Datatel Colleague Software as a Service (SaaS) Deployment

Leveraging Datatel Domain Expertise to Enable Institutions to Do More With Less

Your academic ERP system is the lifeblood of your organization, but it’s never been more challenging to find the resources and expertise to manage your system—and integrate everything within a highly diverse ERP ecosystem. Until now.

Datatel Colleague SaaS Deployment complements your IT department by enabling you to leverage over 30 years of Datatel’s higher education expertise in addition to investments in infrastructure, tools and processes that are optimized for managing Datatel applications. Software as a Service deployment relieves you of the tactical pressures and enables you to spend time on strategic leadership.

The SaaS Deployment Difference

With Colleague SaaS Deployment, you get all of the benefits of our industry-leading ERP—along with Datatel experts to manage the complexities of infrastructure and operations, without the hassles and risks of managing all of this in house. You avoid huge upfront capital investment while still enjoying a robust infrastructure that easily scales to handle peak periods such as registration.

You no longer have to worry about finding enough of the quality staff with the highly specialized skill-set required to manage your ERP infrastructure. You get Datatel’s unparalleled expertise as well as the tools and processes optimized for Datatel’s products.  And, you have the flexibility to migrate between on-premise and off-premise options as your requirements change.

Benefits

Colleague SaaS Deployment Helps Institutions:

• Alleviate IT staffing challenges
  Institutions can offload the challenges of assembling and maintaining staff who have Datatel-specific support knowledge. Existing staff now can focus on strategic initiatives to accelerate institutional effectiveness.  This helps institutions to leverage the mutual strengths of their IT staff and Datatel. 
• Eliminate hassles of infrastructure procurement and management
  Institutions no longer have to worry about acquiring hardware and related IT facility management challenges. Significant upfront capital expenditures associated with these activities are also eliminated.
• Leverage on-demand scalability
  The Colleague SaaS deployment option enables rapid scaling of resources to handle peak demand during times such as registration.
• Ensure timely availability of new capabilities
  From initial deployment through ongoing technology upgrades and refresh cycles, Datatel assumes responsibility for ensuring that the Colleague SaaS infrastructure takes advantage of the latest capabilities.  This enables institutions to realize maximum value from their investment since students, faculty and staff can benefit from new features as soon as they are available.
• Mitigate operational risk
  The Colleague SaaS deployment option uses best-in-class hosting infrastructure.  Rigorous application management processes combined with disaster recovery capabilities help resolve problems before users are impacted. This dramatically improves quality of service while lowering operational risk.

Colleague SaaS Hosting Environment

• SAS 70 Type II Certified Data Center
• Facilities Management
• Infrastructure Provisioning, Monitoring and Maintenance
• Network and Security Management
• Application and Database Administration
• Proactive Application Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Incidence Response
• Performance Management
• Data Backup and Recovery
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management
• Hosting-Related Technical Support

Learn more about Datatel Colleague or Datatel Managed Services.