About HEUG: HEUG is an international organization consisting of Higher Education institutions that use application software from the Oracle Corporation. Its two primary purposes are to facilitate sharing of ideas, information and experiences among its members, and to provide a unified and effective voice to Oracle on all issues involving the use of Oracle application software in the Higher Education community.

HighPoint Technology Solutions, Inc. successfully launched its HighPoint Mobile for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and its HighPoint Mobile for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management at the Lone Star College Systems in the Woodlands, Texas. The Lone Star College System is one of the largest 2-year college systems in the United States.  Their CIO, Shah Ardalan, was recently honored in this year’s Converge 50 Education Technology Innovators Yearbook publication.  His vision to maximize their students, faculty, and employees Mobile services has been realized with their deployments of HighPoint Mobile.

HighPoint is the Oracle partner delivering mobile applications built specifically for the Oracle PeopleSoft ERP suite of applications. Our HighPoint Mobile application for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Human Capital Management complements the services that Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Human Capital Management customers can provide their constituents by providing their students, faculty, administrators, employees, and parents with the ability to immediately obtain and process important student, campus, and employee information through their mobile devices.  With our open, mobile framework, and out-of-the-box integration, we have adopted the main student, faculty, and employee features and created a light-weight, fast and easy way to navigate the Campus Solutions and Human Capital Management applications via multiple smart phones and mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones, and other tablets/mobile phones.

HighPoint is the market leader for mobility on Oracle PeopleSoft applications and the only Oracle Validated Integration to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions applications. HighPoint has rapidly become the main Mobile Application for Higher Education institutions using the PeopleSoft Enterprise System because it allows the students, faculty, and staff to access all information pertaining to their education or employment from their mobile devices.

The faculty and staff have the ability in the PeopleSoft Human Capital Management functionality to:  manage timesheets, web clock punch with GPS, view and request absence, view paycheck details, manage direct deposit information, manage benefit information, view total compensation, perform life change events, search/apply for open jobs, manage open positions, and much more.

This webinar will demonstrate HighPoint’s alignment with Oracle’s strategy for mobile applications integration, will showcase the technology and functionality released in HighPoint Mobile version 4, and will provide real-life customer examples of how your institution can be live in 3 weeks with PeopleSoft Self-Service on mobile devices.

HighPoint is the market leader in mobile technology and social media for Oracle and PeopleSoft applications. HighPoint is a veteran in the Mobile industry spending numerous years working with institutions on the best ways to mobilize PeopleSoft on smart devices enhancing self-service and providing new features and technology that satisfy a rapidly growing need in today’s Higher Education industry. HighPoint will demonstrate multiple University roles (prospects, students, faculty, administrators, employees, managers, etc.) as they perform their daily self-service functions in HighPoint Mobile. HighPoint will also discuss their HighPoint Mobile product roadmap for 2012 which includes new enhancements that allow your institution to improve the student, faculty, and employee experience. The HighPoint Mobile application is easy to use and deploy and can be added to your existing mobile strategy or leverage the HighPoint Mobile framework.

After the demonstration, HighPoint clients, spanning from 2 year, 4 year, public and private institutions, will be available to discuss their experience deploying HighPoint Mobile at their institutions.

http://www.heug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=176&eid=142

With the release of its Total Mobile Access service this summer, Southeastern Louisiana University made a clear statement of where it stands on the question of whether to go the app route or develop a mobile-optimized website instead. “It’s not an app; it’s so much more than an app,” said Mike Asoodeh, assistant vice president for technology of the 15,000-student university in Hammond, LA.

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/09/08/Going-Mobile-via-the-Web