Posted in CIO, General CIS on Oct 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
Over the summer SUNY Delhi’s Edward Stammel, Adjunct Instructor, Business & Hospitality Division, contacted his department dean and CIS to discuss creating a new section for CITA 110, Introduction to Software Applications. Professor Stammel wrote: The nature of Information Technology is undergoing a major revolution. The old way of doing things with corporate controlled networks running [...]
Posted in CIO, General CIS on Sep 5th, 2009 Comments Off
Back in July I posted to the “As Much By Writing” blog a screenshot captured from my computer when Google was down. By posting this, I was trying to highlight even technology giants–those universally accepted as leaders and innovators, and who have relatively unlimited resources compared to SUNY Delhi (technical, financial and staff)–can run into [...]
Posted in CIO, Campus Technology Services, General CIS, HelpDesk, Systems and Networking on Jul 5th, 2009 Comments Off
Posted in Bits & Bytes, CIO, IT Research on Jun 5th, 2009 Comments Off
I just got back from the Atlassian Summit. In addition to learning about the latest functionality available in Confluence, I was able to check out some of the incredible examples of Confluence deployments that other organizations have developed. SUNY Delhi is in great company with its deployment of an enterprise wiki, with other attendees from [...]
Posted in Banner Operations, CIO, Project Management on May 25th, 2009 Comments Off
Forrester analyst Randy Heffner, has published a report titled “SOA [Service Oriented Architecture] Is Far From Dead—But It Should Be Buried.” Sparked by a tinderbox of economic jitters and technology backlash, a recent thread of industry discussion cries out, ‘SOA is dead!’ Although many have had fun with the discussion, it is in fact quite [...]
Posted in CIO on Feb 11th, 2009 Comments Off
I just read an interesting post from Carl Pritchard of the Cutter Consortium, entitled “Making Business Decisions: The Voices We Value.” Within the article, Mr. Pritchard notes the conclusions of a recent Cutter Benchmark Review that highlights “the value of trusting those we have chosen to trust historically and the limited amount of sway that [...]
Posted in CIO, Campus Technology Services, General CIS, IT Research on Jul 29th, 2008 Comments Off
I am spending the week at Campus Technology Magazine’s Next-Gen Conference. Over the week I thought it would be interesting to post the sessions I have attended in order to not only share some of the ideas presented, but hopefully foster a little discussion. I will be adding to this post, rather than adding multiple [...]