02/08/21 Thirty-three member institutions in the HESS Consortium have joined together to form the HESS Consortium ERP/SIS Collective — and selected the Oracle Cloud for Higher Education as the group's enterprise resource planning and student information system platform. The Higher Education Systems & Services (HESS) Consortium is a nonprofit, membership-run organization for private colleges and universities, focused on collectively lowering costs and increasing collaboration in the area of administrative systems and services. According to a news announcement, the group's technology choice was based on product functionality in Finance, Human Resources, Financial Aid and SIS; scalability; initial and long-term affordability; and the ability to create a support and resource network for participating institutions. In the works is a HESS Collective ASSIST Support Network, which will enable HESS member institutions to share technical and staff resources for planning, implementing and operating the Oracle Cloud solution.