Strategic Academic Enterprise

The next generation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is here – the Strategic Academic Enterprise.  Far beyond the back-office functionality of an ERP, the Strategic Academic Enterprise blends the administrative and the academic areas of a campus addressing the holistic business needs of an institution.

An ERP, as defined by Gartner, is only administrative software comprised of at least three components -- HR, Financials, and Student information -- that are loosely or tightly coupled. 

For years, Datatel has offered solutions beyond this ERP definition and now we recognize the need to broaden our solutions even further and develop new solutions to meet your needs for these major business processes:

Strategic Enrollment Management

Strategic Enrollment Management encompasses the entire student cycle, from prospective students to alumni. We provide SEM solutions to meet your goals whether they are to increase enrollment by 10% or to establish a lasting and growing alumni community.

Institutional Advancement and Marketing

Institutional Advancement and Marketing enables you to create emotional ties to the institution with coordinated outreach to all constituents including alumni, parents, community members, and the media at large.  Datatel’s leading e-marketing solutions – ActiveAdmissions and ActiveAlumni – help you build engaging Web experiences to personalize communications, build vibrant communities, and foster life-long relationships.  ActiveAlumni along with Colleague Advancement, gives you ability to focus on your fundraising campaigns to meet your goals. The members of our Datatel Creative Design Team have earned more than 30 industry awards for creating effective, engaging Web sites that consistently help institutions increase applicants and enrollment.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning is at the heart of every institution’s vision and mission. With Datatel’s ActiveCampus Portal, you can utilize its powerful collaborative team sites to augment the educational experience meeting both the teaching goals of faculty members and learning needs of students. 

Performance and Operational Management

Performance and Operational Management includes the critical business processes that help institutions optimize their effectiveness. Datatel offers a myriad of solutions for organizing, automating, and analyzing your process methodologies, metrics, and systems to drive your institution’s performance.  With Datatel’s solutions, you will increase efficiencies and productivity across your campus saving you time and money. For example:

• With Colleague, every department works cohesively – Student, Financial Aid, Finance, HR, and Advancement.  All the data is integrated into one central database.
• Colleague Workflow fine tunes your processes so everyday tasks are routed and completed quickly and easily
• ActiveCampus Portal provides a single location for all tools and solutions your staff, students and faculty need to increase collaboration and productivity.
• With Datatel’s reporting solutions, SuccessOrchestrator, you can easily access, analyze and understand accurate, reliable information.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning is a disciplined, collaborative process that shapes and guides an institution’s identity, mission, and purpose.  This outcome-driven process helps institutions develop, align, and deploy long-term strategies and short-term operational plans across the campus and throughout the community. Datatel offers a wide range of services to help our clients in the area of strategic planning – from complimentary action planning to detailed usage audits to be certain you are utilizing the systems you have across campus. The Datatel Center for Institutional Effectiveness provides programs and courses on continuous quality improvement and strategic planning.