University Of Adelaide Launches Mycampus Enterprise Edition

July 20, 2010 - PRLog -- July 14, 2010 - The University of Adelaide(UOA), located in Adelaide, Australia, has launched CampusEAI Consortium’s myCampus Enterprise Edition for High Availability, a Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) campus portal solution that provides students, administrators, faculty and alumni with access to their academic and social information all in one place.

UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability allowed the University to serve up to 1,400 concurrent users during peak usage times such as student enrollment .

Statistics about UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability includes:

•myCampus Enterprise Edition project kicked off on December 15, 2009
•The myCampus Enterprise Edition portal system went live February 22, 2010
•The portal averaged 3,500 logins daily during the first week of the semester
•The portal currently averages 4,500 logins per weekday
•To date, there have been 306,000 logins by 9,700 unique users, about half of all
       students, in the three months since the portal launched.

UOA’s myCampus Enterprise portal for High Availability provides content and document management, portal capabilities, and the following features:

•QuickLaunch - Single-Sign-On Integration to systems such as1:
◦Oracle® PeopleSoft®
◦Blackboard®
◦Google® Mail
◦Moodle®
•Targeted Alerts - Notifies users of campus announcements
•Mail and Calendar portlets
•Campus Maps
•News feeds via RSS
•Online help and feedback

myCampus Enterprise Edition is designed for large institutions, university systems and existing myCampus users with requirements for additional performance, scalability, availability and redundancy and should be considered by:

•Institutions with over 10,000 FTE
•Institutions that use myCampus as the single and only point-of-access to all enterprise applications
•Institutions that use myCampus Web Content Management System to power their public website
•Institutions that use myCampus Standard Edition that need to increase scalability and high-availability.

“The University of Adelaide truly appreciates CampusEAI's efforts on our myCampus build,” said Peter Duldig, Portal Project Director at the University of Adelaide. “It doesn’t get any better than how CampusEAI have gone about delivering, communicating and coordinating. CampusEAI's sense of leadership, ownership and can do attitude is of the highest order. The University of Adelaide portal project is one of the University's highest profile projects and a great success story. We look forward to an ongoing relationship with CampusEAI.”

“We are pleased to be able to support the University of Adelaide’s portal objectives with our myCampus Enterprise Edition for High Availability,” said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. “It is an honor to assist the University in continuing to serve the growing needs of its community.”

For further information, members can contact their CampusEAI account manager. Non-members seeking further information can contact Hollie Rybak at hollie_rybak@campuseai.org or visit the CampusEAI website at www.CampusEAI.org.

About myCampus

myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, provides prospective students, students, faculty and staff, and alumni with single sign-on access to their academic and social information. For more information on myCampus, visit www.campuseai.org/mycampus-campus-portal

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global information technology services  and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT  solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the  CampusEAI Consortium, including University of Arizona,  Albany State University, University of Maine at Farmington, Curry College, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Staffordshire University and The  Australian National University. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

About University of Adelaide

Since its establishment in 1874, the University of Adelaide has been amongst Australia’s leading universities. Its contribution to the wealth and well being of South Australia as a whole – across all fields of endeavor – has been enormous. It is the third-oldest university in Australia, and became the first Australian university to admit women to academic courses in 1881. Adelaide was also the first Australian university to grant degrees in Science and establish a Conservatorium of Music. Since its foundation, the University has produced 102 Rhodes Scholars.

Adelaide’s research is at the leading edge of knowledge, with researching earnings consistently the highest per capita of any university in Australia. Analysis of the impact of publications and citations shows that the University of Adelaide is ranked in the top 1% in the world in 11 research fields.

An innovative and forward-looking university, Adelaide has major strengths in wine and food, health sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, information technology and telecommunications, environmental sciences and social sciences.



1CampusEAI is a member of the Oracle® Partner Network and CampusEAI has the rights to distribute Oracle® products and services. CampusEAI is not a partner, affiliate nor does an agency relationship exist between Blackboard®, Google® or Moodle® and CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not develop, market or distribute Blackboard®, Google® or Moodle® solutions or services. Neither Blackboard®, Google® or Moodle® endores the products or services of CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not endorse the products or services of Blackboard®, Google® or Moodle®.

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CampusEAI Consortium creates myCampus, a Web 2.0 SaaS Campus Portal, Web Content Management, Alumni Portal, and Prospective Student Portal solution. myCampus is used by over 250 K-12 and higher education institutions worldwide.