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Rutgers already uses cloud solutions such as Box and Google Classroom for file sharing and collaboration, and students from one university campus can participate in a class taught at another using Cisco Webex Meetings. In this case, however, theyre on the same path as Juilliard: looking to Oracle to drive their back-end functions around finance, HR and student support.

From an end-user perspective, Law says, people arent going to notice where the systems are hosted, since weve always allowed them to access our systems no matter where they are.

But from her IT teams point of view?

Moving to the cloud makes a lot of sense, she says, both in terms of the management requirements and because now well always be up to date. With on-premises solutions, Law explains, usually were multiple versions behind. But once were in the cloud, well get those patches automatically, so well always have the newest features ready for us to utilize.

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The cloud, according to the Rutgers Office of Information Technology, is a major technology paradigm shift and a model of computing that has the potential to provide significant benefits to both users and organizations.

On their own, Oracles ERP, HCM and Student Cloud wont build the One Rutgers culture the university aims to create in the coming years. But, along with the other cloud solutions the university adopts, they will provide the flexibility, scalability, security and cost savings that an institution of Rutgers size requires to succeed.

Law says shes fully confident that Rutgers is heading in the right direction in its push to the cloud. The university and others like it will always have on-premises systems supported by a robust IT infrastructure. But the future, she predicts, will involve a lot of change. And the cloud, she says, will certainly be part of that transition.

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