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An Analysis Of Colorado Christian University Technology

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“Here is a spoon. Please dig a 30-foot trench in the next couple of hours, please.” To most people, this is a ridiculous request as there are a vast amount of better suited equipment available to complete the job within the specified time. Yet, when companies do not align their Information Systems (IS) and Architecture with organizational business and strategic needs, their processes, equipment, and efforts prove ineffective and costly. For this reason, companies need to invest time and money into planning, investigating, and selecting the right software solutions, architecture and vendors to help them achieve high productivity and return on investment. To demonstrate, this paper will investigate Colorado Christian University’s (CCU) …show more content…

Also, a variety of mobile applications are available for BlackBoard (with links to Ellucian WebAdvisor), Concur, and the CCU Mobile application which is a mobile version of the student extranet, which will be discussed next. Furthermore, the organization uses a collaboration tool, Microsoft SharePoint, integrated with Office 365 in a cloud environment (Microsoft [MS], n.d) to host an intranet to provide employees with a platform where they can find company information, scheduled and upcoming events, a social networking component to keep all parties connected, and a search function to enable topic searches. This is also the platform for the student extranet that provide a single secure webportal to students which hosts all relevant information, announcements and social networking features to enhance and support the student experience while at CCU (Turbin, Volonino, & Woods, 2015). Furthermore, SharePoint also provides email services through a webbased Outlook which is the main communication medium between business and educational staff and individual students. Moreover, these solutions are supported through a secure tiered, client/server network infrastructure (assumption based on industry

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