Innovativ Consulting Partners is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a "Open Source" Community” on the edu1world.org higher education networking website.
I am personally inviting you to join this online community today. Membership for faculty and staff of institutions of higher education is being provided by Innovativ Consulting Partners at no cost to you. As a member, you will be able to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions regarding open source solutions with professionals from around the world.
Why an Open Source Community?
College and University campuses are challenged with escalating costs and scarce financial resources. Open source software solutions are cost-effective alternatives and should be explored.
Higher education professionals are challenged daily by the sheer volume of available information. The edu1world Open Source Community will help narrow your focus to mission critical information.
You want an unbiased forum for comparing and contrasting the options. The edu1world Open Source Community fills the need for a free, open, unrestricted, vendor-neutral online community of practice for those wishing to share information and educate themselves on the options.
You want to tap into people who have already done the time-consuming research and development work. Our Open Source Community gives you access to peers who have researched, implemented and tested Open Source products, and are willing to share the results. Innovativ’s expert professionals will also be on hand to respond to a wide variety of Open Source technology questions.
Networking is vital to the flow of timely intelligence among colleagues. In addition to the Open Source Community, edu1world provides a host of online networking tools, databases, and communities of practice -- all free to higher education institution employees and accessible 24/7.
The edu1world Open Source Community is the first Web 2.0 collaboration on this important topic just for Higher Education. We at Innovativ Consulting Partners are particularly pleased to be partnering with edu1world on the project. Having known and worked with edu1world founders Liz Dietz & Vicki Tambellini for more than ten years, I know they have the knowledge of the higher education market and the capacity to cultivate a community that will deliver great value to education users.
Edu1world.org is made up of virtual communities for higher education faculty, administrative professionals, associations and vendors who are interested in and work with technology. It is a community where members from around the world connect, collaborate, communicate, and access the information they need to succeed.
In the spirit of “openness,” what better way to assist the higher education community than the establishment of a site that capitalizes on the social networking capabilities of edu1world?
I join Vicki Tambellini and Liz Dietz of edu1world in extending an invitation for you to subscribe to this complimentary service today.
If you are not already a member, edu1world will create your user profile containing just your name (email addresses are never visible for the rest of the users) and you will be able to further expand your profile according to your own preferences as well as to change the password sent by the system. You will receive an e-mail with your user name and system password for logging in to the edu1world website. Access to the secure Open Source Community will be approved once you successfully login.
You are welcome to forward this invitation to anyone employed by a higher education institution anywhere in the world. All are welcome to join and participate. Let’s make this an informative, thought provoking and productive group.
Again, welcome. Together we can make this community of great value to you, to your institution and to your global peers in higher education technology.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with your suggestions for the site. I am looking forward to connecting with you online.
Kuali Rice project gains dedicated resources with announcement of investing partners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2009
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. --For a growing number of colleges and universities, Kuali Rice represents more than the underpinnings to core Kuali applications—it will also be the framework that is used to build any campus application in an agile fashion. Kuali Rice empowers developers to react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner that in turn facilitates the production and delivery of high quality business applications for all Carnegie-class institutions.
Prior to fall 2008, the Kuali Rice effort was supported by voluntary resources from the Kuali application projects and had no formalized governance structure. With this announcement of investing partners, the Kuali Foundation has created a governance structure for the Kuali Rice project. In addition, Kuali Rice now has an explicit funding model and dedicated resources for its ongoing sustainability and enhancement.
The Kuali Rice investing partners are the University of California San Diego, the University of Washington, Iowa State University, the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, Indiana University, Cornell University and Innovativ Consulting Partners.
Kuali Rice provides an enterprise-class suite of integrated software products—known as middleware—that is the foundation for Kuali enterprise applications such as the Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus (KC) for Research Administration, Kuali Student (KS), and others to come. Kuali Rice is built with service oriented architecture (SOA) concepts in mind. Specifically, developers are able to build robust systems with service contracts, customizable and configurable user interfaces with a clean and universal look and feel, common enterprise workflow functionality, and general notification features to allow for a consolidated list of end user "action items.”
“Many institutions who had been watching Kuali with great interest, but aren’t in need of new ERP implementations presently, are finding that Kuali Rice can help them solve real campus needs quickly with minimal risk and much lower investment than replacing a component of their ERP,” noted Chris Coppola, CEO of rSmart and one of the initial Kuali Rice board members.
The Kuali Foundation and the Kuali application communities have reaffirmed their commitment to Kuali Rice as the technical infrastructure and middleware solution for all Kuali software. Rice will evolve to serve all current and future projects, and will continue to provide a framework for application development beyond the core Kuali applications.
Eric Westfall, Indiana University, was named as Project Manager of the Kuali Rice project starting January 1, 2009. Release 1.0 of Kuali Rice is expected to be delivered in late spring 2009.
Innovativ Announces Pisciotta
as Executive Director and Partner
Columbus, Ohio, April 8, 2009 -Innovativ Consulting Partners today
announced that Vincent "Chuck" Pisciotta assumed the role of executive director and partner
effective April 1, 2009.
Pisciotta served most
recently as a managing director with Alumni Capital Network, a New York-based private equity
firm. "I've known Chuck for more than 20 years since we worked together at Accenture," said
Tony DiSanza, executive director of Innovativ. "His insightful counsel will continue to help
our customers meet their goals and improve operations."
Before joining Alumni
Capital Network, Chuck spent 28 years with Accenture, focusing on consulting and outsourcing
services for industrial clients. Some of his clients included: BF Goodrich, Ashland Inc.,
Worthington Industries, Abbott Labs, Celanese, Bayer, BOC Group, Roche, Nova Chemical, HB
Fuller, Sun Chemicals and PPG.
"I look forward to
working with Tony and the new group at Innovativ Consulting Partners to serve the needs of the
public and educational marketplace," said Pisciotta. "I believe my experience in the industrial
area will apply very appropriately to this marketplace as well."
Pisciotta is a graduate of
Miami (Ohio) University, in Oxford, Ohio, with a B.S. in System Analysis, School of Engineering
and Applied Science. He is also a CPA.
About Innovativ
Consulting Partners
Innovativ Consulting Partners provides the client-point expertise needed to fully implement
foundation solutions successfully. The company has decades of experience in Higher Education
and the public sector, and serves its customers through a focused understanding of industry
challenges and opportunities. Innovativ is a Kuali Foundation® Commercial Affiliate and
business partners with Oracle® and PeopleSoft®. For more information, visit:
www.innovativcp.com or call 614-947-1306.
Innovativ Announces Calhoun as
Director and Partner
Columbus, Ohio, April 1, 2009--Innovativ Consulting Partners today announced that Michael Calhoun
assumed the role of director and partner effective March 3, 2009.
Calhoun served most
recently as the associate vice president for systems and operations at the University of
Cincinnati. "We are thrilled to have Mike join Innovativ," said Tony DiSanza,
managing partner of Innovativ. "His extensive experience in Higher Education at the
University of Cincinnati is a great complement to the team and to our future customers. His
background deploying SAP in Higher Ed., as well as SOA practices, strengthens our Kuali Rice
solution offerings that will help us deliver value to our education
clients."
Before joining the
University of Cincinnati in 2000, Calhoun served in numerous leadership roles with EDS, MCI,
U.S. West Communications, Service Merchandise and American Television and Communications
Corporation.
"I'm thrilled
to be joining an organization with the vision and drive that I have found at Innovativ
Consulting Partners," said Calhoun, who has 32 years of information technology
experience. "With the depth and breath of experience that we have at ICP, I am excited
about our ability to serve our constituents and help them to achieve their
goals."
Calhoun is a graduate of
Columbia College, in Columbia, Mo., with a B.A. in Business Administration.
About Innovativ
Consulting Partners
Innovativ Consulting Partners provides client-point expertise needed to fully implement
foundation solutions successfully. The company has decades of experience in Higher Education
and the public sector, and serves its customers through a focused understanding of industry
challenges and opportunities. Innovativ is a Kuali Foundation® Commercial Affiliate and
business partners with Oracle® and PeopleSoft®. For more information, visit:
www.innovativcp.com or call 614-947-1306.
Lower Entry Costs Bring Cutting Edge Technologies Within Reach
New Partnership between Innovativ Consulting Partners and the Kuali Foundation Paves The Way
Columbus, Ohio – February 16, 2009 --Education institutions that are ready to upgrade to the latest in administrative solutions can now do so with fewer concerns over costs or implementation thanks to a new partnership between Innovative Consulting Partners and the Kuali Foundation. Through this partnership, Kuali and Innovativ will offer a set of open-source administrative solutions for higher education institutions and the management, functional and technical consulting expertise to ensure a successful implementation of those technologies.
"We're pleased to welcome Innovativ as a Kuali Commercial Affiliate. It is critical to the success of Kuali that we have commercial affiliates who can provide services to institutions implementing the Kuali software, Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director of the Kuali Foundation said. "Innovtive brings a strong background in providing these types of services, and they have made a commitment to Kuali that is a harbinger to success, both for them in this community source higher education area, and also to the Kuali institutions who will use their valuable services."
Kuali provides open-source administrative software designed to deliver full-featured financial, student interaction and various other administrative tasks. The Kuali foundation is comprised of several higher education institutions that have joined together to develop solutions tailored to the specific needs of their industry. They are offered as open-source solutions without upfront licensing costs.
From the first basic Kuali financial software, development the program has expanded to include additional modules under the name of Kuali Rice that can be mixed and matched to meet an institution's specific needs in areas such as student interaction and messaging. There is a growing and active community of developers working to expand on these core programs.
Innovativ joins the foundation as a commercial affiliate offering clients the point expertise needed to fully implement the foundations solutions successfully. Innovativ has specialized in providing ERP consulting services to the Education industry for more than twenty years.
“Participating as a Kuali Commercial Affiliate allows Innovativ to support this dynamic industry and work with the leaders at the forefront of new technology," said Tony DiSanza, founder of Innovativ Consulting Partners. "Of course, we'll continue to support our clients with the commercial PeopleSoft solutions as well, but we're committed to staying one step ahead of trends to best serve all our clients."
