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Institutions of higher learning are under pressure to deliver results. Colleges and universities face the challenges of diminished funding, and establishing the ongoing relevance of their role in an environment of escalating tuition prices and degree programs that, on the surface, may not correlate with traditional career paths.

The acceleration and consumerization of technology is reshaping expectations by college administrators, faculty, students and prospects. Instant, uninterrupted, secure, and mobile access to a school’s system is simply expected. Yet each audience brings with it numerous devices that tax campus networks already choked by simultaneous demands for speed, storage and hefty downloads.

To meet these challenges head on, colleges and universities are embarking on a journey of technological transformation. According to research firm Maguire Associates, seven in 10 university leaders report their institution is in the

midst of remaking itself and sixty-four percent of academic leaders said they’ve made significant shifts in technology during the past three years. What’s more, forty-eight percent of academic leaders foresee launching one or more online or hybrid degree programs in the future.

Championed by a variety of stakeholder groups ranging from leadership and faculty to IT and administration, the modernization and migration of institutional legacy systems to the cloud is gaining campus-wide support – and for a variety of important reasons.

Migrating on-premises technology assets to the cloud can provide remarkable benefits, including:

• Shaping next-generation campus experiences

• Streamlining institutional operations

• Accelerating leading-edge research

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A NEW BREED OF CAMPUS EXPERIENCELearners today act differently from the traditional students of just a few years ago. They want an array of online classes, just-in-time communications and intuitive technology experiences that extend beyond the pages of a textbook. And they expect their institution to provide the latest mobile tools to help them schedule classes, monitor progress, and obtain academic or personal assistance.

Today, many students never set foot on campus and instead prefer to receive their coursework in online modules they can consume at home or on the go. Many are first-generation college students; others are retooling a lifetime of experience into a new career path.

This new breed of student - juggling jobs, children, and aging parents - looks to the flexibility and cost-savings of community colleges to attain an associate’s degree, often the first step in an American dream of quality education for all.

Colleges, both private and public, are meeting the demand. Many are offering mobile-first tools and reinvented learning experiences that are engaging and easy to navigate – all essential elements if they are to remain attractive and profitable.

Assets like collaborative online learning environments and personalized dashboards that display real-time data like grade point averages, graduation timelines, course completion calendars and detailed student account information help students track their progress, meet

critical deadlines and stay motivated as they move from education to occupation.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots play a larger role in this new world as well. Unlike web and mobile apps, these conversational interfaces are designed to help guide users with instant and personalized assistance 24 hours a day. These virtual assistants act as on-screen advisors that proactively and reactively hand-deliver advice to prospects, students, professors and administrators – and provide a demonstrable return on investment.

Next-generation experiences like these improve stakeholder experiences and, in turn, elevate the academic reputation of the institution delivering them.

To prototype, pilot and launch new tools and systems in lockstep with the pace of technological change, universities and colleges, public and private, large and small, should move to the cloud.

The cloud can revolutionize the campus experience by:

• Delivering cost savings, flexibility and a frameworkto bring innovation to campus

• Securely warehousing student population data

• Offering greater interoperability and access

• Enabling expedited app development anddeployment

• Automating the use of chatbots for instantengagement through mobile cloud services

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Research is the lifeblood of large institutions. It drives breakthroughs on global issues, garners acclaim, attracts funding and launches careers. However, today’s research initiatives are becoming more complex and costly – and are being examined through the lens of faculty performance and student achievement, increasing the need for more accountability.

To satisfy the public’s scrutiny of escalating tuition costs, institutions must now quickly deliver real-world, evidence-based outcomes of research with more transparency.

But the disruption doesn’t end there. With beacons, wearables and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices able to capture information previously inaccessible, the sheer scale of research projects and the exhaustive amount of data they generate has exploded.

To store an unparalleled avalanche of structured and unstructured data, today’s information repositories must be highly secure, scalable and cost-effective. The technology stack’s design has important consequences on how research analysis and collaboration are performed as well, making cloud-based technology for data storage and retrieval an attractive option.

The cloud can empower research at your university by:

• Storing vast quantities of data from sensors, metering devices, and other sources

• Scaling up and down as projects generate fluctuating amounts of data

• Defending against breaches in security and system outages

• Generating a collaborative structure to enable breakthrough research across the globe

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Because technology moves at breakneck speed it’s easy to see how administrators and internal higher education systems struggle to keep up.

Many institutions own disparate collections of outdated and inflexible systems. In some cases, these systems have been around for years – even decades – producing poor user experiences and higher maintenance costs. In 2017 alone, the estimated IT spend for higher education, as projected by the Center for Digital Education, was a hefty $11 billion.

In order to meet today’s expectations and deliver additional value, traditional processes should be consolidated and digitized. With lower costs of ownership and up-to-the-minute financial and human resources analytics, faculty and staff are empowered to make the macro and micro decisions that shape student success, financial sustainability, and institutional excellence.

To reach new levels of innovation and efficiency, institutions should begin to migrate their legacy applications to the cloud.

The cloud can help you leverage technology and ensure business continuity by:

• Providing unified management and more visibility

• Reducing operating costs while enabling the launch of innovative applications and services

• Using the power of big data to deliver insights and predict future needs

• Protecting proprietary information through enhanced cybersecurity features

• Delivering superior disaster recovery capabilities

• Bridging legacy applications such as Peoplesoft, Banner, and Blackboard to work in synchronization with Oracle Cloud applications

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Cloud computing offers powerful opportunities for higher education – but where to start? The first step is develop a plan, and then choose a partner that can deliver the performance, security and integration capabilities your organization will require.

With more than 25 years of experience in academia and over 11,000 higher education customers, Oracle has a history of success in helping institutions around the world enrich research, learning and operational experiences with innovative cloud solutions. Everything we do is focused on helping our customers improve student outcomes and raise the standing of their institutions.

Oracle offers enterprise class and scale capabilities across the cloud – SaaS, PaaS, IaaS – designed to create a secure, stable, and modern portfolio of mission-critical capabilities. It represents the industry’s most complete offering. And by featuring integrated consumption models and centralized management for complete data transfer and ease of use, it’s perfectly suited for complex and high-speed computer-based research, operations management, and scaling up to meet peak needs.

Beyond outstanding performance, fortified security and seamless integration, the Oracle Cloud can also facilitate machine learning initiatives with built-in AI and natural language processing, as well as fuel blockchain-verified records management to combat fraud. This will help meet the needs of early adopters who expect nothing less than cutting-edge experiences across all digital touchpoints throughout their lives.

Oracle can help your university make the grade with:

• A clear path to legacy system migration

• Expansive storage with near-infinite scale and bursting capabilities

• Unified management with comprehensive visibility and control

• Support for multiple applications, languages and operating systems

• Complete data isolation and top-to-bottom security across multiple tech layers

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This ever-rising demand for data-driven research has led Penn State University’s Institute for CyberScience (ICS) to add cloud-based infrastructure to handle big spikes in computing demand and provide more overall capacity. ICS’s mission is to support Penn State researchers’ high-performance computing needs, from weather patterns on Mars to Twitter streams in Tunisia. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure plays a key role in running workloads on “bare metal,” directly on a server to achieve maximum speed for CPU-intensive processing tasks.

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The State University of New York (SUNY) selected Oracle Cloud at Customer, a dedicated on-premises private cloud, to modernize its infrastructure while balancing the need to meet stringent regulatory data requirements. The largest university system in the U.S., SUNY is comprised of 64 institutions serving more than 1.3 million students. This cloud solution sits behind the institution’s firewall, keeping sensitive data within its walls while providing a platform for innovation.

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