Edgeboot is an advanced technology that offers unparalleled control and monitoring capabilities. It monitors network device connectivity, detects issues, and reboots devices automatically without human intervention. The user-friendly edgeboot Portal provides access to health statuses, performance metrics, event logs, and the ability to reboot devices on schedule or demand.
Over the past five years, Paymerang has emerged as a leading Accounts Payable (AP) Automation provider, making significant strides in the higher education sector. With remarkable growth in the last six years, Paymerang has become the go-to choice for public, private, and community colleges and universities across the U.S., including esteemed institutions like Loyola Marymount University and High Point University. The company’s AP Automation solution has streamlined financial processes, saving thousands of hours annually for accounting teams, enabling them to focus on student-facing activities and strategic planning. In partnership with higher education associations, Paymerang enhances security with encrypted data, multi-factor authentication, and Positive Pay, minimizing the risk of payment fraud. Additionally, Paymerang’s Invoice Automation further optimizes interoffice communication and invoice processing, while exceptional customer service sets them apart from other providors. As higher education’s trusted ally, Paymerang continues to empower institutions to nurture student success and enhance the overall student experience.
Let the good times keep rolling. The IP market is heating up and we are finally beginning to see a positive trend in IPv4 address demand. The new baseline has changed over the past 4 months and is close to the consistency we have seen in the past when IPv4 prices were constantly on the rise.
However, it is important to also consider how much of a surplus is still available in the IP market to really determine when prices might begin to stabilize and increase again. As we enter the halfway point in 2023, the average request for IPv4 is 142 per month. More importantly, the last 4 months of requests have increased to an average of 147. This rolling average demonstrates healthy market stability with a +10% increase over last year’s average of 134 requests per month.
Granite Telecommunications recently released a new product called edgeboot, designed for efficient network management. With advanced AI technology and dual connectivity, edgeboot minimizes downtime, simplifies Troubleshooting, and lowers dispatch costs. It comes with customizable endpoints and configurations, enabling it to instantly identify and resolve issues, such as automatic rebooting, without human intervention. Its user-friendly portal offers easy device management with out-of-band access to health statuses, performance metrics, event logs, and the ability to schedule or instantly reboot devices.
Key Features and Benefits of edgeboot:
- Automated Troubleshooting: edgeboot reduces the burden on IT personnel and non-technical site contacts by automating the monitoring and Troubleshooting of devices and services.
- Enhanced Network Visibility and Control with the edgeboot Portal: The edgeboot Portal enables users to schedule device reboots conveniently, adjust the self-healing algorithm across their fleet or at the device level, and gain valuable insights into their network. It provides a comprehensive view of network health, device metrics, and recent device events, empowering users to analyze network performance trends and eliminate chronic issues.
- Security First Design: edgeboot prioritizes data security with features such as data encryption at rest and in transit, a private cellular connection, and two-factor portal authentication. Ethical hacking firms have extensively tested the product, assuring businesses that their network and sensitive data are well-protected.
- Redundancy: edgeboot introduces redundancy by providing out-of-band LTE connection and console access for connected devices, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity and access to critical resources, even during network disruptions.
- Scalability and Flexibility: With effortless installation and pre-configuration for quick deployment, edgeboot seamlessly integrates into most existing network topologies.
- Network Monitoring, Alerting, and Support: Granite’s Network Operating Center (NOC) takes immediate action if a reboot does not restore service to a device. This includes contacting and dispatching the underlying Internet Service Provider, among additional customizable, device-specific directives.
Cloud technology appeared as a disruptor in higher education more than a decade ago. As new generations of students and personnel entered campuses across the country, it became evident that the infrastructure of higher education institutions needed to evolve. This time, though, it wasn’t a complex software update. But a once-in-a-generation company change would eliminate communication silos, erroneous data reporting, complicated legacy systems, and an aging framework.
Small and medium-sized higher education institutions must take action to ensure their continued viability, relevance, and future expansion. Delaying cloud deployment further is a long-term risk that few institutions can bear. But participation and comprehension are crucial to the success of this undertaking. Institutions must recognize the vision that is sparked by such a revolution.
Moran Technology Consulting’s (MTC) Information Security practice brings years of experience, at multiple institutions, helping higher education navigate a way forward in their security and compliance journeys.
Information security has been a top 3 concern of higher education digital leaders for many years. It isn’t only a CIO\CISO concern –insurance underwriters and government regulators have their eye on higher education security and compliance programs, too. Yet, CIOs\CISOs are contending with tightening budgets, staffing gaps, and technological debt, which keep them from making progress.
As a result, many schools are struggling to meet the new FTC Safeguards and achieve GLBA compliance. Adam Vedra, CISO & Senior Consultant with Moran Technology Consulting (MTC), wrote a piece about GLBA compliance & the new FTC Safeguards that lays out where to start if this is an issue your school is facing.
You can start addressing risk to your institution today. If you need help navigating your way to improving your information security and compliance program, MTC, a HESS partner, wants to help. Reach out for a conversation about your challenges and receive direction on your next step at hess@morantechnology.com
First American Education Finance is a financial services company dedicated exclusively to serving Higher Education. For over 20 years, we have worked to develop custom financing solutions for more than 800 schools nationwide – ranging from community colleges and liberal arts universities to large, elite research institutions. While we finance a wide range of projects, technology and software financing programs are our specialty. Whether you are looking to refresh your faculty & staff devices, or finance an ERP implementation, First American will work with your institution to customize a program to meet your needs so you can stay focused on delivering the best education experience possible to your students.
Discover how IT is shaping the student experience in 2023, focusing on personalized learning, collaboration, data-driven decisions, and IT infrastructure. This blog post provides valuable insights for university CIOs and CTOs on leveraging technology to drive student success, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure long-term institutional sustainability.
At RahRah, we believe in empowering institutions with the tools and support necessary to create a seamless, engaging learning environment. Together with our preferred deployment partner, Drivestream, we help universities harness the power of technology to transform the student journey.
Is your campus trying to predict the future through data analytics? Are you frequently hearing how “easy” it should be for the information technology department to give everyone access to the data they perceive that they need? Here at Moran Technology Consulting (MTC) we have a successful Data Analytics practice, led by Eric Hoffman to support those who are thinking with their campuses about how to improve access to and understanding of data. Eric recently published a brief piece with some real-world advice about how to get started with your data strategy that maybe of interest to you.
Moran Technology Consulting, a HESS partner, invites you to contact us for a free consultation and to answer any questions you might have about the article. You can reach us about this or The Coalition and HESS ERP Replacement Support Toolkit that was launched earlier this year by emailing hess@morantechnology.com.
The Teaching and Learning Studio by D2L brings together some of the brightest minds in higher education to discuss the latest research and best teaching practices in podcasts and master classes. Each learning opportunity is packed with practical knowledge and actionable insights.
In this podcast we unpack two of the most talked about terms in the education space: blended learning and micro-credentials. Whether you are for or against them, you can’t argue that they’re among the most talked about topics in the teaching and learning space today. To discuss this topic further, we welcomed Dr. Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) based at Dublin City University.
Dr. Brown and Dr. Ford discussed:
- Why the term ‘blended learning’ can and should have more than one definition.
- How blended learning could be a solution to making professional development for educators more accessible.
- The difference between a transformative mindset and a growth mindset
- The three things institutions should think about as they develop their micro-credential offerings.
Find out what blended learning is. Plus, Discover benefits, challenges and examples of it.
In a recent HESS webinar, we discussed one of Doctums’ fundamental principles, the outcomes-based approach to leading projects and services. This approach is conducive to IT leaders serving as strategic partners and optimizing the value of the institution’s technology systems.
The outcomes-based approach initially focuses on constituent journey mapping, a vital exercise college and university leaders can launch to best understand people and their experiences. In this article, we examine how applying the principles of journey mapping will equip you to supercharge your project outcomes by enhancing constituents’ experience, implementing effective process steps, and generating higher levels of engagement and ownership.
Moran Technology Consulting, Inc. (MTC), a HESS partner and premier IT management consulting firm partnering with the higher education and research community has developed a partnership with the HESS community to support their ERP Transformation journeys. To assist HESS members with understanding the many ways that MTC is highly qualified to assist, we have developed a customized HESS – ERP Replacement Support Toolkit with exclusive pricing for Coalition and HESS members.
If you’d like to explore how MTC can help your organization, contact hess@morantechnology.com. We would love to connect to learn more about your challenges and explore how we might be able to assist as “your trusted advisors”, as you navigate the complexities of an ERP replacement.
And for those who missed our recent announcement, MTC is proud to announce that it has hired Wendy Woodward as a Senior Consultant in our IT Management Consulting Practice.
“I’m excited to able to partner with HESS institutions in this new role,” states Wendy. “As a former board member of HESS who was actively involved in the group’s ERP selection and the Collective processes, I am looking forward to supporting HESS members on their digital transformation journeys. If you would like to connect you can reach me at wendy.woodward@morantechnology.com ”.
Granite delivers one-stop voice and data solutions to higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. The initial goal was simple – to make sourcing and managing local and long-distance phone services more accessible for our customers. We’ve evolved since then, and Granite can do this (and more) by providing the following:
- A single point of contact, backed by ten with project management included, for all customer service issues 24/7.
- One customizable invoice for all College or University departments, campuses, and buildings – fully.
- An exclusive web-based portal that allows for inventory visibility across multiple providers and locations, customized usage and trouble ticket reporting, and much more
- Lastly, the results of our complimentary invoice analysis have maintained an average savings of 27% – funds that can be reallocated to new endeavors and services to enhance the learning experience for the staff and students.
Take advantage of a unique benefit for HESS Consortium Collective members. Cloud Transformation Assessment (CTA) is a collaborative workshop that helps higher education institutions clarify their strategy, identify business value, and develop a roadmap for migrating to Oracle cloud applications.
CTA is one of Drivestream’s Strategy & Advisory service offerings with costs that range from $80K to $100K depending on size and complexity of the institution. However, as a special promotion for HESS Collective members, this is being offered for free.
A strong cloud migration strategy enables organizations to achieve significant operational and functional performance improvements. Many organizations face obsolete technology, applications with limited features, high maintenance costs, and poor security. Combined, these factors create the need for a digital transformation.