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IT Assessment and Strategic Plan at Oakton Community College

MTC helped Oakton complete a comprehensive IT assessment and IT strategic plan. Oakton Community College is a two-year community college in Des Plaines, Illinois, enrolling approximately 46,000 students. Oakton engaged MTC to support an IT Assessment and the development of an IT Strategic Plan. Oakton wanted support evaluating the current technology environment along with the …

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ERP Assessment and Roadmap at DePauw University

By Claire Gilbert / Recent Projects

DePauw engaged Moran Technology Consulting (MTC) to help the university determine if it should invest in its current ERP solution or replace it by using a three-part approach. DePauw University (DePauw) is a private university in Greencastle, Indiana. Founded in 1837, its student body has about 1,750 students. DePauw is a member institution of the …

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ERP Planning and Selection Support at the University of Central Florida

By Claire Gilbert / Recent Projects

MTC helped UCF navigate an ERP planning and selection project over an aggressive three month timeframe. The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a rapidly expanding research university in Orlando with over 72,000 students. UCF had been utilizing PeopleSoft HCM, Finance, and Campus Solutions for its ERP environment, but found that pressing needs for improved …

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Sponsoring EDUCAUSE’s “Women Advance Technology” Program to Advance Us All

By Charlie Moran / News

By Claire Gilbert, Sr. Consultant, Moran Technology Consulting Invariably, our client engagements include some question of people. How do I staff this major project? Is my organization structured appropriately for the strategies that we want to implement? How can we better recruit and retain employees in this increasingly competitive and nationwide (often global) market for …

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Evolution of the Higher Ed SIS Market Share, 2000 – 2020

By Charlie Moran / Research, Thought Leadership

This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH Key points: While there has been some diversification in offerings, the four SIS vendors with the greatest market share take up almost 80% of the total SIS market share, and this has been stable for …

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Lousy cooks ruin your soup….

By Charlie Moran / Thought Leadership

My wife is a great cook. We often go to the store together to buy the ingredients she needs – she buys the freshest stuff, and the right type of things, etc. We get home and there are two possible scenarios: I cook the meal; or she cooks the meal. If I cook it, the …

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Do they know something that we don’t?

By Charlie Moran / Thought Leadership

In previous posts, I’ve discussed that the downward trend in new SIS implementations. We’ve also examined how the institutions that are implementing new SIS products are largely moving to cloud-based systems. In this post, lets dig in to see Who these early adopters of cloud SIS?”. We’ve been working with LISTedTECH for data for our …

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Data Centers? We don’t need no stinking Data Centers!

By Charlie Moran / Thought Leadership

By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH * In a previous blog post, we discussed a multi-year downward trend of new Student Information System (SIS) implementations. Despite this downtrend, there are still many institutions upgrading and buying new SIS suites. In this …

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Some clouds aren’t clouds… but a truth is a truth….

By Charlie Moran / Thought Leadership

I decided to play Don Quixote and try to define cloud computing… it probably won’t work, but I’m gonna try! A few times a month, I find myself talking with a campus CIO who says “A board member says we have to move to the Cloud right away.” I say “Do they know what that …

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Current Trends in the Higher Ed SIS Market 2010 – 2018

By Charlie Moran / Research, Thought Leadership

This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH Key points: New Student Information System (SIS) implementations have been plummeting since 2011 Small to medium sized institutions with less than 10,000 students are more likely than larger institutions to install a new product in …

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