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- Information Systems
- The formal title for a data processing, MIS, or IS department. Other titles are Data Processing, Information Processing, Information Services, Management Information Systems, Management Information Services and Information Technology.
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- You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?
- If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Late night musings on student information systems
- We're moving rapidly into the last month before we go live on our new student information system. This migration has been a long time coming and is a welcome move from an antiquated and overly-complicated product. We searched pretty extensively and evaluated several options, both client-server and web-based,...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-06-17
- Student information systems meet Web 2.0
- Although I have had few kind words for web-based student information systems in the past, recent previews of latest generation Web 2.0-style SIS apps have certainly given me reason to reconsider. I currently administer an implementation of Chancery SMS that was dumped in my lap a few years ago....
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, K-12, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student data
- New budget negotiations in Utah are getting underway, and lawmakers are asking for a portion of the education budget go to private contractors to sort student data, reports the Deseret UT News. Under the proposal, $3 million of the education budget would go to implementation of a system...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- ND tries to fix troubled campus information system
- The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education has voted the increase spending to upgrade troubled software that connects North Dakotas college campuses, reports the Associated Press. After drawing complaints from users, the ConnectND software system is going to get a $9.5 million facelift, consisting of 11.5 new...
- Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Six trends for 2007 and the 21st century
- eSchoolNews editor Gregg Downey offers six prognostications for the coming year. #1. Web 2.0. YouTube is just the latest and most spectacular example of how the democratization of the internet is about to change everything. For education, it seems to me, the populism inherent in the internet...
- Tags: SCORM, Education Technology, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- U. Utah holds contest for best hacker
- It was about as fun as watching a chess tournament, but Utahs finest programmers from the University of Utahs nationally ranked School of Computing duked it out for cash prizes to see whose Internet database could handle 10,000 connections at once, reports the Salt Lake Tribune It...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, programmer, Internet Database
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Web or client-server, Part 1
- Student information systems continue to evolve, with many moving to a web-based interface for managing student, school, and district data. While this has obvious benefits, many vendors are choosing to maintain client-server or, more and more frequently, Windows Terminal Services/Citrix Presentation Server implementations. Many early systems relied on proprietary...
- Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Course management software, Web browser, client-server
- Blog posts 2006-11-11
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
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- Nsauditor 1.9.8 (Windows)
- Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a network security software and vulnerability scanner that allows auditing and monitoring network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checking network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it and create a report of potential problems that were found. Nsauditor is a complete...
- Tags: Network, Auditing, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Nsasoft, Nsauditor Network Security Auditor, Nsauditor, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-11-28
- The Evolution of Integration
- Once upon a time life and information systems were simple. Then one day somebody let Pandora out of her box. Someone said -can't we add new requirements to these systems? Can't we have something more sophisticated and elegant than this small system? The answer was - of course we can....
- Tags: Evolution, Integration, Talend, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-26
- MAPublisher 8.2 (Mac)
- Powerful suite of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems GIS and high-end graphic design for high quality creation, high resolution printing and electronic publishing of maps. Cartographic quality map production is now faster, easier and better. Avenza understands that completing GIS graphics tasks is...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Adobe Illustrator, Graphics, Avenza Systems Inc., MAPublisher, GIS, Data Management, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- What open source can teach medical practice
- Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw
- Do you mean:"The vulnerability was confirmed on fully patched Windows XP SP3 systems with Internet Explorer 6 and [b]7[/b]."Also how effective is the exploit with Protected Mode and limited user account usage? I'd like to see more information on how these two mitigation techniques work against exploits. I suspect the...
- Tags: Web browsers, EXPLORER, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Internet Explorer, critical IE 7 zero-day flaw, IE 7 zero-day flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, zero-day bug, exploit
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Windows NT, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
- Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...
- Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- A Chrome OS Video Tour
- Microsoft: Watch Out, We're Coming to Getcha!Open Source is like water, you can't stop it.Bwahahahahahhhhhhhhhh................Man this OS is a POS.There is nothing this OS can do that I can't do already with Windows 7. It looks like a piece of crap and I really wanted to give Google the...
- Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, NaCl, Chrome, Chrome OS, Chrome OS Video Tour, operating system, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Human Body 3D Anatomy for iPhone 1.0.3 (Mobile)
- Human Body 3D Anatomy for iPhone application we talk about the major systems of the human body, showing them with complete information using lot of graphics 2D, extensive information, and 3D animations too. The index study includes skeletal system, muscular system, nervous system, endocrine system, lymphatic system, digestive system, cardiovascular...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Mobile, Nellvii
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- TechWriter for Databases 2009 (Windows)
- One of the Adivo Successful Documentation Generators, TechWriter for Databases is a Windows application that generates documentation for database tables, views, functions and procedures. It supports Access, SQL Server and Oracle. TechWriter automatically generates the documentation for your database. By collecting information about the tables, views and procedures directly from...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Documentation, Adivo, TechWriter, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
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