Bentley University Selects OculusIT For Database and Application Support Services

Chicago, IL: Bentley University, one of the nation’s leading business schools, has selected OculusIT for DBA support. Bentley University (Waltham, MA) is a dynamic community of scholars and critical thinkers with a student body of about 4,200 undergraduates and 1,000 graduates. Their objectives in seeking managed services from OculusIT include:

• Allowing Bentley’s IT staff to develop new technical skills to support cloud-based platforms and applications
• Allowing their IT team to be more responsive to ongoing business needs by shifting daily operations to OculusIT

Bentley University’s requirements include database and application support for after-hours on-call and incident response. OculusIT will provide ongoing operations support for:

• Upgrades, patching, provisioning, access, and other routine processes
• Major applications from Ellucian^® (Banner^® and DegreeWorks^®) used by Bentley IT
• Performing daily cleanup and monitoring tasks

Additional services provided to the university include:

• Responding to system alerts
• Troubleshooting application processes
• Monitoring ETL jobs, database instances using Oracle^® Enterprise Manager and Oracle^® tablespaces
• Administration of database backup and recovery processes
• Normal operational tasks including documenting baseline performance metrics, updating activity logs, archiving and backups, and Oracle® performance tuning plans

OculusIT serves several other clients with a similar scope of work. Banner^® managed services are provided to Seward County Community College, Raritan Valley Community College, Wellesley College, Collin College, and Norwich University. This includes Banner^® DBA and programmer analyst support, Banner^® 9 project planning and implementation, and other such services.

About Bentley University: Bentley University is one of the nation’s leading business schools, dedicated to preparing a new kind of business leader and one with the deep technical skills, the broad global perspective, and the high ethical standards required to make a difference in an ever-changing world. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, on a classic New England campus just minutes from Boston, Bentley is a dynamic community of leaders, scholars and creative thinkers. The college offers 24 majors and 35 minors with more than 100 clubs and organizations within. For more information, visit www.bentley.edu

About OculusIT: OculusIT is a leading IT Managed and Cloud Services company with technology solutions that transform higher education institutions and public-sector organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Since 2003, we’ve helped more than 500 organizations achieve success. Our services include IT Management Consulting, Staff Augmentation, ERP/LMS/CRM Professional Services, Cloud Hosting and Backup, Infrastructure Management, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft® and AWS® Services, and Compliance Audits. For further information, please contact us at contact@oculusit.com or visit www.oculusit.com