HESS Path to Cloud Based Modernization

Overview

This exclusive 60-minute webinar for Ellucian HESS customers explores the real challenges HESS institutions face as they consider a move to SaaS, informed by insights from a recent HESS design thinking workshop.

Rather than technology itself, institutions consistently identified people capacity, process complexity, data readiness, and organizational change management as the primary factors slowing progress. Many campuses are navigating lean teams, retiring institutional expertise, deeply customized legacy processes, and uncertainty around how to prepare data and build alignment for change.

Stormie Wells will unpack these themes and explain why successful modernization requires a capabilities-based mindset, a clear institutional “why,” and intentional readiness planning. The session will highlight how HESS institutions can reframe SaaS as a strategic transformation journey, not a software project, and take practical, manageable steps that build confidence, capacity, and momentum.

You will also hear directly from two HESS institutions that have made the move to SaaS and learn from their real-world experiences, lessons learned, and guidance for peers beginning their readiness journey.