies within the school using different ECM software to improve efficiency. […]
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