EDUCAUSE Update Common Solutions Group Spring 2014 Meeting

1. EDUCAUSE Update Common Solutions Group Spring 2014 Meeting

2. Upcoming Meetings

3. Administrative IT Summit • June 11-13 • Chicago • 120 CIOs and CFOs • Co-hosted with NACUBO • Focus: Improving the value of administrative IT www.educause.edu/events/administrative-it-summit

4. EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting • September 29-October 2 • Orlando • General session speakers: • Clay Christensen • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Nancy Zimpher

5. ECAR Research and more

6. 2014 ECAR Research • Today’s Higher Education IT Workforce • Integrated Planning and Advising Services Research • IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance • Technology in the Academic Community (students and faculty) • Top-Ten Strategic Technologies for 2014

7. Top 10 Strategic Technologies • Business intelligence reporting dashboards • Mobile apps for enterprise applications • Mobile app development • Enterprise identity and access management solutions • Learning analytics: Course level • Administrative or business performance analytics • Unified communications and collaboration • 802.11ac wireless networking standard • Virtual desktops or virtual PC applications • Learning analytics: Degree advising What are institutions tracking the most? • Adaptive learning • Gamification • Mobile data protection • Predictive analytics • E-book readers/e-textbooks • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) • The Internet of things • Text content analytics • Mashware • Open content • Big data

8. Core Data Service • Data collection opens in mid-July • We’re improving content to support measures of maturity and deployment in specific domains

9. Update from the ECAR Working Groups Website: www.educause.edu/ecar/ecar-working-groups Program Manager: Karen A. Wetzel, kwetzel@educause.edu

10. 2014 Publications • Emergency Notification StrategyENS technology strategies to consider when determining the best notification system for your institution. • An Introduction to BYOE Mobile Data CollectionAn introduction to the four main types of MDC (passive, public, crowdsourced, and private), highlighted with exploratory use cases.

11. Current Projects (Underway) • Research Data Storage: Framework for Success • Working Group: Data Management (ECAR-DM) • Est. pub. date: June 2014 • Understanding Responsive Web Design in Higher Ed • Working Group: Mobile Strategy and Application Development (ECAR-MSAD) • Est. pub. date: June 2014

12. Current Projects (Underway) – cont. • Campus Cyberinfrastructure Perspective on Big Data Series • Working Group: Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) • Introductory brief: est. pub. date July 2014 • Three subsequent series briefs: August – December 2014 • International Perspectives on the Cloud • ECAR-WG Strategies Committee • Est. pub. date: August 2014

13. Current Projects (Underway) – cont. • Improving Institutional Collaboration through Unified Communications: A Study of Current Implementations • Working Group: Communications Infrastructure and Applications (ECAR-CIA) • Est. pub. date: September 2014 • Calculating the TCO for Web Services • Working Group: TCO for Web Services (ECAR-TCO) • Est. pub. date: September 2014 • IT Service Catalog Core Services and Best Practices • Working Group: IT Service Catalog (ECAR-SC) • Est. pub. date: October 2014

14. Projects in the Proposal Stage • Software-defined networking (SDN) • Approaches to supporting traditional telephone services (POTs) • Use of mobile platforms in student recruitment • Developing a canonical BI dashboard • Predictive analytics • Workforce development • Cost of digital libraries Submit ideas for new projects online: www.educause.edu/ecar/ecar-working-groups

15. EDUCAUSE Betsy Tippens Reinitz Director, Administrative IT Programs breinitz@educause.edu