Higher Education I.T. Services
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KTI supports the following Higher Education applications:
Banner
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Finance, Alumni, Student, Financial Aid, and Human Resources Applications...learn
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Campus Pipeline (Web Platform) -
Student, Human Resources, and Alumni
Applications...learn
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Microsoft Dynamics GP formally Great Plains -
Finance,
and Human Resources
Applications...learn
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PowerCampus -
Alumni,
and Student
Applications...learn
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PowerCampus IQ Web
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Student
Applications...learn
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PowerFaids -
Financial Aid
Applications...learn
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Blackbaud Raisers Edge -
Alumni
Applications...learn
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We
understand that your current budget may not allow you to invest in a total
system integration product such as SCT Banner. That’s why KTI provides
specialized support for a number of cost effective and affordable I.T.
software applications that work. Our technology solutions are designed to yield an awesome ROI for small to
midsize higher education institutions.
KTI is also an authorized
reseller and service provider for most major computer, and office equipment
manufacturers. We also have an in-house web development division. This allows
us the ability to successfully manage all of your I.T. software application,
web initiatives, and office equipment needs under one roof.
Please
review some of our Higher Education I.T. Solutions below:
<Software and Services by Challenge...learn
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<Accountability, Performance, and Outcomes...learn
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<Constituent Services...learn
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<Security, Privacy, and Protection of Personal Information...learn
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<Institutional Competitiveness...learn
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<Funding and Resource Allocation...learn
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<Products and Services...learn
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<Software and Support Services...learn
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<Systems Implementation and Integration...learn
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<Strategic Consulting...learn
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<Technology Management...learn
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Software and Services by
Challenge
At the heart of the Unified
Digital Campus is a focus on helping institutions address the key challenges
they face in the evolving climate of higher education.
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Accountability,
Performance, and Outcomes
Colleges and
universities realize improved performance and outcomes by drawing on the
unique combination of higher education, technology, and management skill KTI
offers. Through a unified approach to managing technology resources, data,
and process management, KTI helps decision makers maximize the value of
institutional information. Institutions use cross-organizational data
access, reporting, performance management, and decision support tools to
increase efficiency, support regulatory compliance requirements, and
document and improve learning
outcomes.
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Constituent Services
The Unified Digital Campus helps institutions meet
ever-increasing constituent expectations through personalization and
self-service technologies designed specifically for higher education, to
deliver anytime, anywhere service and access. KTI helps institutions build
stronger, more meaningful interpersonal relationships with constituents of
all types, while improving the quality of lifelong education experiences.
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Security, Privacy, and Protection of Personal Information
Information security and privacy are fast becoming issues of
concern for all constituents. Our Unified Digital Campus solutions reflect
our ongoing commitment to secure code development and to helping
institutions protect personally identifiable information. We are working
with clients on initiatives to help further ensure digital campus security
through identity and access management, enterprise architecture, and
strategic security planning services. Our solutions also help institutions
maintain compliance with security and privacy-related regulations such as
SEVIS, FERPA, and HIPAA.
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Institutional Competitiveness
As institutions face growing
competition from both traditional and non-traditional sectors, the Unified
Digital Campus helps institutions differentiate themselves through the
unique, high-quality, and personalized experiences they provide to
constituents. KTI solutions position colleges and universities to compete
more effectively for enrollment funding. Our solutions also enrich
institutional capacity to measure performance, build competitive advantage,
document outcomes, and continually improve the ability to compete.
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Funding and Resource Allocation
KTI offers solutions to enable
institutions to manage resources, streamline processes, boost productivity,
and broaden their reach—all in a cost-effective way. Through infrastructure
and integration technologies that connect existing campus systems into a
unified whole, the Unified Digital Campus also helps institutions extend the
value of existing investments, while positioning institutions for future
growth.
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Products and Services
To help colleges and
universities each realize the full promise of their unique Unified Digital
Campus, KTI offers an array of strategic services, systems integration, and
technology management services that work together and with other systems of
choice to achieve the digital campus outcomes that each customer seeks.
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Software and Support
Services
KTI offers a broad selection of
software solutions designed specifically for colleges and universities.
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Systems Implementation and Integration
Systems implementation and integration services from KTI help alleviate the
complexity and pressures associated with implementing and upgrading systems.
We can help your institution integrate information and applications from
virtually any source, whether you’re early in the stages of planning and
design, in the midst of implementing your digital campus, or looking for
ways to maximize your investment.
Our skilled consultants
specialize in implementing solutions and tying disparate systems together to
provide a unified solution. They work tirelessly to provide the right
combination of higher education expertise and technical know-how to make
your implementation a success.
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Strategic Consulting
Knowing how to approach your institution’s objectives can be your most
daunting task. KTI’s strategic consultants offer unparalleled guidance in
how to find the best way to reach your goals.
Our Strategic
Consulting Services help you think differently about how to advance the
levels of information and service that your institution provides to
students, staff, and faculty. We help you take a holistic look at your
institution's environment and then devise a plan to enable you to meet your
strategic objectives.
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Technology Management
Our Higher Education technology
management services help institutions better manage technology resources and
align IT strategy with institutional goals.
Using a
combination of on-campus and remote delivery models, we help our customers
improve institutional competitiveness while increasing the satisfaction of
students, staff, and faculty. We identify the right approach for each
customer based on their desired outcomes, and then assemble tailored
services such as on-campus leadership and management, IT planning services,
administrative technology services, academic technology services, help desk,
and other remote technical services.
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Banner
Banner is an
administrative software application developed specifically for higher
education institutions by Systems and Computer Technology Corporation (SCT).
Banner maintains student, alumni, financial and personnel data. It consists
of six integrated systems.
FINANCE
ALUMNI
DEVELOPMENT
STUDENT
FINANCIAL
AID
HUMAN
RESOURCES
GENERAL
The
systems are highly integrated because they all share a common database. This
common database is shared by everyone who uses Banner at the University,
which makes it easy to maintain records on someone who applies to the
University, becomes a student, graduates, and then becomes an alumnus.
Technically, data is not actually stored in Banner. Data is stored in a
powerful database called ORACLE. It would be difficult for a non-technical
user to directly add or retrieve data from the actual database. The Banner
software acts as an interface to the ORACLE database, making the job of
adding or retrieving data much easier. Banner provides the features and
processing capabilities needed for student information (admissions,
registration, etc.), alumni information (sponsor identification, campaign
management, etc.), personnel information (employee benefits,
salary/deduction history, etc.), financial aid information (needs analysis,
packaging, etc.) and finance information (general ledger, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, etc.).
Banner is made up of systems which in
turn are made up modules, each of which handle a major function. For
example, the Finance system modules include General Ledger, Stores
Inventory, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Budgeting, Accounts Receivable,
Fixed Assets, and Grants. The Human resource modules cover functions such as
Payroll, Benefits, Applicant Tracking, Position Control, and COBRA. Modules
for the Alumni system include Campaigns, and Gift and Pledge Processing.
Some of the Student system includes Admissions, Scheduling, Registration,
and Academic History.
Because of the common database, multiple
departments use the information entered into Banner. Other departments share
data, sometimes several years in the future. For example, a name change
would be reflected in the Student, Financial Aid, Human Resource, and Alumni
systems.
Though information on Banner is shared, many users are
allowed only to look up (query) specific information. When you perform a
query, you retrieve information from the database and display that
information on the screen. Banner has a variety of tools that let you search
by name and automatically retrieve associated information.
Banner
also has sophisticated security measures to make sure that only authorized
individuals have access to specific data.
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Campus Pipeline
Campus Pipeline is the Web platform of
choice at over 175 institutions. It improves efficiency, builds community,
and provides freedom of choice by integrating disparate systems and
applications into a unified whole. Campus Pipeline provides an institution's
constituents - students, faculty, administration, and alumni - with
centralized Web access to information, services, and communities.
Campus Pipeline incorporates three
critical elements needed to create and unify the digital campus:
1) Customized portals - a Web-based
interface that provides continuous access to an institution's information
and
resources.
2)
Proven integration infrastructure - the
underlying technology that unites disparate campus information systems into
a common, standards-based platform available through single sign-on.
3) Enterprise applications - a suite of
applications native to Campus Pipeline, including email, calendar, automated
course resources and targeted announcements.
Campus Pipeline helps
institutions
1) Extend the campus
experience and identify online
2) Distribute information to the right
students at the right time
3)
Simplify and extend communication beyond
the classroom
4)
Reduce time spent on administrative tasks
5) Build customizable, campus-wide
portals
6) Optimize IT resources with
enterprise-class integration tools
7) Preserve legacy systems while
supporting future growth
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Microsoft Dynamics GP
formally Great Plains
Gain full control of your organization’s
financial management, reporting, and regulatory compliance
Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft
Certified Partner solutions help you create and distribute relevant
financial reports and analyze financial data. And because Microsoft Dynamics
GP can integrate with current information technology (IT) systems, you can
connect payroll, human resources, and financial systems. Sharing data
enables you to enter information just once and then access it throughout the
school district’s departments, or make it available to funding sources,
educational authorities, and regulators outside of the organization.
Microsoft Dynamics GP gives you the
ability to focus on delivering valuable educational services to students and
communities because of the visibility and control of the financial
management aspects of your organization it allows, including enabling you
to:
1) Ease the pain of regulatory
compliance and financial reporting
2) Master payroll and human resources
challenges
3) Make student information more
transparent
4) Perform interfund accounting with ease
and accuracy
5) Save time and meet reporting
requirements with control account management
Ensure best budget utilization
with encumbrance management
Keep your focus on using budgets
effectively, rather than on tracking expenses and worrying whether you’ve
exceeded limits. With Microsoft Dynamics GP encumbrance management features,
educational organizations can proactively manage and adhere to budgets,
streamline period-end reporting, and monitor encumbrances from any point in
time. You’ll be able to:
1) Instantly alert users if budget
limits have been exceeded when purchase order line items are entered
2) Ensure funds are correctly allocated
by reserving encumbrances when purchase orders are first entered
3) Modify controls by entering tolerance
levels for a specified amount over the budget
4) Improve inquiry and reporting
efficiencies through integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP purchase order
processing functions
5) Track encumbrances on an annual,
period, or year-to-date level, with assurance that budget status information
is
up-to-date
Track and manage commitments
Track online purchase
requisitions as commitments with Microsoft Dynamics GP requisition
management functionality. Web-based capabilities give you the flexibility to
tighten budget controls without halting purchase order processes, meaning
you can:
1) Provide automatic alerts to users who generate and
authorize online requisitions when those requisitions exceed
budget tolerance levels
2) Reduce processing time between
submission and approval of online requisitions that fall within tolerance
levels
Administrate grants with excellent
accountability
Microsoft Dynamics GP grant management
functionality lets you track accurately the usage of grant funding and grant
costs. And, it can help ensure compliance with specific guidelines and
regulations, providing budget integrity for every dollar spent. Improved
reporting systems result in more accurate data provided to auditors and can
improve your ability to qualify for additional grant funding. With Microsoft
Dynamics GP, you’ll be able to:
1) Reduce manual entry and
reconciliation processes with automatic tracking of expenditures to specific
grants and
programs
2) Receive automatic warnings when you
exceed budgets or when transactions are allocated outside of grant
timelines
3) Streamline transaction entry and gain
flexibility with multiple distribution paths for a single transaction
4) Assign multiple projects to a grant or
multiple grants to a project
5) Accurately track costs for the entire
life cycle of a grant with centralized, easily accessible information
6) Validate transactions against budgets
on a period-by-period, grant-to-date, or grant life basis
7) Deliver up-to-date grant status
information with variance reports that span multiple fiscal periods
8) Create standard or specialized reports
that summarize information based on grant inception date or ending date
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PowerCAMPUS
With cost
constraints spreading throughout the world of higher education, implementing
quality administrative technology becomes essential in order to address the
need for improved efficiency in the face of reduced funding and staffing.
PowerCAMPUS is specifically designed
to meet the needs of smaller, more intimate schools. The tools and processes
within the system help streamline routine tasks, allowing them to be
performed in a fraction of the time. Coupled with increased self-service
functionality for faculty, students and alumni, PowerCAMPUS improves overall
customer service while reducing the demands on staff time. Rather than
struggling with basic office processes, your staff can focus their attention
on individual students and on maintaining that personal relationship so
essential to your institution's atmosphere.
PowerCAMPUS helps you to effectively compete in
today's marketplace.
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PowerCAMPUS IQ Web
IQ.Web offers students, faculty, administrators,
and other members of the institution's learning community secure, real-time
access via the internet to the information they need in an easy-to-use
format. Improved self-service through IQ.Web means that users no longer have
to stand in lines to obtain basic information or perform tasks like
registration. By doing so, IQ.Web also frees administrators to focus
on other tasks critical to institutional operations.
Other IQ.Web features
include:
1) Web registration and payment
2)
Online grade book and course manager
3) Online personal calendar and task
lists
4) Online advising and Academic Plans
5) Alumni services and online giving
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PowerFAIDS
Your financial aid
office will help your institution keep pace with the potential impact of a
changing economy with PowerFAIDS, the best-in-class PowerCAMPUS solution
from the College Board. This Microsoft Windows based software can integrate
with the various aid packages available from private organizations and the
Department of Education, creating a single source of up-to-date information
that staff members can use to assist both students and administrators. An
PowerCAMPUS wizard-assisted interface enables users to manage the transfer
of information to and from PowerFAIDS.
Additional features
include:
1) Dynamic application
tracking
2)
Student communications management
3) Loan management
4)
Automatic record creation and updates
5) Automatic creation of budgets
Integrations with the
PowerCAMPUS suite:
1) Automated
importing of student information into PowerFAIDS and PowerCAMPUS Academic
Records
2) Seamless importing of anticipated and
disbursed financial aid into PowerCAMPUS for student’s statements
3) Students have online access to
real-time award information
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Blackbaud Raisers Edge
In today’s
competitive fundraising climate, cultivating alumni support is critical in
supporting an ever-increasing number of students and programs. That’s
why the smartest colleges and universities rely on Blackbaud solutions to
help manage their online communities, fundraising and finances, and help
them better target their marketing efforts.
Blackbaud
solutions can help your college or university:
1) Engage
alumni for a lifetime with an interactive online community that reflects
alumni interests and your school
image
2) Grow
alumni giving over time by offering giving options designed for their
lifestyles, including online and recurring
donations
3) Involve alumni, parents, and the community in successful annual and
capital fundraising campaigns by managing all
the
details needed to maintain strong relationships
4) Conserve fundraising
resources by targeting individuals most likely and able to give
5) Save
time and money by accessing critical information and generating professional
reports in a matter of minutes
instead of days
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