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Gartner Research Campus Access for Faculty, Staff, and Students

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Are you interested in the most current and cutting edge information about technology? Are you researching or looking to invest in new technology and want industry-leading research to help you make the decision? Is your department looking to teach current IT-related topics? Do you need in-depth insights across all facets of technology – including communications, telecom, mobile, digital business, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and cyber-security?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be interested in Middlebury’s access to the Gartner Campus Access Research service.  Gartner is a leading information technology research and advisory company that provides easy-to-understand summaries of complex ideas and extensive, in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis for a variety of IT topics.   

Middlebury’s subscription to Gartner includes access to both Gartner Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycles. 

  • Magic Quadrants help you get educated quickly about a market’s participants, maturity, and direction.  Magic Quadrants focus on the subtle differences between vendors in markets that are highly mature or newly emerging, and map vendor strengths against your specific need.
  • Hype Cycles are based on graphic representations of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications which help discern technology hype from what’s viable
  • Special Reports are time-sensitive research reports focused on critical issues in technology. 
  • Regularly updated Complimentary Research selections of cutting-edge research from Gartner analysts
  • Webinars that can help you to build impactful, transformative strategies, based on real-life examples

Students can benefit by using Gartner to find research for assignments, learn where IT is headed and how it will shape our world, discover an area of interest, or even get ideas on careers. Gartner’s research enriches the educational experience by providing timely, objective real-world examples and content.

Faculty: Gartner Campus Access research enables professors to bring timely, objective real-world examples and content to the classroom, enriching the educational experience. 

Staff can access information on how to improve infrastructure, validate technology decisions, analyze trends in the industry, and understand best practices.

Gartner’s Campus Access research is licensed for use and is accessible to Middlebury College faculty, staff, and students at no cost.   To access Gartner, go to http://go.middlebury.edu/gartner.  Access is through Single-Sign-On (SSO) so you will need to authenticate using your Middlebury username and password.

Please welcome Sonny Cloward to ITS

Everyone, please join me in welcoming Sonny Cloward to ITS.  Sonny joined the ITS team on April 24th as a new Salesforce Administrator- Analyst in Enterprise Applications.

Sonny brings over 17 years of IT experience including over 12 years dedicated to the Salesforce platform in government, for-profit, non-profit, and higher education environments.   Sonny has participated in the implementing over 50 Salesforce systems including working with some of our partners in the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium.

Sonny will be located in Painter House with the Enterprise Application, but will work primarily remotely from his home in Montpelier.

Please join me in welcoming Sonny to ITS.

Please welcome Melissa Floyd in her new role as a Business Analyst in ITS

We are very excited to announce that Melissa Floyd has accepted the position as a Business Analyst on the Administrative Systems Team in Enterprise Applications.  Melissa will move into her new role effective April 1st.

Melissa has been at Middlebury since November 2015 where she has worked as a Software Engineer on the Web Technologies and Services Team.   Prior to coming to Middlebury, Melissa spent 13 years at IBM filling numerous roles including Project Manager, Software Engineer, and Solutions Architect.

We are very excited to see Melissa transitioning into her new role as a Business Analyst.

Please join me in welcoming Tom Cutter to ITS

We are pleased to announce the recent addition of Tom Cutter to the staff of ITS.   Tom will be taking on the responsibilities of an Application Administrator – Project Manager- Business Analyst within Enterprise Applications.

Tom brings over 30 years of diverse IT experience to ITS including 23+ years serving the Middlebury College community.   Tom will be transferring from his current position in Facilities Services where he has been working as Information Systems Manager since 2009.  Prior to working with Facilities Services Tom filled numerous roles within Information Technology Services and Library and Information Services from 1993-2009.

Tom’s transition to ITS will occur on Monday March 28th.  Tom’s office will be located in Painter House with the Enterprise Application team.

Please join me in welcoming Tom to ITS.  We are excited to have Tom’s rich experience on our team and we are looking forward to Tom’s contributions to our organization.

Want to learn more about the Argos reporting platform?

Our current reporting system, Hyperion EPM 11 (formerly Brio), is being discontinued and will no longer be supported by the current vendor after Fall of 2018. We’ve been examining several products over the past few years as we consider potential replacement options.  Of the systems we’ve examined we are particularly excited about the reporting system Argos made by Evisions.

If you would like to learn more about Argos they are offering the following upcoming webinar on Tuesday,February 23rd at 2:00pm ET. The webinar will be recorded, so if you are interested but not able to attend at that time, just sign up using the link below and Evisions will send you a link to the recorded session.

Want to learn more about Argos? Attend a webinar that provides client examples as to how the Argos reporting solution empowers users to easily run and view Banner reports, charts and dashboards.

We will be showing client examples of HR, Finance, Financial Aid, Admissions and Advancement department reports, charts and dashboards.

Sign up for Argos Case Studies for Banner
Tuesday, February 23rd – 2:00PM EDT

Case study examples include:
• Student Progression/Dropout Prevention
• Course Utilization
• Advancement Constituent Information
• Financial Aid Award Management
• Budget/Financial Reporting
• DegreeWorks Reportin
• And much more.
The webinar will be available On Demand following the live date.

Interested in learning more about Banner? Join the Ellucian eCommunities.

Are you interested in learning more about Banner?  Have questions about best practices?  Want to connect with colleagues at other Banner schools to learn how they have addressed challenging problems?  Consider joining the Ellucian eCommunities.

Some of you may remember the older Sun Guard Higher Education ListServ and Banner Commons that used to allow Banner schools and users to communicate, collaborate, and stay connected.  These have largely been replaced and augmented by the new Ellucian eCommunities system which is now integrated with the Ellucian Support Center.

The Ellucian Hub can be used to get to all Ellucian resources.   If you’ve used their “Action Line”, you have a Hub account.  If not, you will need to have an account created.

Main URL to access the Hub:  https://ecommunities.okta.com

To sign up for Hub account:  https://clientapps.ellucian.com/signup

For help if Hub password has been forgotten: https://ellucian.okta.com/reset-password

To access eCommunities directly without going to the Hub: https://ecommunities.ellucian.com

From there, you should see a page with a list of “Getting Started” videos which you can watch to learn about the eCommunities system.

NOTE:   The information from Banner Commons was not able to be moved directly over to eCommunities.  If you had been using Banner Commons, you’ll need to do the “Edit Profile” step in eCommunities like you had previously done in Banner Commons.  Data about your name, e-mail address, title and company name come from the Ellucian Support Center so it’s important for you to have a Hub account there.

You’ll also need to set e-mail preferences and select the “Places” you’d like to follow.  You can click on “All Places” near the top of the page to see all the groups/streams and then click on the “gear” icon to the right of those you’re interested in to “Follow”.  If you “Follow in Daily Digest”, you will get an e-mail message with links to each posting once each morning.

If you have problems with this, please e-mail ecommunities@ellucian.com.