Blackboard and PeopleSoft to Deliver Integrated Portal Solution for Higher Education; Market Leaders Expand Alliance to Unite Academics and Administration.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2001 Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc. today announced that it has expanded its alliance with PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) to introduce pure internet solutions for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. that integrate academics with administration via the web. Through the expanded relationship, PeopleSoft and Blackboard will each offer an integrated solution that combines the portal interfaces of their respective products. Each integrated offering is expected to simplify navigation between the systems by activating Blackboard links in the PeopleSoft Campus Portal and/or PeopleSoft links in the Blackboard portal. This is expected to give colleges and universities the flexibility to select an institution-wide portal with single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. access to both academic and administrative information. Additionally, it enables rapid deployment of both the PeopleSoft and Blackboard applications by offering administrative and academic portals with built-in seamless navigation between them. This next stage of integration between the two companies follows their successful collaboration over the last several semesters integrating the Blackboard enterprise course management system with the PeopleSoft suite of enterprise administrative applications. "Our expanded partnership with Blackboard further demonstrates PeopleSoft's commitment to e-learning. It will help our customers to seamlessly integrate and manage their institutional services through one easy-to-use portal interface," said Liz Dietz, PeopleSoft's VP & General Manager, Learning Solutions Product Division. Customers at a number of higher education institutions have successfully integrated PeopleSoft and Blackboard 5 Level 3, using an interface created by PeopleSoft with assistance from Blackboard. This level of integration assures basic data integrity between the systems; once information on users, courses and enrollments is entered into the PeopleSoft system, it automatically populates the Blackboard system A blackboard system in computer science is a type of Artificial Intelligence application based on the blackboard architectural model. The following scenario provides a simple metaphor that gives some insight into how a blackboard system works: . Institutions purchasing either the expanded PeopleSoft or Blackboard integrated solution will now have access to both administrative and academic information at any time through the use of a standard browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used . Access is role-based, allowing members of the campus community to more effectively manage their academic and administrative needs. Students, faculty and staff can access assignments and grades, review records and manage their course and community activities. "The University of Wisconsin - Superior went live with an integrated PeopleSoft to Blackboard solution in August," said Kayt Sunwood, Director, Faculty Development Center for UW-Superior. "Single sign-on user authentication See authentication. now provides us with more accurate information and eliminates manual updating and the duplication of effort by our staff. UW-Superior has combined the best of administrative web-based services with the leading e-Learning platform to create a fully integrated collaborative campus." Additionally, many other colleges and universities worldwide are benefiting from the PeopleSoft-Blackboard partnership. Already implementing the data integration functionality from PeopleSoft and Blackboard are Polytechnic Institute of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities , Griffith University Griffith University is an Australian public university with five campuses in Queensland between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. In 2007 there were more than 33,000 enrolled students and 3,000 staff. in Australia and Rijks University of Groningen Degree programmes Bachelor's degree programmes The Bachelor phase lasts three years and after successful completion of a Bachelor's programme result in a BSc or BA degree. There are a total number of 61 Bachelor degree programmes. (The Netherlands.) "Expanding our alliance with PeopleSoft has been a priority for Blackboard as we continue to focus on the needs of our clients," said Steve Hoffman, Blackboard president and COO. "Our higher education customers have asked for greater interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and flexibility from their mission-critical technology providers and this further demonstrates our desire to ensure client satisfaction and success. We expect to continue to announce greater collaborative initiatives with PeopleSoft as we expand our relationship." PeopleSoft and Blackboard currently plan to have their solutions available in Q4. About Blackboard Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. Blackboard's two major lines of business, Course & Portal Solutions and Commerce & Access Solutions, are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. Please visit www.blackboard.com for more information. |
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