through the eyes of our customers and
use those insights to develop tailored
solutions so they can properly meet their
mission goals.”
Through the SBA Mentor-Protégé
Program, KeyLogic will provide valuable
insight to Bravo in a variety of ways, in-
cluding guidance on business develop-
ment, assistance in navigating the fed-
eral contracting process and sharing
resources between the two companies
to identify potential opportunities. Key-
Logic, founded in 1999, has a long his-
tory of empowering federal agencies
to improve performance, ranging from
budget formulation to biometrics to
resource allocation.
West Virginia School of Osteopathic
Medicine Chooses Oracle Cloud
for Security and Lower Costs
One may not associate advanced tech-
nology with the rolling hills and rural
environment of Southern West Virginia,
but for a medical school that sits nestled
among those hills, technology plays
an important role in educating future
physicians.
That is why the West Virginia School of
WVSOM staff assist first-year
students with Oracle Cloud.
Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) made
the decision to switch to the Oracle Plat-
form Infrastructure Service in the Cloud
in order to beef up security and substan-
tially lower costs.
“It’s really important for our students
that we have this advanced technology
because we are now in a generation that has
grown up with phones and computers,”
says Kim Ransom, WVSOM’s director
of information technology. “There are
certain expectations of having technol-
ogy that is modern and current. In the
medical profession you don’t want to be
technologically behind the curve.”
Oracle is the underlying database that
the recently rolled out Banner 9, also
referred to as Banner XE, sits on, according
to Ransom. That database is used in higher
education institutions for registration,
financial aid, finance and human resources
departments. Moving to a cloud-based
system means WVSOM’s information
technology department could also elim-
inate physical servers, relying now on a
complete virtual environment.
According to Ransom, WVSOM was
the first higher education institution in
North America to make a complete tran-
sition to Oracle Cloud. The decision to
make the switch began a little more than
a year ago with work culminating on
May 30.
West Virginia State University
Receives 2018 Inspiring
Programs in STEM Award
West Virginia State University (WVSU)
received the 2018 Inspiring Programs
in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into
Diversity magazine, the largest and
oldest diversity and inclusion publica-
tion in higher education. The Inspiring
Programs in STEM Award honors col-
leges and universities that encourage and
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Your leadership and passion are instrumental to our
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