Case Study: Arizona Western College achieves scalable, secure, and cost‑effective cloud IT with Ellucian

Making technology efficient, scalable, and secure Arizona Western College Moves Business to the Cloud

Arizona Western College (AWC), a community college serving a primarily Hispanic, rural population with about 12,000 students, faced limited IT staff, aging infrastructure, security and disaster‑recovery risks, and frequent outages that hampered recruiting and retention. To modernize and scale its ERP and student systems, AWC partnered with Ellucian, continuing to use Colleague® by Ellucian and evaluating Ellucian Cloud Application Hosting Services to address cost, reliability, and talent gaps.

Ellucian migrated AWC’s applications and data to Ellucian Cloud Application Hosting Services and provided Ellucian Application Management Services (including Ellucian Recruiter™ SaaS), completing the transition in six months and moving the college from UniData toward SQL Server. With Ellucian managing hosting, backups, layered security, and 24/7 support, AWC reduced downtime, improved system reliability and scalability during peak enrollment, lowered total cost of ownership, and freed IT staff for strategic work—outcomes Ellucian reports typically deliver two to four times the value of each dollar spent.

Arizona Western College

Glenn E. Mayle

President