The Information Technology Track contains sessions designed specifically for IT/IS department managers and staff, delivering practical tips and techniques to help you use your Campus Management products more efficiently and effectively.

CampusLink APIs
Presenter: Phil Cutajar

Institutions continue to develop unique in-house applications or purchase third party point solutions which need to be integrated with the core administrative system. These integrations can streamline process workflow and enterprise analysis and reporting. CampusLink APIs provide a robust, supportable, non-brittle interface between CampusVue, CampusPortal, and other vital applications, such as Moodle or your own custom application. Learn about the six CampusLink APIs, the integration points they enable and the diverse set of technologies that may be utilized along with CampusVue and CampusPortal.

CampusVue Technical Support: Best Practices
Presenter: Tony Fano, Karen Scott-Malcolm

The Campus Management technical support team will discuss the most common support calls and how to address the challenges.

System Architecture and Infrastructure Deployment: The Changing Hardware Footprint
Presenter: Phil Cutajar, Kirk Whitehead

Campus Management’s commitment to deliver the most innovative solutions to our customers sometimes requires new technology and as a result, new infrastructure.  The continuous evolution of CampusVue, CampusPortal and CampusLink APIs bring exciting new features to customers.  Attend this session to learn how best to deploy your Campus solutions at your institution to ensure you are adequately prepared for the next few years of innovation. In this session, we will review the various technical architecture components related to our Campus suite of products, including the Campus Middle Tier. We will present best practices in system setup, deployment and fault avoidance.

Best Practices: Campus Upgrades and Application Expectations
Presenter: Kirk Whitehead

This session will examine the most common issue that can occur for installs and upgrades.  Discussion will include Service Accounts, Group Policy, Firewalls, Local and Domain Security Policies and user rights for successful deployments on a consistent basis. We will also examine the impact that Service Packs can cause with DTC and MTS communication between the CampusVue Business Object Server and the SQL DB Server.

CampusNet: Turnkey Managed Infrastructure
Presenter: Chris Flint, Ferda Kavak

Learn how CampusNet managed services group can give you a Champagne infrastructure on a root beer budget.  This high performance service can help you reduce capital expenditures and free you from time-consuming tasks, managing hardware and application technology.

Best Practices to Create a Dynamic, Targeted Enterprise Institutional Portal
Presenter: Brent Ramdin

Learn how your students can log into a personalized portal with targeted content and applications based on their program or any other student characteristics. Enhance communications, create community and create virtual “stickiness” by extending CampusPortal and enabling exciting new functionality. Attend this session to ensure that your institution is taking advantage of the possibilities within new .NET 3.0 CampusPortal.

Integration and Automation: Using Packaged Solutions with CampusVue
Presenter: Pablo Civalero

Do you need to reduce the time it takes to get a lead into CampusVue from your high-volume lead vendor?  Are your student registrations in CampusVue out of synch with your LMS? Are you manually posting bookstore transactions into CampusVue?  Come to this session to learn about the custom integration services and pre-packaged automation solutions our experienced Integration Services team has to offer to remove process roadblocks and improve the speed of your business.

Maintaining your CampusVue SQL Server 2005 Environment for Optimum Performance
Presenter: Phil Cutaja, Alex Platonov

Optimum performance of your CampusVue enterprise software is often dependent on a well maintained and well managed database. Attendees to this session will learn how to monitor key metrics in the SQL Server database, diagnose and troubleshoot common performance bottlenecks and identify blocking activity. The session will also cover key considerations in implementing replication for reporting and failover recovery, routine and periodic maintenance, and strategic new features introduced in SQL Server 2005.