- ERP Implementation, Upgrade and Integration
Capability to provide either full lifecycle services or ad hoc problem solving for commercial-off-the-shelf, SaaS, or cloud based ERP systems to include initial implementation, upgrade management and all related services. MEEC institutions have ERPs from almost the full range of providers (Oracle, Ellucian, Jenzabar, Workday, Kuali among others) and in a variety of lifecycle stages. It is anticipated that respondents in this category would have significant bench strength to meet long term needs of major projects or specific skill sets for meeting specialized needs related to ERP. - Change Management/Strategic Planning
Services to include development of strategic plans on the institutional level, tactical business process analysis, proposals for process redesigns, communication, user acceptance, organizational transformation, structural reorganization. Ability to provide guidance and support from initial concept, proposal development, through to implementation and evaluation. - Technology Management
Includes services related to support of IT specific functions including technical architecture, strategic information system planning, project management, audit preparation and response, data base management, hardware configuration, software quality assurance, technical design and implementation. Ability to provide recommendations for operational improvement and performance management - Transition to Cloud Applications, Shared Services and Managed Services.
Provide decision support, institutional readiness assessment, guidance and transition assistance for movement of on-premise software to cloud environments. Provide professional services and/or support for hosting or managed services transitions and implementation tasks, including, but not limited to, providing the managed services and/or hosting services on an ongoing basis. Develop recommendations and tactical steps to implement shared services environments either on-premise or cloud based. - Analytics
Provide professional services for the development and or implementation of Analytics products, data analysis, business intelligence, reporting, KPIs, dashboards, predictive analytics, data warehouses and other statistical tools - Training
Ability to provide training programs for both ERP and ancillary software for either technical staff, functional users or both. Training may be on-premise, vendor site or virtual as needed by the buying organization.