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![]() | Ellen Goldey Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Centre College |
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Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS) helps you connect with all your constituents, from applicants to alumni, and keep them engaged and involved in the life of your school. It’s a powerful resource that offers everyone on campus a single point of access to Web-based self-service, eLearning, communications, and community-building applications. With one login and password, your constituents have 24x7 access to role-specific content, from administrative records and reports to personal email and calendars, from chat rooms to online exams. JICS delivers a flexible, customizable, and extremely scalable infrastructure— the mission-critical elements of a successful portal.
Ellucian is ranked 15th in ERP with 1 review while Jenzabar JICS is ranked 34th in ERP. Ellucian is rated 9.0, while Jenzabar JICS is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Ellucian writes "Presents all information in one place and automates some of our manual processes". On the other hand, Ellucian is most compared with PeopleSoft, SAP ERP, Oracle ERP Cloud, CampusNexus Student and Oracle E-Business Suite, whereas Jenzabar JICS is most compared with CampusNexus Student and PeopleSoft.
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I'm no expert on the platforms, Ellucina or Jenzabar CXsmall. I'm also not really familiar with degree auditing, what type of database management or which databases you wish to integrate. My expertise is more surrounding the software evaluation process itself than any particular product.
What I do is helping companies evaluate software and our basic premise is to collect requirements, rank requirements, understand the cost/revenue analysis of requirements and then seek software solutions that directly address the most acute requirements as well as software that covers most of the total requirement set.
Generic comparisons between software often factors in things like, Is it .Net technology? Can it scale to hundreds of users? - when the underlying technology may be of zero importance and a small residential college will never have use for 100's of users.
In any case, current staff will have an understanding of the workloads needed and can attend scripted demos and presentations on the different software - and the final question, to your Degree Auditor Manager (or whatever title that person holds) is 'Can you audit more degrees using this software tool?' (If the volume of audits is actually a key factor, I don't know if it is or not.)
So what you're actually comparing is not the software itself, but the fit of each software within your organization.
Along the way you're going to want to develop measurable goals for the project and understand the change management required to utilize the new tools you are acquiring. You'll also want to talk to other schools using the live software because we all know what we see in the demo and what actual humans using the software accomplish are two different things.