ERP system coming to campus
Lauren Carroccia
Issue date: 4/8/09 Section: News Stories
Assumption College has employed significant technological advancement in the past few years, the latest being the new DATATEL system, a form of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.? This system is a new administration service for the entire campus, providing a single access point for information pertaining to both academics and administration for the college.
Specifically designed for higher education, this software will not only benefit the students, but provide them with a single convenient location and one central database. Major functions and resources from a varying range of places will be housed into a single network.?
"ERP is important because the system itself links things like college finance, admissions, financial aid, student information, course information and institutional advancement. It allows the college to gather data from all of those areas," explained Dawn Thistle, Director of Library Services and IT. Thistle also added that students can link their demographic information, course schedules, bills and finances with this new system, as well as integrate with the alumni offices upon graduation.
"We have selected DATATEL and the product is called Colleague," said Thistle, describing the system that pulls everything together. "We wanted to have an entry point into the college for everybody who works here and all the students who attend here, so you can log into the portal and it gives you the information that you need to know."
This system will benefit all departments of the college, as staff and administration will be able to use real-time integrated budget and planning tools, faculty can submit their grades online and students can access their degree audits all on one centralized database.
Planning to implement this system began over the summer, when the school signed contracts and started to buy hardware and new servers to form and house the database. Representatives from DATATEL came to campus and interviewed to figure out the best way to enact the system. Training groups met and continue to meet almost every day to put the new system into place.
Specifically designed for higher education, this software will not only benefit the students, but provide them with a single convenient location and one central database. Major functions and resources from a varying range of places will be housed into a single network.?
"ERP is important because the system itself links things like college finance, admissions, financial aid, student information, course information and institutional advancement. It allows the college to gather data from all of those areas," explained Dawn Thistle, Director of Library Services and IT. Thistle also added that students can link their demographic information, course schedules, bills and finances with this new system, as well as integrate with the alumni offices upon graduation.
"We have selected DATATEL and the product is called Colleague," said Thistle, describing the system that pulls everything together. "We wanted to have an entry point into the college for everybody who works here and all the students who attend here, so you can log into the portal and it gives you the information that you need to know."
This system will benefit all departments of the college, as staff and administration will be able to use real-time integrated budget and planning tools, faculty can submit their grades online and students can access their degree audits all on one centralized database.
Planning to implement this system began over the summer, when the school signed contracts and started to buy hardware and new servers to form and house the database. Representatives from DATATEL came to campus and interviewed to figure out the best way to enact the system. Training groups met and continue to meet almost every day to put the new system into place.
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