Many colleges and universities are seeking new software solutions for recruitment and admissions. Schools must understand the investment required to implement, maintain, and support the system on an ongoing basis. When choosing a long-term higher education admission software partner, institutions should remember that the relationship must be sustained for many years, and the technology must be future-proofed as the platform evolves. Any system will require upgrades and enhancements along with maintenance and support in perpetuity, and these elements do not come without some associated expense in time and effort.
In this industry, the most common higher education admission software vendors under consideration can typically be characterized as follows:
- Point Solutions
- Platform Solutions
Most Common Reason Schools Select a Point Solution
At first glance, a Point Solution appears to be the lowest budget choice for higher education admission software. On paper, a Point Solution product seems to require the smallest upfront cost. On an annual basis, the licensing fees are often unlimited and appear relatively small, especially compared to a complete Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Platform like Salesforce. On the other hand, some schools later reported that they needed to account for the full breadth of the deployment and support fees required to stand the product up and maintain it on an ongoing basis. The project’s implementation, training, upgrades, and future-proof status were somewhat overlooked or underestimated. Further, the CRM capabilities, such as reporting, communication, and automation, are limited in many point solutions from an ease-of-administrative perspective.
Most Common Reason Schools Select a Platform Solution
A Platform Solution, such as Salesforce, offers comprehensive and future-proof CRM functionality vital for the long-term operability of any higher education admission software strategy. The platform inherently provides unparalleled flexibility, automation, communication, and ease-or-reporting options. Colleges and universities may adopt various strategies to implement Salesforce for recruitment and admissions, ranging from working with dedicated partners in the industry (such as Enrollment Rx) to supporting internal self-implementations for particular use cases. Regardless of the deployment strategy, it is always important that each project’s scope of work should account for the actual total cost of ownership, including a comprehensive discovery process, product configuration, training, and ongoing support expectations.
Why Select Enrollment Rx: Best-of-Breed in Higher Education Admission Software
We believe that Enrollment Rx offers the best approach for colleges and universities that are seeking to adopt Salesforce for recruitment and admissions. Enrollment Rx provides the leading solution for higher education admission software. We take full advantage of the CRM capabilities of the Salesforce platform combined with the higher education expertise of our team to deliver industry-leading functionality that future-proofs our higher education admission software solution.
Institutions get out-of-the-box capabilities explicitly built for recruitment and admissions while allowing for further configuration and customization. Enrollment Rx’s suite of products comes equipped with composable capabilities that allow for quickly adaptable user administration and comprehensive tutorials and guides. Best of all, Enrollment Rx provides a predictable implementation fee and annual licensing expense for colleges and universities to deploy, maintain, and upgrade. Our clients understand staff resources and skill sets needed to support the system and get the most value from the platform. They can achieve organizational efficiency from the inherent benefits of composable software capabilities rather than struggling with traditional software development environments. Enrollment Rx also provides ongoing product enhancements and upgrades inspired by client feature requests and real-world challenges at other institutions, ensuring a future-proof higher education admission software strategy.
Enrollment Rx works with educational institutions to replace legacy, outdated admissions software with our Salesforce-based solution for recruitment and admissions. We believe this formula offers the best future-proof strategy for colleges and universities by blending Enrollment Rx’s ed-tech functionality with Salesforce for admissions at your school. Each new project reminds us why Enrollment Rx chooses to develop our higher ed software products for recruitment, admissions, and decisions (R.A.D.) on Salesforce. Please contact us to learn how we can help make Salesforce RAD for you!
