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How Colleges and Universities Can Achieve a Digitally Integrated Campus
This is the fourth in a series of posts discussing critical aspects of the Educause report “Top 10 IT Issues 2020: The Drive to Digital Transformation Begins.” Last year, Educause released their annual report of the top IT issues facing higher ed....
Vision 2020 – Rise of the Machines to Save Higher Education
According to NCES, the 6-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor’s degree at 4-year degree-granting institutions in fall 2011 overall was 60 percent. This statistic raises several issues - the obvious one is...
Corona Times: Working From Home – A Startup CEO’s Perspective
"Things do not change; we change." Henry David Thoreau I am pretty sure it was early February, I was on my way to work and heard on NPR that there was a chance that the Tokyo Olympics might get postponed this year. I laughed out loud, and I was 100% sure that...
Fantasy Philosophy: Machiavelli vs. Kant?
Machiavelli, in his book The Prince gives us several incendiary quotes that, one could argue, serve as a reference for modern-day entrepreneurs. Machiavelli’s philosophy epitomizes the struggles of a modern entrepreneur and serves as a guide for surviving that...
Investors and Partners Speak at N2N’s 2019 Annual Meeting
At N2N’s 2019 Annual Meeting, held Dec. 20 at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, Georgia, N2N leadership, employees, clients, and investors took some time from their busy working schedules to come together and reflect on N2N’s nine-year journey from its...
N2N’s CEO Kiran Kodithala Speaks on the Company’s Past, Present, and Future
This past December, N2N celebrated its 9th birthday at its Annual Meeting at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, Georgia. N2N’s CEO and founder, Kiran Kodithala, gave the keynote, sharing and reflecting on N2N’s history and progress over the past nine...
MOST RECENT
Move Over, Beowulf! or The Battle With Integration
It’s not often that we share news of our own scholarly achievements here at N2N – we’re usually happy to stay mostly behind-the-scenes, supplying the tools and platforms that enable others to succeed academically. But we recently made a discovery we’re too excited not...
One Platform To Rule Them All: How N2N Makes Life Easier for Smaller Institutions
If you were really, really geeky, you could say that the One Ring, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, was basically just an evil API Management Platform. You’d have to be really geeky, though. Fortunately, we here at N2N are pretty darn geeky. And it makes us a...
The IT Odyssey: A CIO’s Quest for Integration
Sing to me, Muse, of the university CIO with all the IT tricks up his sleeve, CIOdysseus. Sacking Troy was nothing compared to the feats CIOdysseus performed every day, moving his university into the future, while keeping all aspects of campus tech humming smoothly....
Seven At One Blow: Slaying Giants Isn’t Just For Fairy Tales
Growing up, did you ever see the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Brave Little Tailor? The one where Mickey takes on a giant who’s wreaking havoc all around the countryside, sitting on farmhouses, downing handfuls of pumpkins like they’re candy, and smoking haystack cigars?...
Your Data Warehouse may be Dangerous
So, you’ve got a lot of data, eh? A big ol’ data warehouse? It’ll be great, they said. It’ll help you make business decisions. It’ll boost your bottom line. It’ll pave the way to your future, while saving you time and money, they said. How’s that working out for ya?...
What All the Buzz Was About At Elive 2019
Who doesn’t love a good conference?! They’re almost like company-sanctioned mini-vacations – travel, eating out, hotels, excitement, a change from the everyday…and this was New Orleans! And then there are the more practical benefits – informational and inspirational...
We Dare You To Visit Us At Elive 2019 and NOT Make Changes At Your Institution
When was the last time you went to a conference, talked to a vendor at a booth for a few minutes…and then went back home and immediately started making major, earth-shattering changes at your institution based on that conversation? It may not be common, but it’s a...
Integrating Ellucian PowerCampus with Macmillan Learning: A Case Study
“Set it and forget it.” It’s a phrase we often associate with cooking – but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to apply that same concept to your institution’s data transfer needs? Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, Minnesota, thought so. We first met the...
The platform you didn’t know you needed
Have you ever heard of Vitamin K2? No? How about calcium? Of course, right? Did you know that without Vitamin K2 to regulate its storage and distribution around the body, calcium can actually cause heart disease and cancer? It’s true. Here we are, giving calcium all...
The N2N Manifesto
At N2N, we believe in the promise of the future. We believe in making innovation easy and accessible. We believe in empowering businesses to take risks in the pursuit of growth… …and in helping to make those risks safe bets. We believe in removing unnecessary,...
Who the Heck is N2N?
Not to brag or anything, but… You may have read about us in Forbes, or seen Gartner recognize us in a couple of their reports. You may have heard about one of the awards we’ve won, or seen our name listed as an official partner of Oracle, Ellucian, Hobsons, Macmillan...
Data Management New Year’s Resolutions Your Organization Should Be Making
OK, let’s be honest – how long do your New Year’s resolutions usually last? Are you out the door at 5 am on January 1 (fine, maybe January 2) for your new morning jogging regimen – only to decide on January 7 or so that the health benefits of getting more sleep...