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Are you Ready? - PCI Data Security Standards
Augusoft e-news - Volumen 3, Issue 4
By Okan Guney, IT Manager, Augusoft, Inc.

As Internet and online shopping become more common, credit card companies and banks are enforcing stricter security policies. For your protection, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) were established as a protocol for all online merchants. If you have an online storefront and you are accepting online payments, you are responsible for the security and compliance issues.

Payment Card Industry has been slowly pushing banks and other vendors to adapt to PCI compliance requirements. PCI compliance will become a mandatory merchant obligation by years end. High penalties will result for merchants who do not comply with these standards.

A recent article featured in the September/October 2007 issue of Educause Review entitled "Give US Credit: Evolving Security Standards for Credit Card Information" written by Kathleen Kimball and Jane Drews provides great background about PCI requirements and a summary of how PCI-DSS will affect colleges and universities.
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Augusoft's partnership with USAePay brings additional security and PCI benefits to our clients. To learn more about PCI Compliance visit  www.pcisecuritystandards.org.


Searching for a new chief information officer? Take a look in the mirror.
INC.com
By David Freedman

Ten years ago, Southwestern Services, a Fort Worth company that remodels large retail stores, had no dedicated information technology employees.
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Survey of Interest in E-Learning Shows Potential for Significant Growth in Online Education
The Chronicle
By Dan Carnevale

The online-education market has the potential to grow significantly, with about half of potential college students interested in earning a degree online, according to a survey conducted by Eduventures Inc.
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The Importance of Strategic Alliances in Building Online Systems
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Aaron Donsky

When thinking about both online courses as well as online registration, it is important that you give consideration to moving from a "go it alone strategy" to one where you form a joint venture with other organizations.
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Vendor Selection within the Education Environment: you harvest what you sow
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Rich Rexeisen

Many studies have been published concerning the crucial role that vendors play in contributing to the overall performance of buyers.
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Software-as-a-Service Myths
Business Week Online
By Jeffrey Kaplan For years, organizations of all sizes have suffered the hassles and unexpected costs that accompany deploying and maintaining a variety of traditional software applications that, ironically, were intended to make them more productive.
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Software Feature Focus: CEUs
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Beth Moorhead

The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a nationally recognized unit of measurement for non-credit continuing education programs.
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Getting the Best Information from Profile-derived Extracts
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Greg Marsello

Any lifelong learning software system worth using must collect demographic and purchasing information on students.
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Software Feature Focus: Room Management
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Beth Moorhead

With nearly all lifelong learning programs, there is a need to share limited community resources with other programs.
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Revenge of the Software Customer
By John Finneran

According to technology analysts AMR Research, more than 80% of customer relationship management (CRM) software deployments either don't add value, encounter user resistance, or fail outright.
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Software Feature Focus: Course Series
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Beth Moorhead

Course series functionality is an extremely useful took in your online software management system. Currently, you can use your software's course series modules to bundle classes together...
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Software Feature Focus: Increase your customer demographic info now
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Tim Scott

In Web-based learning management systems, the most useful information often comes from analysis of your students and their interests. Before the advent of online registration, staff would have to collect all student information over the phone or by mail.
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