2013 Q1 Special Report: Smart Infrastructure
Discover what smart strategies, solutions and practices you can be implementing to prepare your IT infrastructure for the inevitable technological changes coming to your campus.
Faced with the double-edge sword of rising expectations and falling budgets,K-20 education institutions are looking for solutions that can help them do more with less – raise performance in the classroom, while at the same time using fewer resources. In between this rock and hard place lies the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that manages finances, purchasing, budgeting, HR and payroll. This Center for Digital Education issue brief discusses how ERP systems help schools carry out their mission – education students. It helps institutions understand and overcome the typical challenges faced when implementing ERP systems, so that they can maximize the benefits such as speeding up administrative processes, streamlining day-to-day operations and reducing time spent on IT maintenance.