Hello readers! It’s the end of the month so time for another blog post, all about… BI Team (Enterprise Architecture)! We are a small but international team with members with roots in The Netherlands, Iran, India and Scotland. We have BI (Business Intelligence) Team Lead, Data Architect and ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developers in […]

Hello readers and welcome to the next blog post in a long line of ones to come! This month, it is all about… Information Services Group Portfolio (Project Services)! What does Information Services Group Portfolio do? Our team deliver IT and business change projects which are mainly aligned with the directorates in ISG and the […]

Hello readers and welcome to this new series! At the end of every month a blog post about teams from different sections of Applications will be released to get to know more about the variety across departments, so expect the next post at the end of April all about a team in Project Management. Running […]

Join the Events Management Community on Teams! Do you manage or assist with the delivery of events? Joining the friendly Events Management Community (EMC) is the best way to stay up to date with the latest news and advice in the ever-changing world of professional event delivery. There’s no question too big or too small […]

To help put names to faces and highlight the diverse personalities in the Apps department, we run a regular series of short interviews with our staff. These short interviews feature both new and long-standing members of the department. Tell us about your journey before starting this role: I did a Ph.D. in Computer Science and then […]

Taking on part-time work or a year-long placement in the ISG team has provided countless students over the years with practical experience to complement their university learning. Within the Information Services Group and the Applications Directorate, there are many line managers who first came to work at the University as student employees.   Systems and Database […]

A new SharePoint timeline tool has been developed by a member of The University of Edinburgh’s (UoE) Information Services (ISG) team which will enhance organisation and utilisation of list data. The tool has been created by Don Stuckey who was appointed SharePoint Developer in July 2020 within the SharePoint Solutions Service (SPSS) at ISG. Don […]

Rachel Weller (left) and Ting Hsuan Lin (right) Rachel Weller, who studied Spanish and Classics, started as a Project Management Intern and then became a part-time Project Management Office (PMO) Administrator. She has now received an offer for the Change and Business Solutions Graduate Programme at NatWest in Edinburgh. Ting Hsuan Lin, who studied Business […]

It’s the end of an era but the start of a “bright future” for UniDesk as the service co-founded by the University of Edinburgh (UoE) moves into new ownership. After 11 hugely successful years, in which the service has gone from strength to strength, UniDesk has been transferred to the Higher Education specialist not-for-profit Shared […]

Image via Unsplash What is the IRM? The Industry Relationship Management (IRM) platform supports industry engagement relationships, across the University of Edinburgh. The Salesforce-based system centralizes and consolidates data related to engagement with external organisations offering a “pan University perspective” where end-to-end relationship management is possible. The project to procure and implement the IRM began […]