Educase Midwest Regional Conference March 15-17

Laurus Technologies would love to connect with our education customers at this year’s regional conference held in Chicago this next week. This year’s conference will look at the creative, effective, and sustainable ways that the higher education IT community is transforming teaching and learning, e-research/e-scholarship, IT leaders and enterprise services while coping with financial challenges.

Program covers:

  • E-Research and E-Scholarship
  • Leadership and Management
  • Managing the Enterprise
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Corporate and Campus Solutions

Feel like attending or want more information? Click here.

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Back to School with Laurus Technologies

These photos are taken from a recent visit to Malta, Illinois, home of Kishwaukee College. With a busy school year starting up, Laurus had the opportunity to do a full implementation of SunRay 270, seen below. Scott Armstrong, CIO, was with us to show us the final look for the new labs about to open for the coming year.
SunRay 270

SunRay 270

Kishwaukee Userface

Kishwaukee Userface

Scott, CIO of Kishwaukee College

Scott, CIO of Kishwaukee College

SunRay Back View

SunRay Back View

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Good News for VARs Despite Tough Times

Channel Web just came out with an optimistic report based on responses from over 350 solutions providers about where they think the market is going in 2009. The results were positive, although noting the tough economic situation providers are dealing with, the future seems bright.  Opportunities may be closing in one arena, but are opening in others. Many VARs, including Laurus, have seen the services portion of the business pick up tremendously.

Across the board demands for new technology and better margins are bringing diverse interest to the breadth of services that companies are taking on. Security is becoming a major issue, not just with compliance regulations but the fact companies can’t afford to lose precious customer trust. A boom in verticles like healthcare, government, and business all demonstrate a need that only seems to suggest this further. Campus Technology made mention to a lot of the philosophies we are Laurus feel are important– that these verticles show that the best way to survive the tough times is to adopt a plan incorporating more of these technologies and stick with it.

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