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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. Silvia Figliozzi works in the Development Services section of the Applications Directorate as a Student Placement Developer. […]
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. “After a trip up to the Ben Nevis CIC hut I couldn’t resist riding this slab, a […]
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 […]
SAP BusinessObjects (also known as ‘BI Suite’) is the University’s primary reporting tool, but over the years it has become home to a vast amount of reports. Until now, there has been no practical way of systematically removing old and unused content. With the help of a tool called 360view, the Service Management team and […]
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 […]
