Education

Keep up with growing student populations, increased research activity, new mandates and the need to support new technology—which can exhaust your resources. With CA, you can achieve your academic mission through the realization of the power of IT.

Needs/Challenges

With the constant need for vigilance and the demand for services from both on and off campus, your institution is challenged to:

• Maintain access for traditional and non traditional academic environments
• Ensure ability of business units to make timely and effective decisions
• Map the environment to the academic mission
• Comply with Federal, State and institutional mandates
• Manage the cost of maintaining services with decreasing budget

Solution Value Statement

Are these issues new? Of course not. Anyone who has been involved in education knows that these issues have challenged institutions for some time.

Education has always struggled with its mandate of producing the most well rounded student populations that positively impact the strength and innovation of society within the limits of shrinking funding levels. To accomplish this goal, education institutions should focus on a few main objectives:

• Make sound, efficient decisions
• Effective and Efficient allocation of resources
• Adapt to a changing academic and political environment

So how can IT help you achive these objectives while becoming more effective and productive? CA is uniquely qualified to answer that question, with our new approach to eliminating the barriers that prevent IT from functioning as a true partner within your institution. We call it Enterprise IT Management (EITM) and it is our vision for consolidating your control, giving you visibility and helping you achieve that elusive objective: consistent, flexible alignment between your IT organization and your academic mission.

Why CA?

• Make IT management more process- and student-centric
• Gain the insight you need to make smart investment prioritization and tradeoff decisions
• Enable technology, processes and people to work in sync
• Add new capabilities as you need them while protecting your existing investments
• Transcend day-to-day demands and assume a strategic academic focus