Higher Education and K-12 School Districts

As many states across the U.S. face mounting budget deficits, public school systems and universities are struggling with significantly reduced budgets, as a result of decreased state funding. With reduced budgets and growing operating costs, school systems and institutions of higher education must find new ways to streamline resources, gain efficiencies, improve performance, and reduce and eliminate budget gaps. The ultimate goal is to divert resources away from sustaining bureaucracy and inject those funds back into the classroom.

Peak Performance Technologies has assisted both for-profit and non-profit clients in K-12 and higher education across the U.S. and around the world to implement long-term, sustainable and measurable change. Our professionals have helped management to transform the budgets and operations of some of the largest public school systems in the country, including Gwinnett County Public Schools, Detroit Public Schools, Los Angeles Public Schools, West Palm Public Schools and the New Orleans Public Schools. Some of our notable higher education clients have included Columbia University, New York University, University System of Georgia, Emory University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and dozens of others. Unlike other management and I/T consulting firms focused on education systems, Peak Performance Technologies’ professionals draw upon the firm’s operational heritage as a turnaround and performance improvement firm to place an emphasis on execution over analysis and results over recommendations.

Peak Performance Technologies provides a full complement of consulting services to support colleges and universities and K-12 school districts. This includes implementation of administrative systems that incorporate the unique business requirements of education institutions such as financial management, grants, capital projects, student information, textbook management, and state and federal reporting.

Our Capabilities:

Our consultants and project teams are uniquely qualified to help those customers that run both PeopleSoft and Banner applications, offering integration and data conversion services using expertise in both application areas. Our experienced resources bring us a level of credibility that differentiates our firm from the competition and we are able to work at the CIO level all the way down to the junior analyst and immediately prove ourselves as experts in our respective disciplines.

Peak Performance Technologies offers the following services for our PeopleSoft SunGard Banner and Datatel clients:

CIO Advisory
Program Management and Project Management
Platform Migrations and Upgrades

PeopleSoft to Banner migration
Banner to PeopleSoft migration

Implementations of full suites or individual applications
Data warehouse design and development
Business Intelligence
Identity Management
Long term support services
Strategic planning
Design and Architecture
Training
Application support

PeopleSoft Expertise:

Peak Performance Technologies employs some of the most seasoned functional and technical resources in the industry with expertise in all PeopleSoft products, including HCM, Financials, Supply Chain, CRM and Campus Solutions. Our Campus Solutions expertise covers the Admissions, Recruiting, Student Records, Academic Advising, Financial Aid, Student Financial, Campus Community, GradeBook, Contributor Relations, and Grants applications.

Banner Expertise:

Peak Performance Technologies has resources skilled in many of Sunguard’s Banner products including Financials, Student, Financial Aid and Advancement. Many of our resources are functional and technical in nature and have experience upgrading and supporting the Banner products in a remote service offering.

Unique Qualifications:

We are an enthusiastic and dedicated team of educational consultants who take a holistic approach to improving the entire educational experience. We understand the unique challenges private institutions face when attempting to make positive changes because we’ve lived life on your side of the desk. And with that insight, we can help make your institution better than it’s ever been.

Actual campus leadership experience.
Understanding and appreciation for the academic environment.
Experience in creating innovative revenue sources to fund programs and projects.
Knowledge of how to create joint ventures with business and government.
Extensive body of higher education best practices that can serve as models.
Network of national leaders who broaden Peak Performance Technologies’ experience and stand ready to assist their colleagues.