Yesterday I attended a rather good workshop on the topic of enterprise architecture and digital transformation, which was organised by the architecture group of EDUCAUSE, the American society for IT in higher education. This topic is of obvious interest to me because we are running several digital transformation initiatives at the University of Edinburgh.  The […]

Over the past 7 weeks we’ve carried out several major server software updates on our managed Web Hosting service, with only a few minutes of disruption!

Last week, we were delighted to receive a visit from Rupert Frankum of Plymouth University.  Rupert was the technical manager for Plymouth’s project to replace their old student recruitment and admissions processes with a modern system based on a CRM platform  You can see a shorter presentation that Rupert and his colleague Paul Westmore gave […]

In response to feedback from students, IS have developed a service to add Academic timetables to students’ calendars which they can access through Office 365 or via the Calendar channel in MyEd. This makes up-to-date timetabling information readily available on mobile platforms. Changes made to events at short notice* will be highlighted to students as UPDATED […]

At the APM Scottish Conference last week I listened to Rodger Querns of Scotrail describe the recent project to upgrade Queen Street Station Tunnel. I was  interested in the risks the project team identified to the success of the project and how they chose to handle  those risks. What’s actually  in the Victorian Tunnel? No-one was […]

Some high schools in Edinburgh run work experience schemes, in which their senior pupils spend a week visiting companies or other organisations to learn what working life is like.  Last week, Applications Division joined in by hosting Ted Hilton from Boroughmuir High School.  We showed Ted a range of activities that contribute to the running […]

I spent an intense two days attending Gartner’s Enterprise Architecture Summit in London.  The event covered quite a range of topics; indeed, it is only now that I am looking back over my notes that I realise just how much ground was covered.  What follows is a brief overview of some key messages and highlights.