Iris Past and Present

IRIS: Now and Future

A brief overview of use and communications

Kathy Jordan-Baker

Information Technology

Current IRIS Statistics• Primary points of access

• Direct (over ½ of traffic)• Faculty/Staff page on colum.edu (42.66%)

– was 80% throughout the first year or two post-launch

• Increase in traffic from email (mail.colum.edu) up nearly 20% over the last month

Current IRIS Cont…• Heaviest Use

• EPay/Eprofile• Human Resources• SFS private site• Other private departmental sites• Training registration applications – 6

instances

Current IRIS Cont…

• Rich’s List use up 1,400% from last month!• Launched mid-March• Sustainability task force, college recycling,

and IT

Current IRIS Cont…

• Feb 27-Mar 29• 19,314 visits• 62,396 page views• 3.23 average page views per visit• 4 minutes average time spent on site• 4,279 absolute unique visitors• Visits up 5% over the last month• Used mostly Monday-Friday with high-use

on the 1st and 15th of each month

Current IRIS Cont…

• Browsers• 60% IE (11,484 visits)• 32% Firefox (6,193 visits)• 6.5% Safari (1,249 visits)• 1.36% Chrome (236 visits)• Others: IE with Chrome Frame, Netscape,

Opera, SeaMonkey, Mozilla

Current IRIS Cont…

• OSs• 80.62% Windows• 18.93% Mac OS• .2% iPhone• .11% iPad• .09% Android• .03% Linux• .02% iPod

Current IRIS Cont…

• Most Requested Search Terms• Alcohol policy• Cell phone policy• Vacation• Xerox• Budget

Current IRIS Cont…

• IRIS team focus is on upgrade and migration to new software

• Audit of user accounts, groups, permissions, sites

• Migration of 20GB of data• Application code migration and tweaking

New IRIS

New IRIS – Where are we going???

• Announcements• Policies/Procedures• Forms• Software upgrade means better cross-

platform usability • Increased use of ad-hoc project and private

departmental sites• Blogs, discussion forums, shared

calendars, workflow, shared documents

New IRIS – Where are we going???

• Updated software – providing more web 2.0 tools that are expected in today’s work environment

• Updated hardware – servers are virtualized!

• Processes automated reducing the total process time

• Reduced time spent trying to find college information

• Cost savings for the college in terms of people time

New IRIS – Why???

• To increase communication and workplace effectiveness

• Better, easier knowledge/information sharing and retrieval

Thanks!

and

Questions????