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| SBCTC Executive Director Marty Brown signs Ciber contract. |
Campus Community,
As many of you know, the
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges has been in the process of
negotiating a contract with a vendor to create a project called ctcLink. This
project is the implementation of a new, integrated technology foundation that
will provide modern online services — anytime, anywhere — to all students,
faculty, and staff of Washington's Community and Technical
Colleges. Called Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP, ctcLink will
replace the CTCs aging legacy systems—such as the
current Financial Management System (FMS), Student Management System (SMS)
and Personnel/Payroll Management System (PPMS)—with a set of interconnected
software modules to help the CTC system streamline and standardize
the way colleges do business today.
Friday marked a major accomplishment and huge
next step for the ctcLink project. The State Board gave SBCTC Executive
Director Marty Brown approval to sign a contract with Ciber to be our “system
integration” partner. Ciber will work
with the ctcLink project team and colleges to replace the community and
technical college systems’ 30-year-old student information, finance and human
resource systems over the next 5 years to provide students, faculty and staff
24/7 access to a full range of online services and tools.
“Today we achieved a historic milestone,” said SBCTC
board chair Sharon Fairchild after the Friday morning meeting. “ctcLink will
propel the CTC system into the 21st century with a best-in-class information
system that will enhance services to students, align college and business
processes and enable innovation across the system’s 34 community and technical
colleges.”
The Board acknowledged and thanked SBCTC CIO Mike
Scroggins for his leadership and expressed its appreciation to the team
for their hard work and dedication through the years of evaluation, analysis,
planning and preparation to get us to this critical point.
“We’re excited and look forward with great
anticipation as we move from planning to implementation,” Fairchild said.
Both the ctcLink project team and the Ciber team are
eager to get started, so they aren’t wasting any time. Initial meetings to plan
project kickoff activities and next steps will begin in early February.
Stay tuned for more on the project as it progresses.
For more information on the
ctcLink project please visit their blog at: http://ctclink.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/ciber-gets-ctclink-contract/.
Tawny Dotson
ctcLink Communication Lead at Clover Park Technical College
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