Reliable Business Continuity
August 30, 2021

Reliable Business Continuity

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ellucian Colleague

We use Ellucian Colleague across our whole organization for all of our ERP needs. We are able to utilize the product for our higher education needs such as for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and business functions. Over the time that we've adopted the solution we adopted other enhancement Ellucian products within the suite to make reaching into the database more productive. We come a long way since the initial implementation. Now we look forward to further features coming down the pike so we'll be able to let many of the daily data entry tasks more accessible for users to do for themselves.
  • Accounting
  • Data Integrity
  • Data Insight
  • Documentation
  • Database evolution
  • Cost
  • Operations have been reliable
  • Some increased costs have been unwelcome
  • Not as third-party friendly
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.

Do you think Ellucian Colleague delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Ellucian Colleague's feature set?

Yes

Did Ellucian Colleague live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Ellucian Colleague go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Ellucian Colleague again?

Yes

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Arcsight Enterprise Security Manager (formerly HP Arcsight), Belkin Meeting Room Power Center
Colleague is a time tested solution that still manages to get the work done. Updates are still made regularly and the backend functions remain reliably compliant. There are some limitations to the database that some other solutions may do better as they do not have a long history of legacy elements to support. Still the solution remains reliable and trustworthy, where newcomer solutions may be a little too green field and costly to initiate a change.

Ellucian Colleague Feature Ratings

Student Attendance Tracking
9
Student Health Information
9
Grade Book Management
9
Student Background Records
9
Student and Parent Portal
9
Transcript Management
10
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
6
Platform Customization
8
Student Data Security
10
Class Scheduling
8
State and National-level Reporting
8
Compliance Support
9