Jenzabar Solution A "Spectacular Success" for
Central Florida Community College
Jenzabar Financials Implemented on Campuses in Three Months

CAMBRIDGE, MA-September 5, 2002-Across the United States and around the world, millions of people know central Florida as a place where spectacular fireworks go off every night at Disney's Epcot Center. A short hop away from Disney World, Bill Strait, Director of Information Technology at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) in Ocala, Florida, used that very word, "spectacular," to describe the stunning success of Jenzabar's CX implementation in record time.

CFCC initiated their search for a new system to replace their aging legacy system with one that had some bells and whistles and would not break down once a week. Their old system, a homegrown COBOL mainframe system inherited from another Florida institution, contained portions that were more than 30 years old. The IT staff spent gobs of time and money making the necessary yearly changes to it, and still it really didn't work as required. Having had enough of these ongoing trials, CFCC started an RFP process to find a new system. In the end, CFCC chose Jenzabar as the unquestionable winner over all the usual competitors.

"The staff had universally rated Jenzabar's CX solution higher than all the other vendors," stated Strait. "And with that, Jenzabar's offer came in under the other final vendor's price."

Another important aspect of CFCC and Jenzabar's new partnership had to do with the State of Florida's reporting requirements. "The Florida-based Jenzabar [CX] Solution already has all the state reports available with it," Strait explained. "We don't have the extra expense of having to write all those reports. That's terrific!"

The next challenge was an extremely tight deadline for bringing the Jenzabar CX financials live on the campuses. CFCC needed to have their Financials running by July 1 so that they would have reporting from a single system for an entire fiscal year. "The Jenzabar staff bent over backwards to get the system up and running-and did so in three months," Strait commented. "From an operational standpoint, the software was in place, the tables were set up, and the system was ready to go on time-it was spectacular."
About the Jenzabar implementation process so far at CFCC, Strait summed it up by saying, "I've been through several implementations and so far this is the best by far. These people are terrific to work with."

About Central Florida Community College

Central Florida Community College promotes learning in an open, caring, inclusive environment that encourages individual and community development inspired by shared values of integrity, service, responsibility, and dignity. Established as Central Florida Junior College in 1957 as a comprehensive, public, community junior college, the College later grew as a merging of Central Florida Junior College and Hampton Junior College in 1966 and was renamed Central Florida Community College in 1971.

CFCC has two campuses, the original Ocala Campus, west of downtown Ocala, and the Citrus County Campus, which opened in 1984 at the Lecanto Joint Use Facility. A new free-standing campus opened in the fall of 1996. With continuing growth, the college is able to offer a variety of courses to students in Citrus County. CFCC is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Florida Department of Education to award Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees, credit and occupational certificates.

About Jenzabar, Inc.

By improving the exchange of information through powerful business intelligence applications and services, Jenzabar's Internet enterprise software, e-learning solutions, and services deliver a competitive edge to higher education institutions. Dedicated to supporting and enhancing the educational community, Jenzabar's business units serve 700 higher education institutions worldwide, including students, professors, and administrators from private liberal arts, medical, law, state, and community colleges. Institutions employing Jenzabar solutions include The Claremont Colleges, Colby College, Daytona Beach Community College, William Mitchell College of Law, Governors State University, Bluffton College, Florida Southern College, Bay de Noc Community College, Berry College, and Harvard Medical School.

Jenzabar's offerings include Web-based enterprise software with student, institutional advancement, human resources, and financial applications; e-learning solutions; and a higher education enterprise information portal (EIP). Founded in 1998, Jenzabar is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently employs more than 300 people in regional offices across the United States.