"We’re excited to look at our various recruitment initiatives and see where we're getting the biggest bang for our efforts."

"I think the area that is going to be most transformational is going to be on the student success side."

"From a business continuity and cybersecurity standpoint, it’s a weight off my shoulders. We’re safe with Ellucian.”

"That alone was a major shift. It allowed us to be much more strategic in the way that we operate here. We no longer have to focus on our ability to deliver infrastructure and keep all these applications running—we do that in partnership now with our Ellucian Cloud Service delivery …

"It was very, very important that we got a system that was up-to-date, a system that was more this century, mobile-friendly—be able to use it on the phone, on the iPad, or whatever you are using—user friendly, and able to learn the system very easily and quickly was very, very …

"We've been on Banner for [30] years and see no reason to switch to any inferior ERP system, seeing that Banner is the very best in the education space."

"We were obviously glad to land with Ellucian, and through project management and implementation, they were there for us."

"The previous platform is a legacy platform that has not kept up with the developments that would facilitate the teaching and learning needs of the organization. We have a system that has been really stagnant for the last 20 years. We recently came up with a technology plan that aspires …

"The bi-directional feed between Ellucian CRM Recruit and Banner works well with verifications and distributions. No other CRMs did this they all did it with batching, and we initially looked at 25 of them."

"I now have real-time data showing me how many students are currently enrolled in a particular course, semester, year, or location and can make better management decisions on the fly. I’ve designed a report that works perfectly for my needs, and I can run it any time at the touch …

"Before Colleague Reporting and Operating Analytics, we were constantly scrambling to assemble the right data in time, having to retrieve information from multiple sources, and struggling to ensure accuracy. We have now designed a variety of reports using reliable data collected and updated on an ongoing basis, not just when …

“Colleague Reporting and Operating Analytics was a sound investment from both a cost and strategic perspective. Built-in business intelligence tools, the reduced need for additional technical staff, and more resources being applied to using analytics to further our business goals is already yielding a positive return on investment.”

“Our institutional strategy for reporting and analytics is more coordinated and cohesive. We have empowered more people to help themselves, so that resources across the board are being used more efficiently and strategically.”

“We’re getting a historically immense amount of data, all contained in Colleague. The system gets better by the day as new data is constantly being imported.”

“By bringing three databases into one, licensing, databases and infrastructure management is much smoother than before. Having now reduced the number of servers needed for the full implementation for the three entities by approximately 60 percent, there is also a huge operational cost-saving aspect.”