Warren Wilson College Picks New Resource Planning System
Warren
Wilson College near Asheville, N.C., has
chosen a new enterprise resource planning system.
The
liberal arts college, one of seven colleges
in the Work Colleges Consortium, replaced its existing student
information
system that representatives said it had outgrown with Jenzabar's system.
Ryan
M. Haylock, the college's chief technology
officer, said the new Jenzabar software will better fit the needs of
the unique
college in which all 1,800 students are required to both work at the
institution and participate in volunteer activities along with their
academic
programs.
"Jenzabar
was the only company to present
solutions to our unique needs," Haylock said. "It offers us the value
that we
did not see in our current solution or in other solutions we evaluated."
The new enterprise resource
planning system will allow the university to adopt its elements module
by
module as it needs them. Jenzabar's new cloud-based application has
embedded
analytics that can be accessed by administrators anytime anywhere, an
enterprise client relationship management system, responsive design and
a
mobile-first strategy that is intended to be student-friendly with a
number of
self-service aspects.
"Warren Wilson needed a
comprehensive and integrated solution, but they also needed an IT
partner that
understood their unique needs," said Jenzabar EX Business Unit
Executive Vice
President Sam Burgio. "Jenzabar EX provides a long-term platform that
enables
the growth and success of the college."
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Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.