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As a Foundational HESS Enterprise Software Partner<\/strong>, you must be one of the major software solution providers – Anthology, Ellucian, Jenzabar, Oracle or Workday<\/strong>. These partners have dedicated board cohort representatives, have a HESS user cohort with regular meetings and special sessions and activities at HESS national conferences. These companies also have dedicated discussion spaces on the HESS OLC as well as a user group listserv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no annual fee for being listed as a foundational enterprise software partner but all of these partners are encouraged to be engaged with their cohort groups and be presenters and sponsors for our conferences & events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Our HESS Consortium Business Partners & Business Affiliates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our HESS Consortium Business Partners and Business Affiliates are crucial to help educate, inform and provide the best technologies our national membership of private, non-profit colleges and universities. Our business partners are selected and invited by the HESS Consortium based on the references and recommendations of our members, extensive research, evaluated value and excellence in pricing. HESS business partners are done by invitation only and range from a number of product and service groups in consulting, hardware \/ peripherals, SaaS products as well as other technology related areas. We have three (3) levels of business relationships: HESS Consortium Foundational Enterprise Solution Partners, HESS \/ Coalition Contract Business Partners and HESS \/ Coalition Business Affiliates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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The full listing of HESS Business Partners and Affiliates information, contacts and discount information can be found on our HESS Online Leadership Community<\/a> (HESS OLC) closed social media site (member login required). A short list of these partners can be found here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Strategic Partnership with the Coalition for College Cost Savings for Private, Non-profit Colleges & Universities<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In 2022, a major new strategic partnership was formed with the Coalition for College Cost Savings<\/a> (the Coalition). This partnership is unique in that both the Coalition and the HESS Consortium serve the needs of only private, non-profit colleges and universities. This new collaboration brings more savings, collaboration, subject matter expertise to both of our organizations while focusing on the unique contract needs of private institutions nationwide.  HESS is proud of our new partnership with the Coalition and plans many new partnered contracts for our collective member institutions in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n