Case Study: Stevenson University achieves faster Ellucian Colleague processes and a single source of truth with Informer by Entrinsik

Stevenson University Uses Informer to Accelerate Ellucian Colleague Processes

Stevenson University, a private institution of about 3,600 students in Baltimore County, relied on Ellucian Colleague but faced a shrinking pool of Colleague programmers (losing over 50%) and inefficient, nonstandardized processes. Routine tasks—like producing financial aid award letters—could take three to six months, departments relied on conflicting reports, and the university urgently needed Covid‑19 monitoring and classroom-distribution reports.

Migrating to Informer 5 allowed Stevenson to consolidate many reports into a single Dataset, automate Colleague’s manual processes, and empower 200+ users across campus. The change produced a single source of truth, enabled rapid COVID‑19 and surveillance reporting, cut financial aid letter development from months to days (36 hours to replicate), sped cross-database joins, automated recurring feeds (e.g., TIAA), and greatly reduced IT intervention.

Stevenson University

Jen Brechin

Senior Programmer Analyst