CAMPUSEAI CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES DESIGN AND TRAINING SERVICES FOR MYCAMPUS 6.4.1 THEME CUSTOMIZATION

Cleveland – August 6, 2010 – CampusEAI Consortium today announced the availability of Design and Training Services for Theme Customization for the myCampus campus portal. CampusEAI’s Design and Training Services are Theme Customization is available to members currently utilizing myCampus 6.4.1 and later versions.
As part of CampusEAI’s Design Services, Members may engage CampusEAI to customize or develop themes using the following stages:
• Discovery & Assessment
• Design Implementation
• Staff Augmentation

In addition to Design Services, CampusEAI has made available live, instructor-led course through its myCampus Training Services. For the month of August, members can register for the following courses:
• myCampus Design and Styles Administration
o Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010 (part 1) and Friday August 13, 2010 (part 2)
o Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM EST – 6 hours over 2 sessions
o Cost: $367.62 per person
Institutions that have recently selected the CampusEAI Design and Training Services for Theme Customizations include:
• Lehigh Carbon Community College
• Pitt Community College
• New York Institute of Technology
• Samuel Meritt University

Samuel Merritt University’s myCampus Portal with Custom Theme

Leigh Carbon Community College’s myCampus Portal with Custom Theme
Heather Kuhns, Associate Dean of Advancement of Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) relayed LCCC student demonstration reviews as “something LCCC should be proud of-students are going to be wowed” and “A portal of this caliber and quality puts us on par with four-year universities.”
“We are pleased to announce myCampus 6.4.1 Design Services for Theme Customization,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “Our objective in provisioning these services is to enable institutions to deliver a fresh new look to students that is attractive and fun.”
For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website http://www.campuseai.org.

About myCampus

myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information. For more information on myCampus, visit
http://www.campuseai.org/Products/campus_portal_overview.html

CampusEAI Consortium Announces myCampus 6.4.1 Release

 

July 8, 2010 – CampusEAI Consortium today announced the availablity of myCampus 6.4.1, the latest evolution of the widely implemented myCampus Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) campus portal that provides current and prospective students, faculty and staff, administration and alumni with one stop access to their academic and social lives.

The new 6.4.1 version of myCampus includes the following features:

• New Design Template
• Dashboard Porltet for Blackboard^® displaying users’ courses and announcements
• CAS Multiple Directory Support for both authentication and authorization
• New Password Reset and Password Expiry features
• LightBox™ – supported pop up configuration options for Alerts and Announcements
• Improved QuickLaunch with better support for external application integration
• Improved Document Library permissions and inheritance
• Security and performance upgrades
• Defect and bug fixes from previous myCampus Releases
• Improved Federated Instant Messaging Documentation

“With the myCampus 6.4.1 release, our members will enjoy security, performance and feature enhancements,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “With the myCampus 6.4.1. release, we have been able to successfully demonstrate that by proactively involving our members in the decision making process, we can produce exciting new features and prevent each campus from reinventing the wheel. We look forward to providing additional opportunities for our members to participate in the myCampus product development process as we plan and implement our next major myCampus release.”

Additional information and release notes are available on the CampusEAI Consortium Community Site.

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.CampusEAI.org.

About myCampus

myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information. For more information on myCampus, visit www.campuseai.org/mycampus-campus-portal

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global not-for-profit information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

¹The Jasig Central Authentication Service (CAS) was originally developed by Yale University. It has since become a Jasig project. CampusEAI is not a partner, affiliate nor does an agency relationship exist between Blackboard^® , Jasig or Lightbox™ and CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not develop market or distribute Blackboard^® , Jasig or Lightbox™ solutions or services. Neither Blackboard ,Jasig or Lightbox endorse the products or services of CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not endorse the products or services of Blackboard^® , Jasig or Lightbox™.

University of Adelaide Launches myCampus Enterprise Edition

July 14, 2010 – The University of Adelaide(UOA), located in Adelaide, Australia, has launched CampusEAI Consortium’s myCampus Enterprise Edition for High Availability, a Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) campus portal solution that provides students, administrators, faculty and alumni with access to their academic and social information all in one place.

UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability allowed the University to serve up to 1,400 concurrent users during peak usage times such as student enrollment .

Statistics about UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability includes:

• myCampus Enterprise Edition project kicked off on December 15, 2009
• The myCampus Enterprise Edition portal system went live February 22, 2010
• The portal averaged 3,500 logins daily during the first week of the semester
• The portal currently averages 4,500 logins per weekday
• To date, there have been 306,000 logins by 9,700 unique users, about half of all students, in the three months since the portal launched.

UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability provides content and document management, portal capabilities, and the following features:

• QuickLaunch – Single-Sign-On Integration to systems such as¹:
  • Oracle^® PeopleSoft^®
  • Blackboard^®
  • Google^® Mail
  • Moodle^®
• Targeted Alerts – Notifies users of campus announcements
• Mail and Calendar portlets
• Campus Maps
• News feeds via RSS
• Online help and feedback

myCampus Enterprise Edition is designed for large institutions, university systems and existing myCampus users with requirements for additional performance, scalability, availability and redundancy and should be considered by:

• Institutions with over 10,000 FTE
• Institutions that use myCampus as the single and only point-of-access to all enterprise applications
• Institutions that use myCampus Web Content Management System to power their public website
• Institutions that use myCampus Standard Edition that need to increase scalability and high-availability.

“The University of Adelaide truly appreciates CampusEAI’s efforts on our myCampus build,” said Peter Duldig, Portal Project Director at the University of Adelaide. “It doesn’t get any better than how CampusEAI have gone about delivering, communicating and coordinating. CampusEAI’s sense of leadership, ownership and can do attitude is of the highest order. The University of Adelaide portal project is one of the University’s highest profile projects and a great success story. We look forward to an ongoing relationship with CampusEAI.”

“We are pleased to be able to support the University of Adelaide’s portal objectives with our myCampus Enterprise Edition for High Availability,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “It is an honor to assist the University in continuing to serve the growing needs of its community.”

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.CampusEAI.org.

About myCampus

myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information. For more information on myCampus, visit www.campuseai.org/mycampus-campus-portal

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services  and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT  solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the  CampusEAI Consortium, including University of Arizona,  Albany State University, University of Maine at Farmington, Curry College, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Staffordshire University and The  Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

About University of Adelaide

Since its establishment in 1874, the University of Adelaide has been amongst Australia’s leading universities. Its contribution to the wealth and well being of South Australia as a whole – across all fields of endeavor – has been enormous. It is the third-oldest university in Australia, and became the first Australian university to admit women to academic courses in 1881. Adelaide was also the first Australian university to grant degrees in Science and establish a Conservatorium of Music. Since its foundation, the University has produced 102 Rhodes Scholars.

Adelaide’s research is at the leading edge of knowledge, with researching earnings consistently the highest per capita of any university in Australia. Analysis of the impact of publications and citations shows that the University of Adelaide is ranked in the top 1% in the world in 11 research fields.

An innovative and forward-looking university, Adelaide has major strengths in wine and food, health sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, information technology and telecommunications, environmental sciences and social sciences.

CampusEAI Consortium Announces myCampus Portal Grants for Higher Education and K-12 Institutions

June 19, 2010 – CampusEAI Consortium is pleased to announce the myCampus Portal Grant program for institutions that are looking to switch from an existing portal solution or implement the myCampus Campus Portal. Through the Grant Program, funding is available to a limited number of higher education and K-12 institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

The myCampus Portal Grant Program is designed to cover and provide support for the costs and services associated with implementing a myCampus Portal solution, which can range between $250,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the size and requirements of the school.

Costs covered by the myCampus Portal Grant Program include:

• Software and Software Maintenance
  • myCampus Campus Portal
  • Web Content Management System
  • myCampus Prospective Student Portal
  • myCampus Alumni Portal Software Platform
  • myCampus ePortfolio
  • myCampus software patches, updates, releases and Upgrades
• Professional Services
  • Assisted Project Management
  • Installation and configuration
  • User interface design
  • Single sign-on integrations to Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Learning Management Systems, Email and Calendaring Systems and Library Management Systems
  • Portal Identity Management Integration
  • Training
  • Quality Assurance and Performance Testing
• Hosting/Cloud Infrastructure and Services
  • Hosting on the CampusEAI Consortium Private Cloud
  • Enterprise-grade datacenter facility
  • Multi-homed, redundant internet connectivity
  • Bulletproof network, application and physical security
  • Comprehensive backup and recovery operations
  • Administration and management of the network, operating system, application and physical equipment
  • 24x7x365 Network Operations Center staffed by a team of engineers monitoring your applications around the clock
  • Application Administration and Management – a dedicated team of application engineers and administrators
  • Database Administration Management – on-site database administrators to monitor this crucial service
• Support
  • 9:00 am – 5:00 pm M-F support for Priority 1 issues
  • Support services options through phone, email, support portal, and instant message.

Moving to myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, enables academic institutions to accomplish strategic IT goals and objectives through single sign-on integrated technology that caters to the needs of their campus communities: current and prospective students, student organizations, faculty and staff, administration and alumni.

In addition to receiving funding, goods and services as part of the myCampus Portal Grant, recipients will be given opportunities to access the efficacy of the myCampus Portal and contribute to the future of the product by proposing new applications, improvements and updates.

CampusEAI Consortium selects Portal Grant recipients based on a number of categories, including commitment to IT initiatives, strong academic alliances, compatibility with CampusEAI Consortium technology goals and the ability to implement the myCampus Portal effectively. Grant applications must be received before 5:00 pm EST on Friday, September 3, 2010 for consideration. Further information about the Grant process, including application ballots, is located on the CampusEAI website.

“We are happy to once again announce the availability of a limited number of portal grants through our successful myCampus Portal Grant Program,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “By giving schools the resources they need to maintain a commitment to information technology initiatives, we are also giving them the resources to create and maintain a consistently high quality student body, faculty, alumni network and campus community.”

For further information on the myCampus Portal Grant Program and to complete a grant application for institutions in the United States and Canada, contact Jas Singh at ceaigrant@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.CampusEAI.org.

For further information on the myCampus Portal Grant Program and to complete a grant application for institutions in Europe, Asia and Australia, contact Jonathan Mullapudy at jonathan_mullapudy@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.CampusEAI.org.

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

About myCampus

myCampus is the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information. For more information on myCampus, visit http://www.campuseai.org/products/campus_portal_overview.html

The University of Scranton selects CampusEAI Consortium as its Oracle® Identity Manager Implementation Partner

July 22, 2010 – The University of Scranton, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania has selected CampusEAI Consortium as their Oracle^® Identity Manager implementation partner.

In this role, CampusEAI, which is a member of the Oracle^® Partner Network, will provide a variety of support services for the University’s enterprise identity and access management service. These services include¹:

• Pre-implementation onsite support, including:
   
  • SunGard^® Banner^® user data migration
  • Schema definition
  • Identity template creation for SunGard^® Banner^® and Active Directory^®
  • Branding
  • Workflow processes
• Remote implementation support, including:
  • Environmental setup
  • Building resource schema
  • Developing workflows
  • Developing account user policies
  • Developing business rules
• Use case testing
• Production release support, including code deployment
• Tracking Issues
• Project Communication and coordination.

Support services, including those provided to the University of Scranton as an Oracle^® Identity Manager Implementation Partner, are available through the CampusEAI Oracle^® Enterprise Identity and Access Management Practice.

This practice provides implementation and integration services for the following Oracle^® products:

• Oracle^® Identity Manager^®
• Oracle^® Access Manager^®
• Oracle^® Directory Services^®
• Oracle^® Waveset^®

Institutions which have already selected CampusEAI as their Oracle^® enterprise identity and access management implementation partner include:

• California State University, Los Angeles (Oracle^® PeopleSoft^®)
• Touro College (Jenzabar^®)
• Antioch University (Datatel^®)
• Loyola Marymount University (SunGard^® Banner^® and Oracle^® Apps^®)

“CampusEAI is pleased to have been selected by The University of Scranton to support their enterprise identity and access management needs,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of CampusEAI Consortium. “By selecting CampusEAI for EIDM services, the University is encouraging its students, faculty, administrators and other user groups to freely create and access content without the risk of identity theft or other security breaches.”

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Jas Singh at jas_singh@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website www.campuseai.org.

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global not-for-profit information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

University of Scranton

The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Jesuit university, founded in 1888. The University is composed of four colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, The Kania School of Management, The Panuska College of Professional Studies, and The College of Graduate and Continuing Education. The University offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy program in addition to its undergraduate and graduate courses. For more information, please visit www.scranton.edu.

CampusEAI Consortium Announces Private Cloud for Higher Education – Private Cloud enables institutions to host enterprise applications

Private Cloud enables institutions to host enterprise applications

July 27, 2010 – CampusEAI Consortium today announced the availability of the CampusEAI Consortium Private Cloud for higher education. The CampusEAI Private Cloud is powered by industry vendors and service providers including Dell^® (Nasdaq GS: DELL), AT&T^® (NYSE: T), NetApp^® (Nasdaq GS: NTAP), VMware^® (NYSE: VMW), Symantec^® (Nasdaq GS:SYMC), Equinix^® (Nasdaq GS: EQIX) and Cisco^® (Nasdaq GS: CSCO).

The CampusEAI Private Cloud is an elastic, scalable platform that allows colleges and universities to host enterprise applications including:

• Enterprise Resource Planning/Student Information Systems
• Student/Campus Portal Systems
• Prospective Student Portal Systems
• Alumni Portal Systems
• ePortfolio Systems
• Web Content Management Systems
• Identity Management Systems
• Learning Management Systems

The elastic architecture of the CampusEAI Private Cloud consists of a multi-homed Cisco^® -powered network, Dell^® -powered servers, NetApp^® -powered storage, VMware^® -powered-virtualization and Symantec^® -powered backup and recovery. The system resides in Equinix^® -powered data centers. CampusEAI Consortium’s 24x7x365 network operations center monitors the uptime and security of the enterprise applications in CampusEAI Private Cloud.

Members benefit from moving to the CampusEAI Private Cloud in many ways, including:

• Elasticity and scalability. CampusEAI Private Cloud enables computing on demand by providing the ability to increase the supply of computing resources as they are needed to deal with spikes in demand for a particular application or service. Computing resources are turned into a commodity so more can be added over time, as needed, to ensure systems are almost infinitely scalable. 
• Lower costs. A fundamental attraction of the CampusEAI Private Cloud is that it can provide an opportunity to reduce costs. Savings come from the use of computing resources based at one or more low-cost locations, which are managed efficiently using automation, and by realizing economies of scale stemming from the use of specialist staff members managing large quantities of computing resources.

 

Institutions which have already moved to the CampusEAI Private Cloud include:

• University of North Carolina Wilmington: utilizing the Cloud for hosting myCampus campus portal
• Waynesburg University: utilizing the Cloud for hosting public website and web content management system
• Touro College: utilizing the Cloud for hosting Oracle-based enterprise identity and access management services (EIDM)
• Albany State University: utilizing the Cloud for hosting myCampus-based alumni portal, capital campaign and public website
• Curry College: utilizing the Cloud for hosting myCampus-based admitted student portal, myCampus-based parent portal and myCampus-based campus portal.

“We are excited to make the CampusEAI Private Cloud available to higher education institutions,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “We look forward to helping our member institutions improve the quality of service and reduce the cost of operating their enterprise applications.”

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.campuseai.org.

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

CampusEAI Consortium Announces Plans to Launch myCampus eCourses Social Learning Platform

eCourses to be delivered as a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service solution

August 4, 2010 – CampusEAI Consortium announces plans to release myCampus eCourses, a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) social learning platform. myCampus eCourses will be released to existing members as an optional feature for myCampus 7.0.

myCampus eCourses will serve as an educational platform and social learning platform to support online learning, enabling universities to offer online classes as well as blended courses. myCampus eCourses functionality will include:

• Announcements
• Documents
• eMail
• Surveys
• Discussion Board
• Calendar Sync
• Syllabus
• Calendar
• Gradebook
• Web Content Management
• Library Database Integrations
• Instant Messaging
• Wiki
• Blogs

myCampus eCourses will be a SaaS-based feature and maintained centrally by CampusEAI, which will eliminate the need for college and university IT staff to download and apply patches and upgrades.

myCampus eCourses will be available for deployment on-site and on CampusEAI Consortium’s Private Cloud for Higher Education, a 24x7x365 high-performance computer cluster that is designed to reduce up front capital expenditures, ease the utilization of an institution’s technical resources and ensure high performance, availability, stability and security.

“We are pleased to announce plans to release myCampus eCourses,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “This will be a positive addition to myCampus as it enables our institutions to consolidate and reduce the cost of their current teaching and learning IT infrastructure.”

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website www.campuseai.org.

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

About myCampus

myCampus is the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information.  For more information on myCampus, visit http://www.campuseai.org/products/campus_portal_overview.html

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