Florida International University
Imagine being free to start from scratch—creating an entire technology platform without any restrictions to serve your new enterprise. That was the enviable position of Robert Rodely, chief technology officer for the brand new Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. Some two years before the first students arrived on campus in 2009, Rodely was brought in to design and implement the school’s educational and administrative technology platform. And he built it from the ground up using HP technology.
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Queens University of Charlotte
North Carolina’s Queens University of Charlotte wanted to better support its community’s need for online education. Queens knew that online offerings and Web-based support for faculty would enhance the school’s ability to attract faculty and students. Queens deployed Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, the Microsoft Learning Gateway portal, and the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit to create a portal with customized sites for every course offered at Queens.
University of Florida
As the state of Florida’s leading university, the University of Florida (UF) offers state-of-the-art facilities and comprehensive academic programs. The university focuses on continuously enhancing its technology tools to benefit staff and students. Environmental sustainability and “green IT” are major goals for the university, so when UF recently qualified for federal stimulus funds, it decided to use some of the funds to deploy a video conferencing solution based on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The solution will enhance employee collaboration, reduce meeting-related travel, and is projected to decrease fuel consumption and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by several metric tons annually. Acquiring software licensing through the Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License suite provides the university with several additional capabilities at no extra charge.
University of Washington
The University of Washington wanted to provide students and alumni with optional, self-serve access to an alternative email service other than its own and to other web-based email offerings. It chose Microsoft Live@edu hosted collaboration services and deployed a web application that automates account provisioning. Today, the university is offering a new email service that meets the expectations of its technically savvy students and alumni.
