The Foundation for a Connected Campus: Optimized PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Higher education institutions can reduce implementation costs by 59% and reduce the time-to-value from 18 to 8 months with the foundation for a connected campus offering.

Times are difficult for higher education. Uncertain budgets, shifting enrollment trends, increased competition for students, and the need to constantly adapt to changing and increasingly demanding regulatory requirements make it a struggle to keep pace. Yet, despite the uncertainty and conflicting priorities, your institution can only be successful if it can provide services and information conveniently, online, and in real-time to your students and prospective students. In response to the shifting education landscape, Oracle, now one with Sun, can offer institutions like yours a best-in-class, fully implemented student system at an economical fixed cost and significant savings.
The Foundation for a Connected Campus

The Foundation for a Connected Campus

Hardware, software, implementation and training at one low cost

Oracle is the only vendor to higher education that can make this complete offering to institutions that need a robust, modern architecture student system but dont have the resources to purchase, implement or support it. The foundation for a connected campus offering includes pre-loaded, pre-configured Sun hardware and storage, Oracles PeopleSoft Campus Solutions suite, implementation services, and Oracle University training for your staff at an affordable, discounted price for higher education institutions.*
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Pre-configured to leverage bestpractices of leading institutions Streamlined approach reduces risk

Campus Solutions is a comprehensive software suite for higher education. Architected as an open, standards-based system, Campus Solutions provides the next generation technology, giving you the flexibility to more easily adapt to changing needs and requirements. Students and prospects can access the system anytime, anywhere, from any device. And you can configure the online environment to provide information in a format that best meets the needs of your institution and constituents while gaining measurable efficiencies to reduce costs. With PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, information delivery is role-based, enabling students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors to access the information they need while protecting sensitive data. Campus Solutions is comprised of several modules including:

Academic advisement** Campus self-service Contributor Relations**

Financial aid Gradebook** Recruiting and admissions

Student administration Student financials Student records

* Oracle, PeopleSoft and Sun products are licensed separately. ** These PeopleSoft Campus Solutions products are optional either from an implementation services side or from both the implementation and the product cost.

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Campus Solutions on Sun

Rapid time-to-value Low risk Low cost Fixed price

PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions has been tested, tuned, and optimized on Suns Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) platform, and it leverages Suns chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based servers to provide scalable Web services. With exceptional RAS, the robust Sun PARC Enterprise server M-series systems provide the necessary compute resources for the PeopleSoft database. Sun Open Systems enable universities to better control capital and operating expenses while providing an optimized server and storage infrastructure to meet performance and scalability requirements. PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions leverages the power of Suns highly scalable, multiprocessor servers, helping universities optimize investments in IT infrastructure and resources as well as improve administration effectiveness. Sun servers, storage, and infrastructure software provide the foundation for a highly secure, scalable, and available campus management and administration system.
Better Together

Because Oracle and Sun are one, you can take advantage of this cost-effective approach that reduces cost, risk, and the time it takes to implement and train. Your institution can now leverage the PeopleSoft and Sun best practices and optimized environment that other institutions worldwide have pioneered and achieved over the past decade. The pre-configured architecture and fixed price of The Foundation for a Connected Campus not only reduces cost and risk, but also provides institutions with the inherent scalability and flexibility to adapt to changing demands that isnt possible with older, more limited student system solutions.

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