Monthly Archive for January, 2008

REMC/Microsoft Sharepoint Session at MACUL

MACUL Session: Microsoft Sharepoint “Building a Learning Gateway — How portals are changing the 21st century learning experience”

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids
Cost: Free (includes Lunch)

Registration Online!

Course Description: Create a customized dashboard that connects administrators, teachers, students, and parents. Discover how others are connecting their K-12 communities with a common set of collaboration tools, development skills and re-useable components that everyone can share! This discussion will provide an overview of Microsoft’s Web-based integration framework which delivers a communication-rich content delivery model tailored for the education system. The target audience for this hands-on lab is IT Professionals that want an overview of what Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is, and how to deploy it. The primary audience for this hands-on lab is the IT Professional who generally works with both Windows and Office technologies.

The session is limited to 30 participants so early registration is strongly recommended. Register today!

Computers and Network Electronic Purchase Program

REMC will be releasing an Invitation to Bid (ITB) for its Computers and Network Electronics Purchase Program mid-February.  The program will include contracts for computer systems, network eletronics, data management furniture, centralized device management tools, power backup and management system solutions and storage systems.  Vendor applications are now being accepted from Enterprise Tiered companies until February 1, 2008.  It is estimated that the contract period will run 36-months beginning July 1, 2008.