Company: Jenzabar, Boston, MA
Company Description: Created out of a passion for education and a vision for technology, Jenzabar offers disruptive, innovative software solutions and services that empower student success and help higher education institutions meet the demands of the modern student. Over 1,350 campuses harness Jenzabar solutions for improved performance across campus and a more personalized and connected experience.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Education Cloud-based Solution
 Nomination Title: Jenzabar's Jenzabar One
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Jenzabar One is the answer to the higher education technology tangle, allowing institutions to unite traditionally disparate systems on a single platform. As a unified cloud platform built exclusively for higher education institutions, Jenzabar One enables colleges and universities to eliminate data and departmental silos and usher in unparalleled collaboration for everyone on and off campus. It’s designed to improve experiences for all constituents and introduce opportunities for institutions to reduce costs, increase revenue, streamline operations, and maximize their use of technology.
Jenzabar One Drives Student Success
Designed with a mobile-first approach, Jenzabar One gives students a modernized, digital experience. Its easy-to-use interface and self-service capabilities allow students to easily register for courses, get answers to questions, submit schoolwork, calculate their GPAs, and seamlessly connect with faculty and staff. For institutions, Jenzabar One integrates communications and engagement capabilities to improve how they attract, enroll, engage, and retain more students through to graduation.
Jenzabar One Optimizes Institutional Operations
Jenzabar One enables staff to share information and improve visibility into student engagements throughout their lifecycles, thereby supporting more consistent and personalized experiences. In uniting departments on a single cloud platform, Jenzabar One eliminates data and communications silos and makes information sharing across campus easier. Jenzabar One also enables institutions to automate previously manual processes, allowing staff to perform tasks more efficiently, streamline operations, eliminate hours of tedious paperwork, and increase the time available to spend interfacing with students.
Jenzabar One Unburdens the Back Office
Jenzabar One’s HR and finance capabilities give institutions the means to alleviate staffing concerns and dramatically improve business processes. By enabling institutions to seamlessly integrate third-party applications and bridge information into one connected database, Jenzabar One powers staff to leverage real-time data to make informed, strategic decisions that accelerate innovation and growth. Through the cloud, Jenzabar One provides unparalleled agility, flexibility, and scalability so institutions can keep operations running smoothly despite unforeseen outages or even planned increases in traffic, such as during class registration periods. With dedicated servers, 24x7x365 human monitoring, endpoint detection and response, immutable backups, and more, Jenzabar One delivers greater security and peace of mind.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
Jenzabar One was released in 2018. In 2021, Jenzabar One began its evolution into a modern, unified cloud platform.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Jenzabar One leads the market. 63 institutions selected Jenzabar One in 2022, and 65 institutions selected Jenzabar One in 2021. Jenzabar Cloud has a 99% customer retention rate.
To put these numbers into context, for the past three years, Jenzabar’s student information system has been the most-selected solution on the market. This year, Jenzabar One’s finance and HCM components were the most selected in the private, not-for-profit sector.
Here are a few things institutions accomplished with Jenzabar One:
- A university with 3,800 students improved conferral processing efficiency by 2900%, increased graduation by 5%, and increased freshman retention by 6%
- A college with 10,000 students experienced cost savings of $1,000,000.
- A tribal college with 500 students increased retention by 200%.
- A college with 700 students increased employee productivity by 15%.
- A college with 2,200 students increased campus visit requests by 3900% and improved student engagement by 20%.
- A college with 5,000 students across 21 campuses increased yield by 10%.
- A college with 1,000 students decreased its operating budget by 25%.
- A college with 6,400 students saw a 95% decrease in IT support calls.
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