Higher Education Technology Implementation Solutions

• Higher Education Technology Implementation Solutions
  • IT Strategy

    IT Strategy

    As higher education institutions look to align their information technology resources and investments to their strategic business, academic, and research mission and objectives, Huron provides:

    • IT strategic planning and IT governance services.
    • IT assessments, benchmarking, and best practice insights.
    • IT organization structure evaluations and enhancements.
    • IT service delivery maturity analysis and recommendations.
    • IT financial management reviews and guidance.
    • Program management expertise and IT strategy implementation services.

  • Cloud Planning

    Cloud Planning

    Huron provides a comprehensive approach that guides universities through their cloud transformation and helps them to develop:

    • Goals, objectives and governance for the project.
    • The financial plan and project roadmap.
    • A change management strategy.
    • Identification of data integration and migration needs.

  • Financials

    Financials

    As institutions look to move their financial management to the cloud and modernize their business processes, Huron offers:

    • Chart of Accounts Design.
    • Implementation services including planning, change management, business process design, configuration, testing, go-live readiness and support.
    • Prebuilt higher education financial business processes and reports.
    • Data preparation, integration, analytics and reporting.
    • Workday and Oracle implementation expertise.

  • Planning and Budgeting

    Planning and Budgeting

    Higher education institutions need the right tools and processes to support strategic resource alignment and visibility. Huron offers:

    • Strategic planning and assessments that integrate technology and best practice business processes.
    • Implementation of industry leading applications leveraging pre-built solutions that support all aspects and models of Higher Education planning and budgeting.
    • Oracle and Anaplan implementation expertise.

  • Human Capital Management

    Human Capital Management

    When deploying HCM platforms, institutions look to provide a full spectrum of solutions to support faculty, staff, union and student workers. Huron provides:

    • Prebuilt higher education HCM business process design and configuration.
    • Implementation services including planning, change management, business process design, configuration, testing, go-live readiness and support.
    • Data preparation, integration, analytics and reporting.
    • Workday and Oracle implementation expertise.

  • Business Intelligence

    Business Intelligence

    With so much change in higher education, using true, up-to-date analytics is more important than ever. Huron offers:

    • Assessment of the university’s current reporting environment and a roadmap for improvement.
    • Consolidation of information from multiple sources into one source of truth.
    • Implementation of industry leading business intelligence solutions on premise or in the cloud.
    • Delivered or custom reporting.

  • Student Systems

    Student Systems

    From applicant to alumni, make scalable strategic and technology decisions that will streamline the entire student lifecycle. Huron offers:

    • Student strategy design.
    • Workday, Salesforce and Oracle implementation expertise.

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    Higher Education institutions use CRM to manage constituents including students, alumni, donors and corporate partners. Huron offers:

    • Implementation of solutions including student recruiting and admissions, student service, student success, advancement, corporate relations and athletics.
    • Custom development for legacy application replacement and other needs.
    • Experience with Salesforce CRM implementations including the Higher Education Data Architecture and industry-specific modules including Student Advisor Link.

  • Procurement

    Procurement

    Higher education institutions look to use procure-to-pay technologies to support their purchasing and payables processes. Huron’s procurement technology services include:

    • Evaluation of optimal technology.
    • Development of business cases.
    • Planning for technology implementations, including change leadership and process redesign.
    • Implementation of procurement technologies.
    • Optimization of existing procurement technologies.

  • Travel and Expense Management

    Travel and Expense Management

    Travel and expense management functions generate savings, improve process efficiency, support compliance and enhance the traveler’s experience. Huron’s travel and expense technology services include:

    • Evaluation of current travel and expense programs, including strategies, processes and culture.
    • Development of business cases for travel and/or expense technologies.
    • Planning for travel and/or expense technology implementations, including change leadership and process redesign.
    • Implementation and/or configuration of travel and expense technologies.
    • Optimization of existing travel and expense technologies and overall travel and expense programs.

  • Research

    Research

    In today’s fiercely competitive research environment, it is increasingly difficult to maintain a world-class research enterprise. To support this critical and vital function at institutions, Huron offers:

    • Flexible and scalable options for full configurability and back-office outsourcing.
    • Facilitated compliance for any-sized research organization.
    • Research services for evaluation, implementation and optimization of Huron Research Suite (formerly Click).