Features May 2020

In the nine years she’s been at Universidad de Los Andes, Cinthya Sánchez has been focused on transformations. As the school’s director of information and technology services, she’s reduced her department’s operating budget by 30 percent while better aligning tech with desired academic outreach and outcomes. Yet these were not overnight changes, and her ideas […]

In the days of stay-at-home orders, it’s hard to imagine a business more needed than a pharmacy offering home delivery. But as Dave Bour of Medly Pharmacy notes, doing this well takes much more than putting bottles of pills into bags and sending them out to customers, especially during a pandemic. “If you look at […]

Besieged with a pandemic crisis, Americans are experiencing a new stay-at-home existence—and the life-altering restrictions that come with it. With schools shut down just about everywhere, part of this new reality is having the kids at home—where many of them are bored to tears. Many parents are going “old-school,” turning to tried-and-true indoor activities like […]

The hospitality industry is ever changing, even more so in recent years. While public health and travel bans have presented extraordinary challenges, hotels and other businesses are still looking for ways to separate themselves from a crowded pack. As director of IT for the Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, it’s Iftekhar Khan’s job to research, evaluate, recommend, […]

It’s an outlook Ling Huang couldn’t change if he wanted to. “I look at system issues on the whole,” Ling says. “Things can be easily solved by a holistic system engineering approach.” Maybe not always so easily. After all, it’s been a decade since he first fully committed himself to helping people on the autism […]

When we talk about data, there’s a tendency to view it as an end in itself—the great equalizer the world has been waiting for. In reality, data is merely an asset. It’s how we use it—the technologies we tackle, the efficiencies we seek to gain, the solutions we choose to pursue—that tells the real story. […]

It wouldn’t be a party without the potty. From the food festival in a town square to the three-day show on multiple stages in the middle of the desert, everyone who comes will eventually need someplace to go. It’s not only sanitary, it’s the law, and in southern California, Diamond Environmental Services has been supplying […]

Nestled in western New York, about an hour from the Pennsylvania border and the shores of Lake Erie, the Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School District is rural and economically challenged. “But I want CLV to be known as a school district that is overcoming tremendous struggles,” says Rick Weinberg. “We have been able to provide some […]

In March, Tye Campbell went to give a presentation at the FinalsiteU conference in Florida on data integration. No sooner had Campbell arrived when he received notice of a pandemic team meeting back at Gilman School in Maryland. With COVID-19 gaining momentum, a stay-at-home order was likely imminent, meaning the independent school where he worked […]

Unhealthy patterns are a difficult cycle to break. Someone at risk for, or with, Type 2 diabetes may be tracking their weight daily, but not seeing much change once they step on a scale. Without positive reinforcement, that person gets discouraged, doesn’t take a daily walk, or go to the gym, or continue avoiding fast […]