Allegany College of Maryland Chooses Datatel for Combined Student and Institutional Advancement Solution

Overall Product Value and Experience in Higher Education Drives Decision
FAIRFAX, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Datatel, Inc. today announced that Allegany College of Maryland has selected
Datatel to create a Strategic Academic Enterprise™ that will consolidate
administrative and fundraising functions within a single solution. The College
has licensed Datatel Colleague®, which will replace a homegrown administration
system, and Colleague Advancement™, which will replace The Raiser`s Edge®
fundraising solution currently in use. The decision to partner with Datatel was
made after a two-year evaluation of competitive products.

"We chose Colleague and Colleague Advancement because the value versus cost was
unrivaled," said Tim Pelesky, associate dean of Information Technology at
Allegany College of Maryland. "We liked that Colleague is designed specifically
for higher education and has everything we need in one integrated solution.
Datatel also has a solid track record with community colleges in Maryland, which
is important to us because of our close collaboration with other two-year
colleges within the state."

Datatel Colleague is specifically designed to manage and improve departmental
workflows, business processes, productivity, and efficiency across the
institution. Colleague Advancement empowers institutional advancement
professionals and alumni officers to effectively manage campaign goals and donor
information while maximizing the benefits of their relationships with
constituents.

"With our legacy homegrown system, we spent much of our time developing the
system`s architecture. Now, with Colleague and Colleague Advancement, we`ll be
able to develop within the system using tools and templates that rely on
business rules," said Pelesky.

The College will also strengthen its community by allowing constituents to
access campus-wide information and resources using Datatel`s ActiveCampus®
Portal, a Web-based workgroup collaboration and social networking system. Built
on Microsoft SharePoint® technology, ActiveCampus Portal provides a single point
of access across the Strategic Academic Enterprise.

Datatel`s Strategic Academic Enterprise is a holistic approach that focuses on
and supports five cross-functional domains that are essential for achieving
institutional and student success: Strategic Enrollment Management, Strategic
Planning, Institutional Advancement and Marketing, Teaching and Learning, and
Performance and Operational Management. The Strategic Academic Enterprise
extends traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) models by viewing
administrative and academic functions as vital interdependent business processes
across the higher education environment.

About Datatel, Inc.

Datatel is a leading provider of technology solutions and professional business
services to higher education institutions throughout North America. Colleges,
universities, and technical schools of various sizes leverage Datatel's
comprehensive expertise to construct Strategic Academic Enterprises that ensure
student and institutional success. Serving five million students at more than
770 institutions, the company has focused on higher education for more than 30
years. Datatel is headquartered in Fairfax, Va. For more information, visit
http://www.datatel.com.

©2009 Datatel, Inc. All rights reserved. Datatel, Colleague, and Strategic
Academic Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Datatel, Inc. All
other names, products, and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective companies.

Datatel, Inc.
Peter Abzug, 703-259-2831
pda@datatel.com

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