All Consortium member institutions have benefited from the CEAI Oracle Portal Grants, CEAI Collaborative Technologies, IP Television, CEAI Training, CEAI Advanced Consulting and other solutions and services. Below is a collection of comments regarding the successes that members/corporate partners witnessed by employing our solutions and services:
myCampus
"McGill's goal was to find a single solution that would present current McGill people a view of the University based on the individual's identity, role, preference and function. The CampusEAI Oracle Portal will simplify access to McGill IST infrastructure by serving as a single, secure and user-friendly point of entry into and exit from multiple information systems and technologies, streamline access to structured and unstructured data, tighten enterprise system and data security, and allow for a de-centralized and delegated creation and management of content and control of work flow functions."
-Anthony Masi, Deputy Provost and Chief Information Officer at McGill University
"The portal will be the focal point for the online McGill experience. The initial focus of our portal effort is going to be a student portal, but we expect to extend the portal quickly to provide services for faculty, staff, and eventually alumni and prospective students. We will use the portal to improve communications and online collaboration. And we expect to smooth out the user experience with some of our administrative processes by integrating backend systems through the portal. "
-Rumki Mukutmoni, Project Manager of McGill University
"The integration of Oracle Portal with WebCT provides myUNLV with unified front-end for teaching and learning as well as campus administration. Now, with one username and password, students can access teaching and learning tools and conduct all essential campus activities, via a single online destination, including administrative functions such as enrollment, course registration and checking grades."
-Don Diener, Vice Provost for Information Technology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"The CampusEAI Oracle Portal streamlines access to online services with one user name and password that authenticates and authorizes an individual to access e-mail, calendar, and library accounts. It allows everyone associated with the University to have personalized access to the resources they use, whether he or she is a current or prospective student or an employee. A variety of other services include campus information and events, announcements, surveys, news feeds and a campus directory."
-Mary Doyle, Chief Information Officer of Washington State University
CEAI Community Development Center (CDC)
"Retaining a commercial consulting service is a hit or miss proposition. Even if you are fortunate enough to find someone who isn't merely pushing a specific product, you must often devote a good deal of time and energy educating the consultant about the goals and constraints of institutions of higher education. The CEAI Peer-to-Peer Consulting service will make it much easier to find the expertise we need by providing access to experts within higher education --often people who have already solved the very problems facing our University at their own institutions."
-Don Diener Assistant Vice Provost for Information Technology, Univesity of Nevada, Las Vegas
"In order to make community portlet construction and sharing practical a number of portlet design and standards issues need to be addressed. We believe it is very important that the basis for community design and development of portlets be standardized within the CampusEAI Consortium on web services and WSRP standards."
-Phil Scuderi, Information Systems Standards Coordinator at Washington State University
"We are delighted that the CampusEAI Consortium has chosen to support Oracle Application Server Portal. Oracle Application Server Portal coupled with the CampusEAI Consortium community-source portlets in the CEAI CDC provides member institutions with a robust, mature and reliable community-source campus portal solution."
-Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of development, Oracle Application Server and Tools, Oracle Corporation
"Our collaboration with CampusEAI Consortium reflects WebCT's commitment to the goals of open standards, the needs of colleges and universities and community-source development efforts. Through our collaboration with CampusEAI Consortium, WebCT is able to offer our clients the convenience of an integrated CampusEAI Oracle Portal and WebCT e-learning solution."
-Chris Vento, Chief Technology Officer of WebCT
"The schools working together in CampusEAI Consortium form a diverse and compelling information technology community. Within that community, standards enable us to communicate in a common language. Standards help form a common body of knowledge that liberates us from the burdens of revisiting and solving recurring problems in isolation. Together, these standards allow us to focus on features that add real value to our applications. Bentley has a strong commitment to Information Technology that reaches students at every level. As a member of the TSC, Bentley is furthering this commitment by contributing and sharing knowledge with member schools to build better tools and a stronger CampusEAI Consortium community."
-David Simcik, Senior Web Developer, Bentley College
