Ellucian Colleague vs. Workday Student

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ellucian Colleague
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Ellucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.N/A
Workday Student
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Workday Student is the company's student information system (SIS), which features support for student recruitment and admission, curriculum management, student record and enrollment support with student portal, as well as financial aid and tuition management.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Student and Faculty Administration
Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Product A and Product B
Ellucian Colleague
9.4
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Workday Student
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Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Registration Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Roster Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Customization10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Student Data Security10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Community Support10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Class Scheduling9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance Support10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Ellucian ColleagueWorkday Student
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Ellucian ColleagueWorkday Student
Likelihood to Recommend
Ellucian
Colleague Student is a great solution for smaller schools. I'm not sure it would work well at a large university (10,000 plus students) -- I'm not sure it has capacity to handle that. It is also well suited for universities where departments communicate well with each other. There is so much cross functionality, that if departments don't communicate well, issues could arise if one department makes changes without notifying or talking with other departments about the change
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Workday
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Pros
Ellucian
  • Colleague offers a single reference point for all student data, which creates consistency and unity across campus and ensures students hear the same information from every source.
  • Colleague recently updated its interface to be more accessible to all people. Previously, it was not accessible through any browser aside from Internet Explorer.
  • Colleague provide helpful user restrictions that prevent departments from altering or erasing data they do not typically use. For example, I cannot change student billing and accidentally wreak havoc for the cashier's office.
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Workday
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Cons
Ellucian
  • Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
  • Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
  • Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
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Workday
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Alternatives Considered
Ellucian
Ellucian Colleague remains the most cost competitive solution for our organization. Alternative solutions, have had ridiculously high migration costs and ongoing maintenance fees which have not been friendly toward a migration of our existing data. Some the features of the other solutions are very nice to "haves" but the reward has to out-weigh the cost of adoption.
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Workday
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Return on Investment
Ellucian
  • By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.
  • Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.
  • Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.
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Workday
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