Enterprise Architecture & Advisory
Map the student lifecycle as business capabilities, rationalize overlapping systems, and give leadership a technology roadmap tied to enrollment and retention strategy.
Explore architecture services →Industries · Higher Education
Higher education runs on connected capabilities. Most campuses run on disconnected systems.
Recruit, admit, enroll, teach, support, graduate, advance — one student lifecycle, spread across a dozen systems that don't agree with each other. The institutions that thrive through the enrollment cliff will be the ones whose data, teams, and technology finally connect.
The Problem
Your institution grew system by system. Nobody designed the whole.
The SIS says one enrollment number. Institutional Research says another. The board sees a third.
Admissions lives in the CRM. Advising lives in the LMS and spreadsheets. Nobody sees the whole student.
Banner, Colleague, or Workday at the core — and a decade of point-to-point integrations nobody documented.
Advancement can't see which alumni were engaged students, because those systems have never met.
FERPA governs the data, but no one can say where all the student data actually lives.
Leadership wants AI for retention and advising — on data that three offices define differently.
Sound familiar?
Typical Architecture
From system silos to a connected campus.
The target isn't a new system — it's a governed foundation underneath the systems you already run.
Recruit & Admit
Admissions CRM (Slate, Salesforce)
Enroll & Teach
SIS (Banner, Colleague, Workday Student) · LMS (Canvas, D2L)
Support & Retain
Advising, early alerts, student success platforms
Operate & Advance
Finance/HR ERP · Advancement (Raiser's Edge)
Integration Layer
Governed APIs and event-driven integration — replacing point-to-point interfaces
Governed Data Platform
One student record · trusted institutional reporting · the foundation for AI in retention, advising, and enrollment
Every layer maps to a business capability — not a product. That's what makes the architecture survive your next system replacement. See how capability-driven your institution is →
How We Help
Four ways campuses engage Splendor.
Application Modernization
Replace brittle portals and shadow databases with modern applications and governed APIs around your SIS — so registrar, advising, and IR stop re-keying data.
Explore modernization services →Cloud Modernization & Operations
Move aging on-premises infrastructure to a secure, cost-visible cloud foundation — with the governance FERPA and your auditors expect.
Explore cloud services →AI & Intelligent Automation
Retention analytics, advising copilots, and enrollment automation — deployed on governed student data, where the ROI is measurable and the risk is managed.
Explore AI services →Outcomes
What connected capabilities deliver on campus.
- One source of truth
- Executive visibility
- Reduced operating costs
- Better decisions
- AI readiness
- Improved customer experience
- Faster delivery
- Reduced technical debt
Ready to move?
Schedule a Strategy Session.
Tell us where your institution is stuck — enrollment numbers that never match, integrations nobody owns, AI ambitions without a data foundation. We'll bring an enterprise architect, not a sales deck.