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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)
Q&A: Agile Business Intelligence Presents Challenges, Rewards
Moving toward faster, more iterative business intelligence projects is a promising goal, but it takes practice.
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Campus Technology
Moving to an Open Source LMS: 3 Stories
The rewards -- and pitfalls -- of migrating to an open source learning management system, as told by three smaller institutions.
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Campus Technology
U Alabama Mines Data to Boost Enrollment, Retention
First-year enrollment at the University of Alabama is up 40 percent, at least in part because the school is using a sophisticated data analysis product to gauge which students to target in enrollment and retention campaigns.
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Campus Technology
Creating Life-Size Molecules in Second Life
The debate continues over just how useful virtual worlds like Second Life are for educational purposes. We spoke with Drexel University's Jean-Claude Bradley, who is e-learning coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences, and an associate professor of chemistry.
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Campus Technology
Ball State Dials in Network Management
Managing the network on a university campus may not be the most glamorous of jobs, but it's certainly a critical one. Just listen to the howls should the network go down
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IT Compliance Institute
Case Study: A Healthy Sense of Security
While reacting to changes in the market, a health care services company has proactively tightened down security beyond HIPAA and aims for certification on the relatively tough ISO 27001 standard.
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Campus Technology
Podcasting on a Shoestring
A feisty online program director on a rock-bottom budget at a Los Angeles college is using free cast-off computers and help from an open source software startup to create podcasts of classroom lectures.
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Business Intelligence Journal
Business Intelligence Case Study
1. Cleaner Data Allows Better Policing, 2. Software-as-a-Service Helps Firm Better Analyze Sales Pipeline (membership required to access these articles)
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IT Compliance Institute
Best Practices: Shoring up your Framework
No single enterprise risk management framework is comprehensive enough to guide your company in meeting all of its compliance, governance, and risk management needs. Instead, you’ll want to selectively combine standards by building around a central framework, such as COSO or AS/NZS 4360, and reinforcing it with one or more of these risk assessment standards.
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IT Compliance Institute
Ed Light: Ten Easy Ways to Score Fast CPE Credits
If you've earned a professional certification, you're ahead of the game. Now, don't let that new load of continuing education requirements drag you down. Here are 10 ways to earn education credits at little or no cost, often at your own keyboard, while learning something useful at the same time.
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IT Compliance Institute
Private Lessons: Public Sector Notes on Security
Although the spotlight tends to shine on the poor grades federal agencies receive for their information security efforts, notable security successes in government are often overlooked.
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Campus Technology
Fighting Fire with Fire
The internet has made it easier than ever for students to illegally copy content, but anti-plagiarism tools are helping educators fight back.
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Campus Technology
Dare to Share
Pressed for dollars and resources, smaller institutions of higher education are discovering that sharing software, data management, and expertise is key to DDD success.
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IT Compliance Institute
Complaisant or Compliant: Training Employees to Care
In compliance, a focus on technical security can eclipse human factors.
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IT Compliance Institute
Moving Targets: The Risk of Mobile Devices
How mobile data management presents a risk versus reward scenario for business.
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IT Compliance Institute
Yabba Dabbawala : Lessons in Six-Sigma Quality Control for Compliance
The greatest sources of inspiration are often found in the strangest places. Thus, compliance management can take a lesson from lunchtime in Mumbai, where a 99.9999 accuracy rate in meal manufacturing and distribution offers a model of efficiency and control for complex compliance processes.
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IT Compliance Institute
The Best Compliance Resource You Don’t Know About
Government agencies that struggle with security and information privacy issues—and yes, private industry, you can take heart from the fact that there are plenty—surely cringe when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) comes calling.
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Campus Technology
Where Green and IT Meet
Here are some interesting facts you may not know: U.S. colleges and universities spend nearly $2 billion each year on energy, according to the federal government. And the Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that the average PC wastes up to 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year simply by running at full power when no user is present.
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Campus Technology
Data-Driven Decision-Making: It’s a Catch-Up Game
Feeling the pressing need for sophisticated business intelligence solutions and processes, higher ed looks for models—-wherever they exist.
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Campus Technology
Should We Outsource IT?
Smart schools are discovering that by freeing up IT to focus on core competiencies, outsourcing may be the great higher ed ‘enabler.’
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