ERP Project Benefits

Specific Benefits

Specific benefits to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette resulting from the successful completion of this project include:

• Provide an integrated, comprehensive suite of higher education management software that is vendor supported, based on industry standards, and sustainable
• Improved services to students, faculty, and staff including alumni, parents of students, donors, and job applicants
• A careful and consistent analysis of the University’s current business practices to align institutional goals and objectives and customer service with the efficient and effective allocation of scarce University resources
• More efficient processes that are representative of postsecondary education best practice
• Tools to support better institutional planning, analysis, assessment,  and reporting
• Total thin-client, web-based deployment that provides a more intuitive graphical user interface that enables the use of self-service options for University constituents within all appropriate applications
• A unified, personal, web-based portal and community for all members of the University to access and securely share (where applicable) the University’s information resources and assets
• Access to data and information in real-time
• Increased functionality that existing legacy system is not capable of providing
• Improved system security compliant with state and federal regulations
• Employ modern workflow technology throughout the applications to reduce paperwork and improve operational efficiencies
• Increase end-user ownership of their information assets, processes necessary to collect and maintain those assets, and the methodology in which services are provided.

Other Intangible Benefits of the Project

• Improving service to all constituents: students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, donors, job applicants, prospective students, etc.;
• Providing a web-based presentation for all applications with an intuitive user interface;
• Providing an integrated, comprehensive suite of software that is a vendor supported, industry standard software package;
• Enabling the use of self-service options embedded within all appropriate applications;
• Establish and enhance end-user ownership of their information;
• Employing workflow technology throughout the applications;
• Improve cooperation and coordination between offices;
• Improve understanding and documentation of university processes;
• Providing a robust and comprehensive security system;
• Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of business processes which will enable the University to achieve its business and administrative objectives (survivability during budget cuts);
• Enforcing University policy and procedures.