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Flat Budget, Busy IT Department
Organization: Arkansas State University
Location: Jonesboro, Ark.
Top IT Executive: Mark A. Hoeting, CIO
IT Staff: 70 people
Users: 432 end points of delivery, including campuses and public schools
2007 Budget: Will increase only slightly
IT Strategy: To compete with online universities by rolling out technology that aligns with the organizational mission. Hoeting says IT is "the centerpiece" of university strategy: to provide education that's distributed all over the state.
Business Drivers: Security and growth. "We will go from serving 10,000 students to 20,000 within 24 months," he says, which is "creating a need for better identity management."
Projects: Developing a central repository so that data from multiple locations resides in one place. "The idea behind building a new data warehouse is so that we can get a real-time snapshot of all the activities on all campuses," Hoeting says.
Methodology: In September 2006, CIO Decisions magazine surveyed a sample of print and online subscribers on their IT spending plans for 2007. Of the 394 respondents, 182 work for midmarket companies (those with revenue of between $50 million and $1 billion); 136 work for enterprise-size companies (those with revenue of more than $1 billion). The margin of error for the total survey sample is 4.9%; the margin of error for the 318 midsized and enterprise respondents is 5.5%. Results shown are for the total survey sample when differences between the populations are not significant.
Megan Santosus, a former senior editor at CIO Decisions, is now a features editor for SearchDataCenter.com. Write to her at msantosus@techtarget.com.
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