Problem
Jenzabar is dedicated to the success of its clients in higher education, supporting more than 1,300 campuses around the world with tailored student-information software and related services. From enrollment to graduation, Jenzabar helps to streamline student and university administration and finance. For large and small institutions, the growing cost and complexity of running an in-house IT infrastructure makes it an unwelcome distraction from the core business of education. Recognizing this, Jenzabar wanted to ease the pressure on its clients' technical resources, while at the same time helping institutions with legacy ERP struggling to meet growing student expectations.
To capitalize on this new opportunity, Jenzabar needed a flexible, robust, highly secure platform for delivering private software-as-a-service solutions to a growing number of clients. The international dimension was also important: Jenzabar wanted to cater to clients with specific compliance requirements regarding the location of data within national borders.
Gus Ortiz, Managed Services Program Manager at Jenzabar, explains: "As the business and our horizons grew, we wanted a scalable and reliable cloud platform that offered direct control over the computing, storage and network resources, so that we could respond rapidly to our hosted clients' needs. Without a standardized global platform for cloud services, we would not be able to scale the business to match our ambitions."
Suggest a cloud computing provider for this case (other than IBM) and a suitable subscription