CampusEAI Consortium And Google®Team Up to Offer myCampus Portal With Google®Apps®For Higher Education Institutions®1

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CampusEAI Consortium, the creator of myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, and Google®, Inc.

January 12, 2010 -CampusEAI Consortium, the creator of myCampus, the most widely deployed campus portal and web content management solution in higher education, and Google^®, Inc. have teamed up, to offer myCampus with Google^®Apps^®to higher education institutions.

"Google^®'s email and calendars have fast become the preferred way for students to organize much of their academic and personal lives." said Anjli Jain, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. "Today we're pleased to provide Google Apps within myCampus and eliminate the need for each institution to reinvent the wheel of integrating myCampus with Google^®Apps^®."

myCampus is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web 2.0 enterprise portal for higher-ed institutions that provides students, faculty, and staff with access to their academic and social information all in one place. myCampus 6 includes features such as:

• Out-of-the-box Single Sign-On to enterprise applications such as:
  • ERP Systems - SunGard^®Banner^®, Oracle^®Peoplesoft^®, Datatel^®Colleague^®, SunGard^®PowerCampus^®, Jenzabar^®PX^®-CX^®-EX^®, and others
  • LMS Systems – Blackboard^®, Blackboard^®WebCT^®, Blackboard^®Angel^®, Moodle^®, eCollege^®, Desire2Learn^®, Sakai^®, and others
  • Email Systems – Microsoft^®Exchange^®, Google^®Apps^®, Microsoft^®Live@EDU^®, IBM^®Lotus Notes^®and Domino^®, Novell^®GroupWise^®, and others
• Targeted Alerts - Notifies users of campus announcements through:
• Portal
• E-Mail
• SMS alerts
• Web 2.0 Social Networking including:
• Community and Person Profile Pages
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Friend Walls
• Google^®Gadgets^®Integration

myCampus 6 now also includesGoogle^®Apps^®Education Edition’s suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications.

Google^®Apps^®Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications designed for schools and universities. Google^®Apps^®includes Gmail^®(webmail services), Google^®Calendar (shared calendaring), Google^®Docs (online document, spreadsheet, presentation, and form creation and sharing), Google^®Video (secure and private video sharing – 10GB free) and Google^®Sites (team website creation with videos, images, gadgets and documents integration), as well as administrative tools, customer support, and access to APIs to integrate Google^®Apps^®with existing IT systems such as Blackboard^®, Sakai^®, Moodle^®, LDAP^®, Active Directory^®, and portals like myCampus using open standards and APIs that help with account provisioning and maintenance. Advanced tools like LDAP directory sync, OAuth, OpenID, and Single Sign-On, coupled with robust reporting and migration tools, simplify user administration and enable migrations from other systems like Lotus Notes^®, Microsoft^®Exchange^®, and Microsoft^®Outlook^®.

A number of CampusEAI Consortium myCampus institutions are already running myCampus integrated with Google^®Apps^®in production including:

• Curry College (SunGard^®Banner^®)
• Southwestern Community College (Datatel^®Colleague^®)
• Arkansas State University – Mountain Home (Jenzabar^®)
• University of Southern Mississippi (Oracle^®Peoplesoft^®)

For higher education institutions that are already running myCampus and looking to add Google^®Apps^®, contact your CampusEAI Consortium account manager to facilitate the deployment of Google^®Apps^®within myCampus.

For higher education institutions that are already running Google^®Apps^®and looking to add myCampus, contact Jas Singh (

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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

target="_blank">http://www.campuseai.org/Products/campus_portal_overview.html

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global not-for-profit 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 Montana, Albany State University, Southwestern Community College, Georgian College (CAN), Australia National University (AUS) and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (PRC). For more information, visithttp://www.campuseai.org

About Google^®

Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 (2009 -03-31)[update], the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.

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