Step by Step Guide to Evaluating Your Administrative Systems

Is your institution currently using an aging or outdated administrative system to manage your student, financial and human resources processes? 

Have you been challenged to provide evidence that the current administrative systems are supporting your user community AND the institution’s strategic vision?

Has your institution decided to move forward with a new system, but need help identifying options and evaluating their capabilities to meet your institutional needs?

Many higher education colleges and universities continue to use aging and outdated administrative systems to manage their institutions.  Invariably these systems are based on outdated technology, have poor tools for data extraction and reporting, are cumbersome to change or update, and are not integrated or web-based.  In short, these systems are not keeping up with today’s stakeholder needs.

We have summarized our best practices in working with higher education institutions who have faced these challenges, laying out a step-by-step approach to carry out a systematic examination of the strengths and weaknesses of your current systems, and outline the pluses and minuses of possible options going forward.

We invite you to download this free resource, entitled “Evaluating Your Legacy Administrative Systems:  How to Conduct a Study to Determine Options”.  According to edu1world.org, If you are considering evaluating the replacement of a legacy system, this article is a must read.  One of the best papers on the topic.

Inside the article:

• 5 critical steps to conduct this study
• Best practices in efficient methods to collect data
• Quantitative & qualitative assessment factors to evaluate options
• Sample high-level comparison of options going forward