Salesforce as a Student Information System
After Jenzabar: the student record on Salesforce.
Jenzabar institutions are usually small enough that everyone knows everyone, and large enough that the software has to keep up. On Salesforce there is one interface — the same record, the same screens, for the registrar, the aid office and the bursar, on whatever device is open in front of them.
Where things stand
The situation around Jenzabar.
Jenzabar’s product line was assembled by acquisition — CARS, Poise, Campus America and Quodata among them — and those systems are being consolidated into Jenzabar One. Institutions on the older lines are migrating either way; the question is where to.
What runs natively
Everything Jenzabar holds today, native.
The record of truth moves whole. In our deployments these run natively on Salesforce — configured on the platform, not built beside it.
- Registration
- Prerequisite enforcement, section capacity and waitlists.
- Grading
- Grade entry, grade rolls and grade-change workflow.
- GPA and academic standing
- Computed in the platform, not imported into it.
- Official transcripts
- Produced natively; delivered through your existing service.
- Course catalog and class scheduling
- Terms, sessions, sections, rooms and times.
- Degree audit
- Degree progress and what-if analysis.
- Transfer credit
- Articulation rules, not just stored evaluations.
- Student financials
- Fee assessment, accounts receivable, payments and refunds.
Financial aid stays in the system your aid office trusts — live integrations with PowerFAIDS, Regent and Campus Ivy tie aid status into the same student record. Reporting and compliance run natively, by jurisdiction.
What changes day to day
The work after the migration, not just the migration.
A replacement is judged on the years after go-live. Four things Jenzabar institutions tell us changed once the record was on a platform.
- One interface, everywhere
- The same record and the same screens for the registrar, the aid office and the bursar, in a browser, on whatever device is open. Nothing is available in one client and missing from another.
- The obvious things are simply there
- Waitlists, class scheduling, advising and payment gateways are part of the platform. The list of things your office works around because the system does not do them gets shorter rather than longer.
- Reporting your own staff build
- Reports are created and changed by the people who need them, against live data, with permissions applied from the record. No specialist tool, no export, no waiting.
- Updates do not undo your work
- The operating model lives in configuration, so a platform release has nothing bespoke to regress. Three releases a year arrive without a retesting project attached.
Ten months, typically — for institutions under 10,000 students.
Institution size drives the timeline, and larger or more structurally complex institutions take longer — we will tell you where you fall in the first conversation. For context, the industry norm for an SIS replacement is measured in years.
Common questions
Moving off Jenzabar.
We are on Jenzabar EX or CX. Does that change the migration?
Not materially. Those systems came into the Jenzabar line through acquisition and are being consolidated into Jenzabar One, so institutions on them are facing a migration either way. The mapping work differs by source system; the destination and the timeline do not.
Will staff work in a browser, or is there a desktop client too?
A browser, and only a browser. There is no desktop application holding functions the web version has not reached yet, and no need to teach people which tasks belong in which one. The same is true on a phone.
What happens to our InfoMaker reports?
They are rebuilt as native reports against live data. The ones worth keeping are usually fewer than expected — a large share of any legacy report library exists to reconcile systems that no longer need reconciling. That triage happens in the first phase, with your team deciding what still earns its place.
Do we get class waitlisting and a course scheduler natively?
Yes. Course catalog and class scheduling — terms, sessions, sections, rooms and times — and registration with prerequisite enforcement, capacity and waitlists all run natively, as does degree audit and transfer credit articulation.
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Your contract dates, your academic calendar, your integrations, whatever your registrar worries about most. A discovery call is a working conversation with people who have moved institutions onto Salesforce — we will tell you candidly whether this is a fit.