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  • PoLP – Watchman’s STEP Platform utilizes “Principle of Least Privilege” Architecture to Reduce Data Security Risks
    October 18, 2021 0
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      Higher-Ed has become an attractive target for cyberattacks. In July 2020, Comparitech reported that 1,327 data breaches in the education sector had resulted in the exposure of 24.5 […]
  • Check our our lastest Podcast with our partner Verba | VitalSource
    October 15, 2021 0
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      Join host Lisa Montgomery of Verba | VitalSource for this episode as we sit down with our own Kellie Ranum and Mike Clear, Director of […]
  • How well are you adapting to the “one-click” generation?
    July 6, 2021 0
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    Are You Meeting the Needs of the One-Click Generation? It’s not uttered a lot anymore, there was a phrase being thrown around maybe ten or more […]
  • STEP Platform supports Ethos® for Watchman Customers, Improving the Ellucian Colleague® User Experience
    June 23, 2021 0
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    Watchman is pleased to announce that our STEP platform now supports Bursar Billing and IA Billing services using the Ellucian Colleague Ethos Platform, and that customers […]
  • Manual Processes can cause friction for time-saving programs
    June 15, 2021 0
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    We’ve been writing about “Friction” in campus processes for the past weeks.  Posts One , Two, Three, Four and Five We’ve described many of the problems […]
  • Don’t let Friction slow your success (aka Embrace the Mavericks.) Friction Series Part Five
    June 10, 2021 0
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    This is part five of our “Friction” series. See Parts One , Two, Three and Four . Why has Inclusive Access grown so fast? The answer […]
  • Friction Makes Campus Staff Even Busier (Friction Series Part Four)
    June 2, 2021 0
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    In the last post, we wrote about how friction can land heavily on the Campus Store and students with manual work and special processes. This post […]
  • Friction Makes the Campus Store Less Productive (Friction Series Part Three)
    May 10, 2021 0
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    This is part three of our “Friction” series. Check out Parts One and Two to catch up. Smooth For most students, the process of purchasing course […]
  • Problems Paying for Course Materials and Other Expenses: A Burden on Student Success (Friction Series Part Two)
    May 5, 2021 0
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    This is part two of our “Friction” series. Check out Parts One to catch up. Many students struggle to get the course materials they need when […]
  • The Scoop On Payment Friction: What Is It and How Can You Reduce It? (Friction Series Part One)
    April 22, 2021 0
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    We thought: how can we inform more institutions about both the challenges and opportunities of matching available student funds to their eligible purchases? What’s a good […]
  • Resources for Student Success
    March 12, 2021 0
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    Student success: it means a number of different things to different people. When we talk about student success, we want to go beyond academic success–the simple […]
  • Sponsored Account Management (SAM) maximizes student success
    February 20, 2021 0
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    SAM and campus impacts We wrote in a previous post about Sponsored Account Management (SAM) and how it eases the burden for managing student funds at […]
  • SIS interfaces – a brief technical overview
    February 15, 2021 0
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    We’ve previously written about how our WPS STEP platform makes connections between campus sellers and campus systems. The most common systems we interface with are Student […]
  • Bursar Billing Solutions are not just about Financial Aid any more
    February 9, 2021 0
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    Bursar Billing? The origins of the name We frequently get asked if our services enable billing to Student Accounts including Financial Aid. It does, of course. […]
  • Cal Poly Pomona Partners with WPS and Verba VitalSource to Fuel Dramatic Digital Growth During Covid-19 Pandemic
    February 4, 2021 0
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    Amidst the countless challenges posed by Covid-19, universities and institutions needed to shift to the digital world. Cal Poly Pomona transferred a sizable part of their […]
  • Sponsored Accounts Management (SAM) Makes it Easier for the Campus Store to Administer Aid for Students
    January 11, 2021 1
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    Facebook Twitter Linkedin Managing third-party sponsors can require substantial manual work for the campus store Sometimes there is a process impacting a select group of students […]
  • HECVAT: a powerful tool to assess the security chops of your prospective vendors
    January 4, 2021 0
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    Let’s talk HECVAT It seems relevant to talk about security, especially in times when the giant and ever-broadening hack of our nation’s networks is beginning to actively […]
  • Watchman helps you deliver Inclusive Access benefits with easy Automated IA Billing
    December 29, 2020
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    Watchman helps deliver Inclusive Access benefits with easy Automated IA Billing
  • WPS Launches STEP to make campus transactions easier
    December 22, 2020 0
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    STEP, the Student Education Payments Platform
  • Our Mission: Simple, Easy, and Stigma-Free Campus Transactions
    December 20, 2020 0
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    What we're all about
  • Website Content PAN Attack
    March 1, 2019 0
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    Avoiding attacks on credit card information on your e-commerce site
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