When commercial applications just don’t meet your needs, an open source solution from the Kuali Foundation may be a better fit for your college or university. IBM has the expertise to help you decide.
Colleges and universities have unique requirements for their financial systems. Fund accounting, financial reporting and financial management demand specific application requirements. Do you have the right systems in place? Are your workflows as efficient as they should be? How quickly can you comply with financial processing and reporting requirements? Is your Chart of Accounts flexible enough for your business needs?
The technology and application solution choices you make today are critical. Should you customize enterprise systems developed for the private sector? Should you combine applications from a number of small, niche developers? Do you need the flexibility and affordability of a Kuali Foundation open source solution? The first step is to decide which solution approach is best for you and then put a technology plan and roadmap in place to support your current and future needs.
IBM Global Business Services consultants can review and analyze your technology options and help you decide if an open source solution developed by the Kuali Foundation will work for your college or university. And if you choose the Kuali path, IBM can provide a combined implementation and integration solution methodology we call the Kuali OpenAdvantage. Our methodology provides an end-to-end solution that configures, implements and integrates Kuali modules with key systems to meet functional financial processing and reporting needs and support inter-unit financial collaboration.
At IBM, we are committed to the open source community in higher education and we encourage the collaborative spirit that universities bring to the Kuali Foundation. As a corporate affiliate, IBM has a long-term relationship with the foundation and the open source application community. We offer our higher education clients best-in-class services and solutions that bring lessons learned and advanced capabilities that we have developed in the commercial market to the university environment.
