This collaborative approach allows rSmart to
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PHOENIX, The rSmart Group, the leader in open
source applications for higher education, and IBM jointly announce their
collaboration to support the Kuali Project, an open source project based on
Indiana University's Financial Information System.

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The $7. IBM 's commitment to this industry
combined with rSmart's presence as a developer and community leader of this
project ensures that together we will be able to offer higher education the
key elements of validation, integration, testing, support, and service that
will allow our customers to adopt Kuali with confidence," said Ray Barker, CEO
of rSmart.
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believe that combining rSmart's knowledge of the Kuali application with IBM's
expertise in implementing financial systems will provide higher education with
a very persuasive alternative to the shrinking number of proprietary financial
systems available today. For more than
80 years , IBM people and solutions have been helping schools and institutions
of higher education innovate for greater achievement, productivity and
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About The Kuali Project
The Kuali Project creates software that provides a comprehensive suite of
functionality to serve the financial systems needs of all Carnegie Class
institutions. The design is an enhancement of the proven functionality
of Indiana University's Financial Information System.

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Upon announcing the collaboration with The rSmart Group Patrick Carey, IBM
Business Consulting Services higher education leader, said , "in addition to
our support of Kuali as an open source development project, IBM will also
bring to bear the world's largest consulting organization with unparalleled
experience implementing and integrating financial systems. The success of any
financial system implementation is built upon effective change management as
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Together they will focus
on the long term success and market adoption of Kuali -- a powerful
combination of open source code, open standards and an open architecture that
defines the next generation of administrative applications for higher
education
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rSmart packages, certifies, deploys, and
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"rSmart's vision and the rapid innovation of Kuali along with IBM's
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formidable offering that challenges the competitive strategy of higher
education's proprietary software vendors.