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2006 Campus Technology Innovators: Outsourcing
7/22/2006
TECHNOLOGY AREA: OUTSOURCING
Innovator: Drexel University
BIELEC, AT DREXEL: Bringing IT benefits to
his
university and its campus partners, via an ASP model.
Challenge Met
A majority of the over 3,500 colleges in the US have fewer than 2,000 students. Realizing this, Drexel University (PA) has partnered with more than 50 colleges in an application service provider (ASP) arrangement in which Drexel hosts the software and services on its campus. Through the ASP arrangement, headed by John Bielec (Drexel CIO and VP for information resources and technology), the partner campuses now fund 27 percent of Drexel’s central IT costs, and 20 percent of central IT staff. This has enabled the university to maintain its IT spending costs at a constant level since 1997, and if annual cost-of-living adjustments are considered, IT spending has declined.
The ASP arrangement, which began with a single school five years ago, benefits both Drexel and its partner schools:
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