Westwood in Small,
Liberal Arts Colleges
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Scott E. Siddall |
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Denison University |
Survey of small colleges
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129 colleges surveyed |
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February 23 until April 26 |
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63 completed all parts of the
survey |
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77 responded to parts of the
survey |
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59% response rate |
Participating
Institutions
Demographics
(means)
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1885 students (705 to 3626) |
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194 faculty (63 to 450) |
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27 technology staff (5 to 65) |
Email servers
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Exchange (37%) |
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Unix/Sendmail (29%) |
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Other (11%) |
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SunOne, FirstClass, Groupwise,
Unix/Postfix, Blitzmail, Rockliffe MailSite, Webmail |
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Groupwise (10%) |
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PMDF (10%) |
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All are centralized |
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88% serve everyone; 12% serve
faculty and staff only |
27% support multiple
email servers
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Unix/Sendmail (26%) |
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Other (26%) |
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SunOne, FirstClass, Groupwise,
Unix/Postfix, Blitzmail, Rockliffe MailSite, Webmail |
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Exchange (21%) |
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Groupwise (11%) |
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Cyrus (11%) |
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10% are distributed |
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7% support a third email server |
Primary email clients
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MS Outlook (41%) |
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Eudora (18%) |
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Netscape Messenger (17%) |
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Other (12%) |
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Webmail, Groupwise, FirstClass,
Squirrel Mail, BlitzMail, Outlook Web Access, Pegasus |
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MS Outlook Express (3%) |
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Webmail (3%) |
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Entourage (2%) |
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Mulberry (2%) |
Primary email client
support
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78% on both Windows and
Macintosh |
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17% on Windows only |
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3% on Macintosh only |
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2% on Unix only |
Primary email client
support
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Protocols: |
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54% IMAP |
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28% POP |
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19% MAPI |
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For whom: |
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87% for everyone |
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13% for faculty and staff only |
Other supported email
clients
Is it acceptable for
Chandler to support only IMAP and POP?
Calendar servers
supported
(77% have calendaring)
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MS Exchange (37%) |
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Meeting Maker (24%) |
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Other (22%) |
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SunOne, Groupwise, R25/Schedule
25, OnTime, homegrown |
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Oracle (9%) |
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Webevents (3%) |
Calendar server support
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100% centralized |
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53% provide calendaring to
everyone |
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47% to faculty and staff only |
19% provide a second
calendaring solution
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Other (46%) |
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SunOne, Groupwise, R25/Schedule
25, OnTime, homegrown |
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Webevents (23%) |
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MS Exchange (15%) |
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Meeting Maker (8%) |
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83% centralized |
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50% to faculty and staff only |
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42% provided second calendar
solution to everyone |
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8% to students |
More calendaring
solutions
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7% provided a third calendaring
solution |
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3% provided a fourth |
Calendar client support
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74% support a calendar client |
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MS Exchange (37%) |
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Meeting Maker (27%) |
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Other (25%) |
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Outlook, Outlook Web
Access/Exchange, Groupwise, FirstClass, SunOne |
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Oracle (10%) |
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Webevents (2%) |
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80% on both platforms |
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50% for everyone |
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50% for faculty and staff only |
19% support a second
calendar client
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Other (69%) |
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Webevents (15%) |
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MS Exchange (8%) |
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Meeting Maker (8%) |
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67% on both platforms |
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17% on Windows only |
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8% on Mac only |
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8% on Unix only |
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62% for everyone |
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38% for faculty and staff only |
Supported Directory
Services
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44% LDAP |
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41% Active Directory |
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4% synch with email database |
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4% other |
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Novell NDS, Win NT domain |
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All are centralized |
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96% provided to everyone |
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4% to faculty and staff only |
20% have second
directory service
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50% LDAP |
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29% Active Directory |
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21% other |
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All are centralized |
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93% for everyone |
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7% for faculty and staff only |
How important are these
features?
Interest in Canoga?
Interest in Westwood?
Other interests?
Unusual requirements?
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Students limited to web client;
no SMTP |
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Must integrate with directory
services |
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Real-time appointment
confirmation |
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Mac integration is problem for
many |
Must have features
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PDA support |
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Integrate with office suite |
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Integrate with LDAP |
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Support and user documentation |
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Easy migration path |
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Spell-check for email |
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Anti-spam features |
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Instant messaging compatibility |
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Print daily calendar |
What do you want to know
about Chandler/Westwood?
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Product timetables |
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Notice of upcoming conference
presentations |
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Feature comparison with current
products |
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Technical details on mail
storage, backup, recovery |
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Why isn’t the private sector
developing Chandler? |
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Specifics so we can plan for
testing, piloting, use |
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How will Westwood be supported? |
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When can we test it? |
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Why should we be interested? |
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Expected features and when |
How do you want this
information?
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Web site |
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Email newsletters pointing to
web site |
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Conference presentations |
Suggestions?
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Use open standards |
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Don’t reinvent wheels |
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Avoid lock-in for this product |
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Get feedback from academic
users early in the process |
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Give us easily installed beta
versions to test |
We are very, very
interested!
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