EAB’s Edify Helps Oregon Tech’s Student-Centric Initiatives
Oregon Institute of Technology
About
Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) enrolls 5,325 students at multiple campuses throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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The Challenge
Oregon Tech’s administrative technology portfolio cost significant money and IT staff time to maintain and contributed to poor data accessibility. The institution is leanly staffed as a means of managing costs, so technology maintenance represented a significant burden. Frustrated with their reliance on a few monolithic platforms, Oregon Tech sought a solution that allowed for a more modular ecosystem with greater data accessibility and the ability to optimize data quality while minimizing maintenance needs.
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The Solution
The school partnered with Edify, EAB’s Education Data Platform in Spring 2020. Putting Edify at the center of their digital enterprise has allowed Oregon Tech to choose the best-fit, best-cost solutions for campus without being beholden to a single vendor.
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The Results
By shifting away from a single-vendor model, Oregon Tech can recapture and reallocate millions of dollars in IT spend toward high-priority student success initiatives across multiple years of partnership.
Impact Highlights
$115,000
Year-one savings from using Edify to support Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system replacements—all reallocated to high-priority student success initiatives30%
Reduction in spend on annual maintenance of HR and Payroll solutions$750K+
Anticipated IT spend reallocations over the next five years of the Edify partnershipBefore Edify: Oregon Tech’s Technology Ecosystem Revolved Around a Vendor
Monolithic Technologies Escalate in Cost as Their Value Degrades
Why do some legacy technologies pose such a burden?
- Platform updates eliminate or hinder essential function
- Outdated tech is unreliable and difficult to integrate with newer, better application
- Degrading performance contributes to increasing need for IT support
With Edify: Hub-and-Spoke Integration Offers Vendor Flexibility
Oregon Tech Unlocks Ecosystem Agility with Investments in Campus-Focused Data Management
How can an education data platform help?
- Integrate new and existing technologies more quickly, streamline data processes
- Report with consistent and validated data, aggregated from cross-campus source
- Innovate with next-generation tooling that keeps campus current with best practice
With Edify: Hub-and-Spoke Integration Offers Vendor Flexibility
Oregon Tech Unlocks Ecosystem Agility with Investments in Campus-Focused Data Management
