Challenges

While management of communication for one campus can be a challenge for college administration, communication between multiple campuses can be even more difficult. Whether an institution aspires to integrate its campuses among a large network of sites or to connect colleges within a district, inter-campus communication is critical to unify the various campuses and to create a viable user experience for the students, faculty, and staff that must receive and distribute information from all campuses. Connecting information resources not only streamlines communication, but also enables branded growth and development of programs and curriculum among the connected colleges.

Issues

Investing in several programs and platforms for cross (inter/intra) campus information management serves to keep communication solutions disparate and decentralized and is a cost that provides limited return on investment. At the same time, campuses can not throw out existing applications where great investments have already been made. Multi-campus institutions must implement an enterprise portal that unifies campus communities and provides a complete and total solution those institutions will not outgrow.

Value Solution

The value of a networked portal is maximized when all members of a college community across and between campuses are connected. In addition, the ease in which users can access real-time content from multiple campuses to accomplish one task without the need to enter several different web sites provides incredible efficiency for distribution of information and positive user experience.

As institutions and campuses expand, the CampusCruiser enterprise portal enables them to forge communities and networks that become interdependent universes of information.

The CampusCruiser portal provides the following unique benefits to the multi-campus organization:

• Easy customization of information gathering cross-campus
• Resource sharing and reusability
• Collective ROI among networked colleges
• Unity across campuses
• Improved user experience through user-centered functionality

The multi-campus set-up of the portal leverages maximum benefits of pre-existing applications and is designed to accommodate the current technological set-up as well as changes that occur with institutional growth and development with out requiring an overhaul of each campuses existing IT structure or excessive IT expenditures. With CampusCruiser portal, multi-campus organizations have the power of communication and information management without the extra burden of managing interconnectivity, hardware, or the expense of the user experience.

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