The Astadia Higher Ed Recruiting & Retention Platform for salesforce.com provides institutions the ability to attract prospective students and market the university’s education programs.  Once identified, prospective students can be qualified; application for admission processed; and, the admitted student/institution relationship nurtured seamlessly through the process resulting in continued higher retention yields.

Designed and configured to include recruiting, admissions and retention best practices for Higher Education, the platform is highly customizable therefore, enabling each institution the ability to reflect its unique processes. Having the ability to track and report each touch point with prospective students throughout the recruiting process, university recruiting and admissions offices have consistent information that will enhance their ability to yield significant and measurable results in retention with decreased costs. Since the solution is built using the salesforce.com Apex platform, opportunities to extend the platform to faculty, staff and student systems exist.

Features:

• Seamlessly track each touch point with students providing consistent information throughout the recruiting process
• Enables universities to capture applicant information directly from web forms
• Student records automatically created when a prospective student makes contact online with the University via automated data loads from web-to-lead forms. In addition, student records can be created through easy to navigate user forms

Higher Ed Recruiting & Retention Platform Resources:

• Salesforce.com AppExchange Listing
• Data Sheet
• Free 30-Day Customizable Trial of Higher Ed Recruiting & Retention Platform for salesforce.com

Pricing:

Free as configured.  The platform is highly customizable.  Contact us to discuss how we can fine tune the platform for your university or enable the platform features in your existing salesforce.com deployment.  The self-provisioned customizable trial is deployed utilizing the Enterprise Edition of salesforce.com.  For customers wanting alternate editions, please contact us to discuss your needs.

For more information regarding the Higher Ed Recruiting & Retention Platform, or to request a personalized demonstration, send email inquiries to higher_ed@astadia.com or contact us.