Jenzabar Expands i3
Strategy With Launch of Five New CRM Portlets for Internet Campus
Solution Suite
Constituent Relationship Management Modules Add
New Level of Campus Wide Integration For Students, Faculty and Administrators
Cambridge, MA—Oct. 28, 2002—Jenzabar, Inc.,
a leader in software solutions for higher education, today announced
five new Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Portlets to its
award winning Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution product. The CRM
modules, CRM Admission Officer™, CRM Advancement Officer™,
CRM Staff™, CRM Student™and CRM Web Events Management™,
provide the information and tools appropriate to the user's role
on campus, be that of a student, a faculty member, an administrator
or a senior executive.
Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution is the only Web-based
software suite that seamlessly integrates each end of a college
campus, from students to administrators to faculty, and delivers
role-based access to administrative and academic information. Jenzabar's
i3 strategy of Intelligent, Integrated
and Internet encapsulates the features and functionality of Jenzabar's
Internet Campus Solution. The i3 strategy
includes business practices and Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution
suite to help colleges improve educational practices, campus operations
and efficiencies.
Colleges and universities are well known for being
"data rich, but information poor." Few institutions can
take advantage of their data warehouse and make intelligent business
decisions. Jenzabar's database intelligence pushes role-appropriate
customized information. For example, a college president will see
daily enrollment and fund raising figures. For a student advisor,
the Portlet provides necessary tools to assist students, such as
students' profile information and degree audit. Portlets simplify
the extraction of value-based data from application systems for
trend analysis, with consolidated reporting across multiple subject
areas of the campus.
"Nationwide college presidents are looking for
ways to seamlessly increase communications with students, faculty
and administrators and at the same time eliminate antiquated computer
systems," said Bob Maginn, CEO of Jenzabar, Inc. "With
Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution and new CRM Portlets, colleges
can reach new levels of efficiency in student recruitment, faculty
and administrator retention and campus wide communications."
CRM in Action - The Benefits of Jenzabar Portlets
The following five CRM modules provide anytime,
anywhere access to features and functionality for users, in a familiar
environment that is easy to learn and use. These include:
- CRM Admission Officer provides admissions officers
with 24-by-7 access to enter information on prospective students
via the Web and view and update candidate information, including
contacts, folder items, application status and family data. Admissions
Officers can instantly access presentations for candidates and
families, such as degree programs, catalogs and financial aid
data.
- CRM Advancement Officer provides advancement officers
with instant access to information about constituents, allows
them to manage campaigns, track planned giving efforts and projects
for grants and grant information. The Campaign Management component
provides fund raising professionals with information at their
fingertips to follow, evaluate and manage campaigns. The Planned
Giving component organizes information on donors making substantial
gifts to a college. The Stewardship Component provides access
to grant proposals, participants in the grant, funding of the
grant, reporting periods and specific requirements and conditions
attached to the grant.
- CRM Staff provides employees of a college with
up-to-the-date information on their employment history, salary
history and other payroll and benefit information. Efficiencies
within Human Resource departments are increased by allowing employees
to look up information themselves. From the CRM Staff module,
employees can apply for open job positions, change benefit plan
information, enter time sheet information, view their payroll
year-to-date information and update employee biographical information,
including emergency contacts, dependents and addresses.
- CRM Student provides students with 24-by-7 online
registration with real time checking for valid courses, access
to class schedules and required textbooks, as well as financial
aid and billing charges, calculations on GPA projections based
on the students grades and facilitates a student emailing their
advisor or instructor for one or more of their courses.
- CRM Web Events Management provides faculty, administrators
and staff with role-based access and single sign-on during the
planning of/and after a campus wide event. The easy-to-use interface
allows for an event planner to manage registration, event housing,
event meals, event activities and event travel arrangements.
"The landscape for student recruitment
has changed dramatically in the past five years and to compete in
today's environment we needed to dramatically upgrade the campus
computer network to show students, faculty and administrators that
we are committed to improving campus-wide communications,"
according to Dr. Howell Garner, president of Copiah Lincoln Community
College, a user of Jenzabar's i3 and CRM
solutions. "Using Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution will
enable Copiah Lincoln Community College to move from the technology
stone age to the information age where the delay in sharing information
between students and faculty is no longer hours or days but only
minutes."
About Jenzabar, Inc.
By improving the exchange of information through powerful
business intelligence applications and services, Jenzabar's Internet
Campus Solutions and i3 Internet strategy
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.
For more information, please visit www.jenzabar.net.
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Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution and i3
are trademarks of Jenzabar, Inc.
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