by Jim Phelps

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SOA from the Registrar’s Perspective
[30 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 57 views]

Just had a hallway (okay, exhibit floor conversation) with Tom Black of Stanford University. They have ideas on embedded enrollment functions in several places: inside their LMS, available via iPhone applications and elsewhere. They would expose those enrollment functions as services then write to those services. Interesting. We also talked about orchestrating a flow, click [...]

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CG Leaders Meeting @ EDUCAUSE 2008
[28 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 29 views]

Introductions of people. A lot of interesting constituent groups that I didn’t realize existed: I.T. Metrics, Learning Space Design. http://www.educause.edu/groups
Cynthia Golden – VP for EDUCAUSE is doing the EDUCAUSE update.
There was a new President last year. They have been doing a lot of change management over the past year. There is a [...]

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Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
[15 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 235 views]

Robert Handler of Gartner is presenting.
This is one of seven Key Initiatives for Enterprise Architecture.
“Failure to… change the behavior of others leads to failure itself”. You must understand the people aspects and you must sell EA to succeed.
They had 600+ clients take a maturity survey to see where they are at in the area of [...]

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Advanced CAMP – Part 3
[20 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 17 views]

Merri Beth Lavagnino – Privacy and Policy
Policy and privacy are really consideration of the human aspects and impacts of technology. Policies are: strategic direction and operating philosophy (which are usually informal and cultural), Public and Institutional policies (these are both documented and usually legal documents).
Institutional policy – a statement that reflect the philosophies and [...]

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Advanced CAMP – Part 2
[19 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 34 views]

Dave Gimpl: Computing as a Service
Infrastructure for vaporware. They are working on the infrastructure that enables cloud-computing.
Challenges in the data center: rising costs of the operations, the explosion of data, the difficulty of deploying new application and services, the difficulty in managing complex virtual machine systems. When you map the business processes, they map [...]