3. Describe How the investment:
• Supports one or more of the three institutional priorities.
This project will modernize CWU’s business practices, processes, and self-service capabilities. This will result in a better student experience by simplifying their interactions with the administrative systems and will lead to greater student retention through more accurate information and quicker responses to student needs.
• Mitigates liability.
The move to a cloud hosted system mitigates the risk of outages and our incapacity to quickly recover from a disaster. It also mitigates the risk of data loss from cyber-attacks that are increasing in frequency and complexity.
4. Over what time period would this investment be implemented?
The investment would be implemented over a 3-year time span. The first phase (move systems to the cloud) will take approximately 6 - 9 months. The second phase (assess vendor SaaS solutions) would take 4 - 6 months but could be run concurrently with phase 1. The third phase (implementation to SaaS) would take approximately 12 - 18 months.
5. Does this investment have a directly related revenue stream or cost savings? (For example, an investment in an instructional site would have a directly related revenue stream in the form of tuition or fees. Or an effort to replace all lightbulbs on campus with LED would have a directly related cost savings) There may be internal cost savings as we realign resources and staff to support this new cloud-based environment. Current Oracle and PeopleSoft licensing costs will also be diminished/eliminated, depending on the final solution.
6. If investment will require additional employees, please indicate quantity and type (faculty, admin, classified, student). If it will lead to fewer employees, please enter as a negative #
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