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Ellucian Colleague

Ellucian Colleague

Overview

What is Ellucian Colleague?

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.

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Consistency and Unity: Users appreciate that Colleague offers a single reference point for all student data, creating consistency and …
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Helpful in Most Cases!

7 out of 10
November 28, 2018
Incentivized
Colleague Student is being used across various departments (Enrollment Services, Admissions, International Student Office, etc). It helps …
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Florante Roa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Florante Roa
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations
College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
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Product Details

What is Ellucian Colleague?

Ellucian Colleague Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 11, 2021

Ellucian Colleague--the right technology to help students succeed

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Ellucian Colleague is used as the main ERP system for our college. We have in use many of the modules that are available, such as Core Student, Human Resources, Purchasing, Student planning, and ETHOS. It handles the student registration process, employee management, student record management, business office functions, and also integrates with many third-party systems.
Pros and Cons
  • It encompasses many areas needed to support our students
  • Ellucian Colleague offers solutions that make it easy to unite our staff with students and alumni
  • Its a versatile solution and adaptable with third-party solutions as well
  • Their portal technology is outdated; they still currently use SharePoint 2013.
  • Engagement from Ellucian customer representatives
  • Recruiting module needs to be updated to match other solutions in the industry.
Likelihood to Recommend
Ellucian Colleague is well suited for an organization looking for a solution that is flexible and allows them to design workflows and processes that align with their business. Ellucian Colleague is able to bring a unique integration strategy into your organization and connect to third-party systems and data very effectively.
Most Important Features
  • Self-service features
  • Integration with third-party solutions
  • Ability to customize to fit our needs.
Return on Investment
  • Positive return on student impact and engagement
  • Positive relationship between our alumni and development staff
  • Consulting engagements do get costly with Ellucian professional services
Alternatives Considered
Ellucian Colleague has been in use at my institution for over 20 years. We have recently reevaluated the solution and, from a financial perspective, it was our decision to stick with it for the future as well. We have realigned our budget working with Ellucian and partnering for the future by adopting early access to new modules and providing feedback.
Other Software Used
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Lansweeper, Amazon Web Services
March 08, 2021

Colleague is a sensible choice

Stephen Swan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephen Swan
DBA
Indiana Wesleyan University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Ellucian Colleague is our primary ERP for all areas it supports including Student Records, Financial Aid, HR, and others. Our entire university depends greatly upon this software as the primary repository of data from admission to alumni as well as employee management. We have very few areas that don't depend upon Ellucian Colleague on a daily basis.
Pros and Cons
  • Student Processing - Has a place for everything.
  • Customizable - Fields and processes can be readily adjusted.
  • Stable - Colleague has been around for a long time and works well.
  • High learning curve for management and use.
  • Doesn't integrate well with external tools.
  • Dependent upon legacy Unidata programming.
Likelihood to Recommend
Colleague is well suited to those looking for a one-stop shop for Higher Education. Additionally, they provide tools to customize most of their products. They are top notch for those looking for a student life cycle. Schools looking for an out of the box solution will do fairly well here as well when paired with a company to help manage the server sprawl and updates.

Since the student area is the primary focus, there are other best of breed tools for other areas for those not looking for a student focused toolset.
Most Important Features
  • Customizable.
  • Student records lifecycle.
  • Decent support.
Return on Investment
  • We could not do business without Colleague.
Alternatives Considered
We originally started on Jenzabar Cars platform and then evaluated PeopleSoft and SCT Banner.
Colleague won out on cost compared to PeopleSoft and features over Banner.
We noticed that PeopleSoft had a better technical underpinning with a greater integration with workflow.
Colleague had a better out of the box experience than either of the other two even though we heavily customized it from there.
Other Software Used
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Microsoft SQL Server
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