HESS Consortium Foundational Enterprise Systems Business Partners

HESS Product-focused Member Cohort Groups
The objective of these HESS Cohort Groups is to bring together our member institutions into community to work with their solution providers’ executives, collaborate and innovate on their specific enterprise administrative solution and its use. There are many advantages and possibilities evident through our member institutions working together to cooperate together to negotiate, collaborate and share resources to increase efficiencies & lower costs together in community.
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The relationship with our foundational enterprise software partners is pivotal to the success of our member institutions and to the HESS Consortium. Our cohort teams work with these companies to drive engagement with HESS member customers for discount pricing and pricing/support programs, facilitate communications, conduct regular cohort meetings, information posts on the HESS OLC and cohort listservs and coordinate other activities for collaboration among the members of these HESS cohort groups. The activities of our enterprise systems cohort groups work independently or in tandem with our contract partner and discount affiliate programs and are driven by our cohort leadership, the cohort members and the HESS Consortium.
Activities of our Foundational Enterprise Systems Cohorts
- Monthly or Quarterly Meetings– Monthly or Quarterly Meetings led by cohort chairs with members of the cohort that are based on topical presentations from member institutions and/or foundational partners
- Annual Cohort Meetings at the HESS National Conference– Cohort Groups meet in-person annually at the HESS Consortium National Conference coordinated and led by the cohort chairs with their members and foundational business partner executives that are focused on topics most important to the group. These topics might include (but are not limited to) product pricing, licensing, support and product functionality (current and future).
- Newsletter updates for cohort members – Cohort chairs work with their foundational partner liaisons on information releases, product/services updates and meeting schedules for the bi-monthly HESS Consortium Newsletters. This is done in an effort to keep cohort member institutions informed on any company-related information that could affect their services from their specific foundational partner of choice.
- Special gatherings – Foundational Business Partner Cohorts can have special gatherings at other national conferences and locations to network, discuss cohort product-related issues and best-practices. These can be led by the cohort chairs or led by cohort members in coordination with the cohort chairs.
Current HESS Cohort Leaders
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