Case Study: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business achieves cloud modernization and increased productivity with Protech Associates (Dynamics 365 AMS)

AACSB Future-Proofs Association Management with Protech and Dynamics 365

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a global accrediting and membership organization serving more than 1,900 member organizations and over five million students, faced growing complexity from disparate, heavily customized association management systems that were inefficient, error-prone and hard to scale. To modernize and reduce manual workarounds, AACSB engaged Protech Associates and adopted Protech AMS built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.

Protech Associates led a migration from an Azure IaaS-hosted Dynamics 365 instance to Microsoft’s SaaS Dynamics 365 via the FastTrack program, completing the project in seven months and moving millions of records to the cloud. The change produced measurable gains — positive ROI from licensing, management and IT-support savings; system edits now take hours instead of days; Power Automate flows handle nightly financial batches and remove expired promotions; and automated communications now send 5 million emails per year — with Protech Associates continuing as AACSB’s implementation and support partner.

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Ginger Ausloos

Vice President, Information Technology