Case Study: Foothill-De Anza Community College District achieves strategic IT transformation, business continuity, and greater agility with Ellucian Cloud

How the cloud transformed Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s IT department

Foothill-De Anza Community College District was struggling with an IT environment that consumed most staff time on maintenance, patching, hardware replacement and risk management, limiting its ability to act as a strategic partner for students and faculty. To address continuity, agility and operational burden the district turned to Ellucian, deploying Ellucian Cloud along with Ellucian Banner and Ellucian Ethos.

Ellucian moved the district’s mission-critical systems into a managed cloud ecosystem and assumed routine OS, database and application maintenance, which freed IT to focus on student- and faculty-facing projects, increased agility and elasticity, and stabilized change and patch management processes. As a result—per the district—business continuity was preserved during planned California power outages (systems were not impacted), operational risk was reduced, and the IT organization gained measurable time and capacity for strategic work thanks to Ellucian’s services.

Foothill-De Anza Community College District

Joe Moreau

Vice Chancellor Technology