Enterprise Infrastructure

The Higher Education Reference Models

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:11:20 Z

The Higher Education Reference Models provide standardized business and data architectures that communicate a generalized view of how higher education institutions are organized and the information they use.

Flexibility, Agility, and the Three Dx Shifts: Culture, Workforce, and Technology

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:10:09 Z

Institutional adaptivity is crucial for success in today’s higher education landscape, especially as institutions make the many cultural, workforce, and technology shifts needed to digitally transform their institutional operations, value propositions, and strategic directions

Higher Education’s 2020 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:51:07 Z

The 2020 Trend Watch and Top 10 Strategic Technologies report focuses on those trends, technologies, and practices that are going to be most influential and receive the most attention from IT leaders as they face shifting higher ed, social, political, and technological landscapes in the year ahead. A focus on security and privacy, student success, and the promises and pitfalls of data will exert a great deal of influence on IT strategy in 2020. And IT leaders will be concentrating their attention on technologies and practices that enrich student experiences and success and advance their institution’s capabilities in safely and systematically using data resources.

Architecting the IT Organization

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:06:04 Z

IT organizations are pursuing growth in three fundamental practice areas to direct the development and delivery of IT services that maximize value to the institution and ensure alignment with its goals.

Higher Education’s 2019 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:18:18 Z

This research examines technological investments institutions will spend the most time implementing, planning, and tracking in 2019, as well as the related trends that could influence institutional IT strategy.

Report from the 2018 EDUCAUSE Task Force on Digital Transformation

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:02:36 Z

In 2018, EDUCAUSE convened a group of nine IT leaders to discuss what digital transformation (Dx) means to higher education IT and to consider what EDUCAUSE should do to help members understand and embrace Dx in a way that positions them to provide leadership for their own institutional efforts in this evolution.

Digital Strategy Environmental Scan

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:45:22 Z

Athenaeum21 (A21) was hired by Concordia University by the committee charged with creating a path-breaking digital strategy for the University.

Delivering Digital Change: Strategy, Practice and Process

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:24:59 Z

This JISC paper offers practical approaches to integrating digital in your key organisational strategies.

Trend Watch 2017: Which IT Trends Is Higher Education Responding To?

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:30:10 Z

EDUCAUSE is in its third year of identifying the influence of major trends on the IT strategy of colleges and universities. This year’s list included 36 trends in the management and delivery of IT services, personal devices and personalized environments, data and analytics, teaching and learning, security and risk, and the Internet of Things

Cross-Enterprise Partnerships: Serving and Succeeding Together

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:55:16 Z

Leaders from higher education information technology (IT), business, and finance met in Phoenix in March 2017 to discuss how cross-enterprise relationships can address institutional challenges and what college and university leaders can do to foster those relationships.

2017 Trends and Technologies: Infrastructure and Operations

Tue, 09 May 2017 15:58:27 Z

This report covers the 17 technologies and 11 trends included in the infrastructure and operations domain.

2017 Trends and Technologies: Cloud

Thu, 04 May 2017 14:40:00 Z

This report covers the 12 technologies and 8 trends included in the cloud domain.

IT Leadership in Higher Education, 2016: The Enterprise Architect

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:40:07 Z

The audiences for this report are EAs themselves, those who aspire to be EAs, and those to whom EAs report. This report can help all of these stakeholder groups understand the job of EA—at their local institution and elsewhere—and compare it to a higher education–wide “baseline.”

Enterprise Architect Survey 2016

Tue, 03 May 2016 19:21:38 Z

This survey seeks to understand skills required of enterprise architect leaders in higher education.

IT Infrastructure Projects: A Framework for Analysis

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:36:36 Z

Just as maintaining a healthy infrastructure of water delivery and roads is essential to the functioning of cities and towns, maintaining a healthy infrastructure of information technology is essential to the functioning of universities.

Transitioning to IPv6

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:35:51 Z

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the named successor to the current networking protocol that supports the transport of traffic across the Internet, is a more mature standard that appropriately balances compatibility against the addition of capabilities and enhancements that are important for current and future growth of the Internet.

Analytics for Enterprise Efficiency and Effectiveness

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:31:34 Z

How is analytics used in the enterprise area? What kinds of data governance, policies and infrastructure need to be in place to ensure effective institutional use of analytics?