OmniUpdate™ Educational Case Studies

The University of Maryland School of Medicine Improves Communications Through Distributed Web Management 
For the country's first public medical school, the solution to improving its website was by taking a fresh, new approach to how they managed it's content. More...

State University of New York at Oswego on the Forefront of Innovation Evolution
SUNY Oswego is advancing its goal of a dynamic, interactive and supportive environment, while leveraging its existing human resources.  As more and more is demanded of higher education websites, they must evolve and grow to meet growing demands.  More...

Upper Iowa University Expands Web Presence Using OmniUpdate’s Content Management System
“We knew that we needed to leverage and focus and actually turn the website into something that was a useful marketing tool – which we haven’t been doing. We really weren’t using the site to actually market the university to any great extent,” said Joel Kunze, Director of Web Services at Upper Iowa University. “We’ve turned that around now.”  More...

Casper College Innovates and Improves Web Presence with OU Campus™
Casper College came to realize the need for a "customer-based" web design that provided each of their target markets with targeted, up-to-date information, in an environment that was easy to navigate.  However, a web design was not all that Casper needed.  There was still the problem of managing all that content effectively.  The college set out in search of a web content management solution and what they found was the leading solution in higher education: OmniUpdate.  More...

Pepperdine University Unifies Multi-Campus Web Presence with OU Campus™
Pepperdine University's Web unification project kicked off in 2002. Today, six major Web sites have been completely redesigned (roughly 40,000 Web pages).  OmniUpdate was selected as the Web Content Management System and is actively used by a wide range of content contributors -- from novice to advanced users.  More...

Dartmouth College Keeps it Fresh with OU Campus™
In 2003, the Web Oversight Committee approved a substantive new goal for Web publishing. The core objective was a multi-tiered "branding" program to support distinct departments. Hand-in-hand was the desire to obtain the necessary technical systems. Up to this point, the IT team had been hand-editing Web content for more than 50 different non-curricular sites based on client instructions. This was inefficient, and the Web Publishing team had to stop accepting new clients. More...

Louisiana Tech University Meets Needs With OU Campus™
When the University Webmaster Dena Westerfield was hired at Louisiana Tech, every web page was built and maintained by hand.  The school was in immediate need of a web content management solution.  Westerfield spear-headed the web content management solution research and developed a list of candidates.  Westerfield was looking for a user-friendly solution that enabled non-technical staff to update and maintain their own content - reducing the burden of the school's web masters.  The solution had to also be flexible, as not every web page within the school's site would need the solution.  In April of 2003, Louisiana Tech had made their decision.  More...

California State University Long Beach and OU Campus™
As with all successful and progressive organizations, the Library at CSULB web site has grown in size and functionality. Its relative success has provided challenges as well as accolades. With growth comes the challenge of keeping up with the demand for more information and keeping the existing amount of information current. The CSULB Library administration relied upon part-time and volunteer workers to keep the content of the web site current. With greater demand, they found that a bottleneck impacted service to their constituents. They quickly realized that central control over content management no longer worked.  More...