Enrollment Rx responds to many Requests for Proposal (RFP) documents every year. These are typically intended and designed to detail the comprehensive higher education admissions software requirements at the issuing institution. The ultimate purpose is to score the vendors, based on criteria, in order to select the “best fit” for the institution.
While Enrollment Rx (and our competitors, no doubt) invest an enormous amount of time in responding to these opportunities, I wonder to what extent the universities or colleges are interested in the feedback from the higher education admissions software vendors on the quality of the questions and their due diligence processes.
We find that real diligence is often lacking when it comes to determining the best higher education admissions software fit. Enrollment Rx would give most RFP documents a low score in the quality of questions and information collected as the highest priority items in determining the best fit for the institution. Enrollment Rx believes that it is important to address the following components thoroughly:
Recruitment
Admissions
Events
Data – Reports and Dashboards
Communication
Integration
Any RFP for higher education admissions software project that does not properly address the above concerns is susceptible to failure down the line. Too many RFP documents do not thoroughly account for the current and future needs of the institution, thus resulting in siloed and limited systems, rather than scalable enterprise higher education admissions software solutions.
Does your university or college higher education admissions software include all of the above functionality in one single platform? Can you control it with clicks-not-code configurability? We want to help your higher education admissions software succeed.
Contact us to schedule a demo of our higher education admissions software solution.
