Cites ZogoTech's knowledge of Higher Education; product's ease of use
DALLAS, TX, April 16, 2007 -- ZogoTech, a leading provider of integrated Student Engagement
and Business Intelligence software for Higher Education, announced that Metropolitan Community College (MCC) has selected ZogoTech's Data Warehousing and Research Intelligence
solution.
MCC is one of the largest community colleges in the Midwest, serving
more than 46,000 students a year at five campuses across four
counties.
With a full data warehousing solution (from ETL to reporting), ZogoTech's
solution will help MCC get clean and consistent data from PeopleSoft to
its end users. The Research Intelligence module will help improve data
quality, ensure consistency, and empower users to run their own reports.
According to Dr. Don Doucette, Vice Chancellor of
Educational Services and Instructional Technology, "In order to be as good an
institution as we can be, especially in serving students, we need to have good
data to help us know when we are succeeding with our students. ZogoTech
will provide us with that."
One reason ZogoTech was chosen was the company's in-depth
knowledge of colleges and universities. According to Dr. Doucette, "We were impressed with
ZogoTech's knowledge of higher education. The product looked like it was
developed in an Institutional Research office."
Dr. Charles Van Middlesworth, District Director for Research, Evaluation and
Assessment highlighted the increased emphasis on
accountability: "Accountability requires the ability to collect, analyze
and report the results to program and institutional decision makers.
ZogoTech will enable MCC to accomplish these objectives with a consistency that
is not possible through other reporting software we have examined."
Mary Abraham, Institutional Researcher, mentioned
usability as a big factor: "We looked
at several solutions, but none provided the ease of use that ZogoTech's solution
had."
Success with the Research Intelligence module will help pave the way for
adoption of the other two modules: Student Engagement
and Executive Intelligence. The Student Engagement
module allows student services groups to better serve students
(through at-risk intervention), and record contact notes, while linking those
services to learning outcomes such as graduation, transfer, etc. The upcoming Executive Intelligence module will allow Presidents and VPs to
get high-level views of their institution through balanced scorecards and
dashboards influenced from Malcolm Baldrige criteria.
According to Michael Taft, President of ZogoTech, "This follows our
philosophy of creating long-term partnerships with colleges and universities to
help grow our solution. MCC has some very innovative ideas which
will help grow our solution in new ways and certainly will be of interest to
other schools as well."
About Metropolitan Community College
Metropolitan Community College has five
campuses–Blue River, Business & Technology, Longview, Maple Woods
and Penn Valley– located throughout Kansas City, Mo. Each year, MCC
serves over 46,000 students through its credit and non-credit
courses and business services.
About ZogoTech
The aims of ZogoTech are nothing short of revolutionizing the way that
educators and administrators use technology. ZogoTech's
Institutional Intelligence software has been built through partnerships
with institutions of higher education to deliver a solution that
precisely answers the data needs of executives, institutional
researchers, faculty and student services personnel. ZogoTech
brings an in-depth knowledge of higher education, superior customer
support, and software solutions highly-acclaimed for their usability.
See http://zogotech.com for more
information.
