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Customer Stories: Alliant International University
| Customer: | Alliant International University | | Industry: | Education | | | | | | Overview | | Company: | Alliant International University focuses on preparing students for professional careers in the applied social sciences. Alliant offers students a choice of six California campuses: Fresno, Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco. Alliant also includes a Mexico City Campus. Alliant Mexico is distinguished by being the only university in Mexico authorized by law to offer all of its programs in English. Alliant also runs pioneering programs for psychologists in Tokyo, Japan and attracts professionals from across the US to its on-line program in psychopharmacology
| | Business Need: | Alliant’s goal was to distinguish its university website as a successful marketing vehicle that better defines their image and culture as well as offer its students, faculty, and alumni a more personalized web experience. Another objective of the Alliant committee was to enhance its Enrollments Management process and ultimately increase the quantity and quality of the applicant pool. | | Solution: | Implemented WebSphere Portal with Web Content Management, custom java applications for student enrollment, Request for Information J2EE application, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Quickplace, Microsoft Exchange, CARS Unix application, DB2, Linux platform. | | Benefits: | Simplified systems; common data and knowledge store; reduced costs; enhanced ability to collaborate on shared projects | | | | Details | | Solution: | Utilizing content management and WebSphere Portal technology, Alliant enabled their admissions staff to target students with specific content using advanced personalization technology, and keep prospective students informed with news, information, surveys and targeted content. Alliant has a total of 4,000 registered users and approximately 30,000 hits per month | | Benefits: | Help in streamlining their recruiting efforts Significantly enhancing communications with prospective students using one-to-one marketing Allowing Alliant to target prospective students that are most important to enrollment objectives The solution integrates with existing student information system for a complete solution
| | Key Components: | student enrollment system campus news Exhcange e-mail and calendar student/faculty FAQ's faculty directory team workplaces web conferencing career services governance and planning details faculty handbooks, benefits, enrollments | | |
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