Create unforgettable — and sustainable — experiences for your prospective students.
SIG delivers full-cycle Slate Admissions implementations grounded in a discovery process that aligns system design with enrollment strategy. We configure applications, portals, communications, and decision workflows to support the full student lifecycle — from prospect through enrollment — while ensuring solutions that can be maintained into the future.
Our goal is to understand your instance, listen to your needs, and provide custom solutions that evolve over time with your needs.
Slate Admissions Services For the Full Enrollment Lifecycle
SIG Portal Services
One-size-fits-all doesn't work in Portals. That's why SIG provides institutions with a three-tiered, scalable approach to building modern digital experiences within Slate. Each successive tier increases in sophistication, design investment, and process alignment as institutions progress through the service levels:
- SIG Standard Slate Portals offer a lower barrier for entry for institutions seeking a modern replacement for Slate's default Portal experience. These portals provide a clean, organized, and user-friendly experience that improves access to information utilizing existing and provided Slate functionality.
- SIG Strategy Slate Portals elevate the user experience through deeper branding, richer interactions, and more engaging presentation layers. The objective: deepened engagement and experiences for users and a differentiated Portal for institutions that feels like a natural extension of your digital brand.
- SIG Signature Slate Portals are designed around your institution's unique enrollment strategy, process architecture, and brand identity. Unlike previous Portal tiers which rely primarily upon reusable presentation frameworks and standardized data modeling patterns, SIG Signature Portals open the aperture for bespoke experiences informed by institutional goals and user journeys.
Business Process Analysis (BPA)
Every enduring Slate implementation starts with an honest conversation about how your office works. SIG’s BPA can help you simplify processes and strengthen outcomes. We facilitate collaborative workshops to assess admissions processes and identify opportunities to streamline operations within Slate.
The result is a more efficient operation and a stronger applicant experience.
Slate Integration & Data Strategy
SIG builds and manages integrations between Slate and the platforms your institution already runs: Banner, Colleague, Common App, FAFSA feeds, financial aid systems, LMS platforms, Salesforce, and middleware layers.
By prioritizing reliable data flow, clarity, and long-term maintainability across APIs, flat files, or middleware, we help you access data that you can confidently use to inform decisions.
Slate Admissions Optimization and Continuous Improvement
We help institutions refine and enhance their Slate environment over time by identifying opportunities for improved automation, reporting, and user experience, and implementing targeted configuration updates. We focus on practical, sustainable improvements that increase system value without adding complexity.
Enrollment Communications Strategy & Build
SIG designs and operationalizes compelling communications that guide students from inquiry to enrollment. We audit existing efforts, identify gaps, and build Slate-native campaigns that are personalized, measurable, and aligned to enrollment goals.
Our Enrollment Strategy and Institutional Strategy & Marketing teams lend their experience in admissions and expertise in brand articulation, writing, and design to ensure your campaigns are coherent with your brand and distinctive in tone, look, and feel.
Why Enrollment Teams Choose SIG for Slate
SIG Slate experts have lived institutional experience leading admissions operations and Slate teams at colleges and universities just like yours. That expertise informs the questions we ask, the workflows we build, and the training we deliver.
That’s why we design and deliver systems grounded in institutional reality that are stable at launch, usable by staff, and sustainable over time.
Every day is a chance to dismantle the status quo.
I almost look at SIG as our safety net. We have Ellucian implementing the software, we have our Broward team, but then we have SIG. If we’re going to stumble or fall, SIG is going to be there to help pick us up—because they’re in it with us for the long haul.
Liz Perrone, Implementation Director, Broward College