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Building a campus card

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Creating an ID program from the ground up

By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications

Launching a brand new campus card program isn’t as easy as signing a contract and cutting a check. There are many steps a schools needs to go through before they even choose a vendor.

CR80News asked questions to campus card vendors asking what a school would have to do if starting a campus card program from scratch. The questions ranged from how much an existing IT infrastructure impacts system selection, to what needs to be budgeted beyond the vendor contract amount to upgrade existing networks and how a campus card office should be staffed.

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Michael Assaf Permalink
March 16, 2011 12:16 PM

Good afternoon Mike,

This is a great article on incorporating a 1-Card solution to a campus. Let me know if you have any questions that might come up.

Have a great day, Sal Alfarone Higgins Corp. (802) 878-4900 salfarone@higgins3.com

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