Vendor Landscape: Higher Education ERP
The old dogs are (finally) producing some new tricks.
- Universities and colleges have a diverse constituency (faculty, staff, students, donors, and alumni) that needs to be managed as resources and integrated into the financial planning.
- Each vendor in the higher education ERP space is inherently a specialist in one of the constituents, and therefore has strengths and deficiencies in its comprehensive solutions.
- There is no mystery to your higher education ERP needs - constituent management and financial management. The trick is deciding which is a priority and aligning specific vendor strengths with your priority.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Prioritize extensibility of the solution. The market is continuing to evolve; the vendors are still defining customer needs regarding resourcing and management of faculty.
- Focus on types of management tools. The market as a whole is focused on relationship management and not the traditional transactional data of ERP.
- You will need superior analytics as part of the solution. Data management and integration are becoming key differentiators in these products.
Impact and Result
- Use Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape for higher education ERP to select the right ERP feature set and achieve greater integration of your constituent management and financial planning.
- Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape for higher education ERP shortens selection time by examining pre-screened vendors appropriate for medium-sized colleges and universities.
- Save time and effort on vendor selection and focus on the challenges of implementation.
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Contributors
Rob Brennan, UWO