x2 advisory council

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

A break from the Classmate to talk SIS

I decided to take a short break from my ongoing series on Intel's Classmate PC to give a little insight into the state of the art in student information systems. I recently attended a meeting of the X2 Advisory Council (a standing "focus group" assembled by our SIS developer)...

Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Web, SiS, X2 Advisory Council, AJAX, Channel Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Additional Resources

Overcoming the laptop wall

Yesterday, I asked for input on university IT issues and received several emails, Tweets, and talkbacks. The first email in my inbox was about the laptop wall with which so many lecturers are confronted at universities. Since this brings up a whole host of issues, I'd actually like...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Wall, Laptop Wall, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Live from the X2 Community Conference

I'm at the X2 Development Corporation Community Conference for the next two days. It's an annual event that our SIS vendor puts on to bring together end users (power, guru, new, and otherwise) and, not surprisingly, build community among their growing cadre of school districts. Obviously,...

Tags: District, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, Help Desk, Call Centers, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-06

The top 10 things you'd change about your SIS

I went to a meeting yesterday of the X2 Advisory Council. This is a group of users/tech director types that our student information system developer (X2 Development Corporation) set up to to help drive product development cycles for the Aspen SIS. We meet roughly once a quarter to...

Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Information System, SiS, Product Development, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-12