Case Study: Virginia’s Community Colleges optimizes PeopleSoft operations with Sierra-Cedar

Virginia’s Community Colleges completes 15+ optimization projects with Sierra-Cedar

The Virginia's Community Colleges system faced a backlog of deferred optimization initiatives for its PeopleSoft operations across its 23 institutions. Sierra-Cedar was engaged to help tackle these challenges across the system's three PeopleSoft pillars.

Sierra-Cedar implemented a flexible solution using small, specialized teams to complete over 15 distinct projects over 18 months. They employed a pilot-then-scale approach and agile methodology, which modernized the user experience and automated manual processes. This resulted in zero budget overruns and significant efficiency gains, including saving hundreds of staff hours annually by automating a journal-posting process and reducing data inconsistencies by 97%. The project was so successful that the customer immediately funded an additional phase of work with Sierra-Cedar.

Virginia’s Community Colleges