Business Showcases
Absoft Ltd
SAP’s vision for higher education
Malcolm Woodfield, SAP AG and Matthew Gordon, Absoft Ltd
SAP’s higher education and research solution helps many of the world’s universities to deliver academic excellence by providing a fully integrated business process platform. This session will showcase SAP’s vision for, and commitment to, higher education in the UK and globally. Learn how SAP powers the world’s leading institutions to drive efficiency, automation and transformation through its integrated application and analytics suite, delivered on device, on premise or on demand.
Google
Google Apps for Education: 16 million users and counting...
William Florance, Google UK Ltd and Nick Skelton, University of Bristol
So, what’s happened in the world of Google since last year? What’s new? What is in the pipeline? Come and hear from the Google team, who will be joined by Nick Skelton of the University of Bristol, one of the institutions that has recently made the decision to deploy Google Apps for Education to both staff and students.
Logicalis
Alun Hughes, University of the Highlands and Islands
Alun, in conjunction with Logicalis, will explain how the University of Highlands and Islands (UHI) has utilised Video Conferencing in a groundbreaking way to deliver education to its students. Because of the University's location, where many of the students and teachers live hundreds of miles apart, UHI have employed a unique and innovative approach in Video Conferencing that is unmatched throughout Europe.
Microsoft UK Ltd
Microsoft Lync: unlocking the cost saving potential in your people
Marilyn Moffat, The Open University
Microsoft are showcasing Microsoft Lync with The Open University, who are the largest deployed HE site in the UK. The OU have replaced an ageing PBX switch and now use Lync for over 4,000 staff across multiple locations. A project is also now underway to extend its use for the Call Centre. They will help you to understand the reasons Lync was chosen, the process that they applied to ensure a successful adoption and explain the very significant cost savings made as a result.
StudentCom
The future of student accommodation services. How can technology best be used to help meet the continually increasing student (and parent) expectations?
Paul Kan, StudenCom
Against a backdrop of trebling tuition fees, and overstretched budgets, we will demonstrate how technology can help with the challenge of meeting students, and increasingly, parents rising expectations.
Moving through a typical student journey, we will highlight key areas in which technology can help differentiate your accommodation, enhance the student experience, and even reduce operational costs.
