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    Salesforce Education Cloud

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Higher Ed combines the Salesforce Lightning Experience with HEDA (Higher Ed Data Architecture), providing a cloud platform supporting student management and engagement, admissions and academics, and other higher ed administrative support functions.N/A

    Slate for Admissions

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/ASlate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to CRM, outreach and communications, travel management, online applications, online reading, student success and retention, and alumni and donor engagement.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Education CloudSlate for Admissions
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Education CloudSlate for Admissions
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Education Cloud
    Salesforce for Higher Ed is great against other CRMs that are just charging on a flat rate. This means you only pay for who uses the product which can be much cheaper. Salesforce is the industry standard for CRM's so you have that going for you and you can easily reach out to …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Salesforce Education CloudSlate for Admissions
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Salesforce Education Cloud and Slate for Admissions
    Feature
    Salesforce Education Cloud
    8.8
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Slate for Admissions
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    Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Registration Management8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Roster Management9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Customization6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student Data Security9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community Support8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Class Scheduling9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Support8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Education CloudSlate for Admissions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
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    Support Rating
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Education CloudSlate for Admissions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    It is most suited for those within the education industry. For students and staff in particular, the Education Cloud allows seamless connectivity between each person and helps students stay on task. It can be very overwhelming as a student to have so many responsibilities in different areas, so Salesforce does a great job of offering many features that ease this process.
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    Technolutions
    I would recommend Slate, by Technolutions for any higher education institution, big or small. Though there is a higher cost associated with Slate than most other options, it's well worth the price. The level of detail that you're able to gather, maintain, and query on within your student data is far beyond anything I've experienced with other systems. These insights help you pinpoint areas for action and improvement so that you can pivot when necessary, helping you reach your enrollment goals quicker and more efficiently.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Great use of integrating across all aspects of enrollment.
    • Easy to create tasks for counselors to remember to call prospective students and keep up to date on goals.
    • Reporting is fabulous inside of Salesforce.
    • All of the Apps in the App Exchange.
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    Technolutions
    • Managing contacts.
    • Smart communications (drip email campaigns).
    • Real-time data management.
    • End-to-end control of product (or instance of).
    • Allows for easy to implement segmentation via smart rules and queries (data sets).
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • It’s hard to run reports or create working “views” for Enrollment/Student Advisor teams that include both Leads and Contacts in the same report.
    • Some fields do not map from Lead to Contact object. When a student transitions from application to acceptance, some dropdown and fill-in fields completely disappear from the student’s page in Salesforce. Every version of Salesforce I’ve used has this problem.
    • Salesforce overall is clunky and confusing for the average user. We require thorough Salesforce training for new hires on all teams because it’s not user-friendly or obvious what to click on to achieve a specific task.
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    Technolutions
    • Being able to have students register at an event without needing a wifi network
    • Easier way to update records for individuals who move to a different organization
    • Being able to start an application first without needing to immediately set up a user name and password.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    It was really so easy to sign up and get going with the whole process
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    Technolutions
    It's incredibly usable and easy to figure out. It's modern and does exactly what we need for it to do
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    People will respond on time even though Salesforce is such a large organization. This also includes various methods of getting support beyond just calling - they have dedicated reps, chat, chatter, etc that all make the experience more pleasant.
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    Technolutions
    While I do wish they had actual representatives that we able to come to you for trainings for implementation and new users, I understand that a big draw is the money that is saved by instead investing in knowledgebase, which is it's online tutorials for different functions of Slate.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    I have not used similar products and I am new to this role. Salesforce has been very easy to learn and I appreciate the support and ability to access the platform when I need to. I was able to easily learn the program and become skilled in what I needed to do. It also made the transition to digital forms quite easy
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    Technolutions
    We had been on Recruitment Plus- it has been sunsetted, so we were forced to move. I also looked at Fire Engine Red. Slate seemed far and away the most robust CRM/Admissions solution.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Positive: Our entire company is more aligned because while still complying with FERPA, the right people have access to student records while also having the correct permissions.
    • Positive: we can integrate with our partners who also use Salesforce, while still complying with FERPA.
    • Negative: we've needed to hire a Salesforce Development team with multiple people to accurately customize the tool to work for us.
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    Technolutions
    • We aren't really a business, per se, but a nonprofit university. However, Slate[, by Technolutions] does allow us to easily sort applications into categories for different departments to review. And it provides a clear trail of who is looking at various documents when--and how long it takes to process them.
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    Screenshot of Admissions ConnectScreenshot of AdvancementScreenshot of K-12 Architecture KitScreenshot of Slack Courses ConsoleScreenshot of Student Success Hub