Enterprise Engagement Platform

The vendor is required to provide enterprise engagement platform for include:
•    Enable user-friendly student and alumni networking 
•    Help students become exposed to potential career paths by connecting them with professionals in their fields of interest 
•    Strengthen long-term employer engagement by fostering alumni champions who can advocate for ducks within their organizations 
•    Make scholarship, experiential learning, mentorship, internship, job shadowing, informational interviews, and employment opportunities more accessible to all students 
•    Support student success and alumni engagement by integrating alumni voices and perspectives into curricular and co-curricular career education activities. 
•    Platform that can be leveraged by our new career communities to support our ducks as they progress along their career preparation journey at university
•    An opportunity to improve and increase student and alumni engagement.
- Requirement:
1. Analytics and reporting
•    Open API and ability to export data with data and reporting tool.
•    Provide delivered reports within the system for robust reporting functionality and analytics
•    Ability to build custom reports within the system
2. Directory search
•    Searchable database of alumni and students with robust search parameters
3. Facilitating connection
•    Algorithm-driven recommendation of mentors to mentees
•    ability to facilitate student-to-student connections and alum-to-alum connections, as well as Student-to-alum connections through messaging and chat functionality.
•    In-platform scheduling tool that maintains the privacy of the mentor contact information.
•    Ability to share professional and career opportunities such as events, internships, job openings, etc.
4. User experience
•    Ability to access all functionality within the system via a mobile application or responsive web-browser.
•    Ability to incorporate university design elements, including colors schemes, fonts, graphics, images, logos, etc.
5. Data sync with other platforms
•    Ability to integrate with campus platforms such as banner, salesforce, handshake, and other platforms.
6. Login and registration
•    Ability for professionals and students to register and provide information about their experience, interests, and career professional needs upon account creation.
•    Ability for university students and staff to use single-sign on (SSO) for authentication into the system.
•    Login integration with LinkedIn and other common credentials (e.g., google, Facebook, etc.) for professionals and alumni authentication.
7. Administration and account management
•    Robust administration tools including site management, customization of roles and permissions, customize fields, etc.
- Preferred goods or services
1. Directory search
•    Ability for users to set parameters around how, when, and about what they are willing to engage with other users (e.g., topics they are interested in discussing, times they can be contacted, ways to interact, etc.)
2. Facilitating connection
•    Functionality that supports administrator-led matching and structured mentoring programs.
•    Built-in guidance for students on professionalism, communication skills, interactions with professionals (e.g., templates for messaging a professional)
•    Ability to notify a user via email when they have received a message or chat within the system.
•    Ability to host video and virtual meetings within the platform.
•    Ability to segment professionals into groups and automatically limit or provide user access to specific groups of professionals based on specific criteria (e.g., a student pursuing a specific degree).
•    Group functionality that allows users with a common interest to interact as a group, connect, and share information in a dedicated space. 
3. User experience
•    Ability to customize individual instances.
•    Ability to import profile information from LinkedIn, handshake, and other platforms.
4. administration and account management
•    ability to delegate administration to department and school administrators.
•    ability to facilitate the automatic transition and communication of a student account to an alum account (including changing authentication methods – from SSO (as a prior student) to other authentication method (now as an alum)).
5. User engagement
•    Algorithm-driven and automated communications to increase user engagement
•    Assessment, evaluation and feedback tool that allows users to share their experiences with individuals through the platform as well as with the platform itself.
•    Ability to send email communications to defined audience segments.
•    Functionality that assists in incentivizing student engagement (e.g., gamification, badging, recognitions, accumulation of points, etc.).

- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Virtual Pre-Bid Meeting Date: August 20, 2025