Application Development

Alumni will be the second department to move to Office 2007. Monday, March 10th a conversation will be held in which we discuss the process and give a "sneak peek" of Office 2007. The next step will then be for App Dev to scan their files to look for conversion issues and help migrate files, just as was done with Development. Then, Office 2007 training will be held for Alumni in the Olin RTR. After the scanning and training, a computer upgrade conversation will be held and we will begin providing computers with Office 2007 (and not Office 2000) to Alumni.

CBORD provides our Dining Services, Campus Card, and Housing Management System for Luther

February 29, 2008

CBORD is pleased to announce our acquisition by Roper Industries, Inc. As an investor in CBORD and as a long-term “CBORDian” (as we like to call ourselves), I have a great deal of personal pride in CBORD’s growth and development. I view this new partnership with Roper as a very positive development for all our current and future customers.

Debbie Smith and I have been participating in a beta test for a new software development product from Datatel. The product is called Colleague Studio and is based on the Eclipse software development program. Eclipse is an open source development framework. Datatel has added its own development "perspective" to Eclipse to handle special tasks that need to occur for Datatel software development.

Development is going to be the first office to move to Office 2007. Today a conversation was held in which we discussed the process and gave a "sneak peek" of Office 2007. The next step is for App Dev to scan their files to look for conversion issues and help migrate files. Then, Friday of this week and Monday of next week, training will be held for them in the Olin RTR. After the scanning and training, a computer upgrade conversation will be held and we will begin providing computers with Office 2007 (and not Office 2000) to Development.

Present: Andrew, Matt, Colin, Jim, Ryan, Bob E, Bob P, Larry, Adam, Chris B, Diane

* Mac Problems - Discussed the current status of connection problems with Macintosh computers.  The problem appears to only be affecting the G4's.  Created a list of next steps.

*  MIDAS - Have two more demos to schedule.  Discussed the merits of SoftGrid and wondered whether or not it and/or SMS are included in the MS Campus Agreement.  Shared thoughts regarding LANdesk and Microsoft BDD.

Marcia Gullickson, Jan Schnitzler, Roy Prigge, Kristi Haindfield, Kris Franzen, and Jon Lund met to discuss campus privacy policies. The group decided to focus on two policies;

1) Safeguarding your personal information.  A brochure and electronic document for external audiences like students, parents, and potential employees outlining how Luther will use your personal information and assure them it will not be used improperly.

We have released the Leave Plan Summary screen on the my.luther.edu web site. All permanent (but not temporary) employees can log in to the web site using their NorseKey. Employees can view the balance of their vacation, sick and/or personal days remaining. The leave plans for personal days for administrative staff have not been added in Datatel yet, but HR will be adding those in the near future.

Folks from LIS and Advancement took part in two presentations from vendors this week looking at solutions for document imaging and management. These systems would allow electronic storage, indexing and retrieval of all sorts of business documents, both those that have been digitized from paper or those born digital. The systems we looked at both interface with our Datatel system to allow documents to be attached to records in that system.