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Article: United States : Information Overload: Ohio U Tackles Student Data with Massive SIS Project.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
When Brice Bible was hired as Ohio University's new chief information officer two years ago, the institution's IT operations were "fairly disconnected and not as modern as one would hope," he said, and its student information system had recently suffered a security breach.
"We were one of just two public universities that were still using the Informs system," said Bible. "It was an older, proprietary technology that no longer met our needs." The vendor had also gone out of business, and Athens-based Ohio University would no longer have software support beginning in the summer of 2010.
"Getting a new student information system ...