CUBE84 helps higher education institutions make the architecture, data, operating model, and Salesforce implementation work together, across recruitment, student success, academic operations, and advancement.
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Institutions rarely stall because a field cannot be configured. They stall when system boundaries, ownership, and real-world ways of working have not been settled.
“We bought Education Cloud months ago and it is still not live.”
“Two offices ran the same report and got different numbers.”
“It does what we asked for. It just is not what we needed.”
These can look like data-quality problems. Often, the underlying issue is architecture or governance. Cleaning records helps, but it does not settle ownership, define system boundaries, or decide what staff should do differently.
We organize the work around the decisions and capabilities an institution needs, not around a catalog of Salesforce features.
Where most engagements start. We baseline what you run today, map the integrations, and identify what to fix before implementation rather than during it. That includes the questions institutions tend to defer: what belongs in Salesforce, what stays in the SIS, and who owns the constituent record when three offices each think they do.
What we find sets the scope. One area done properly and a phased build across several are both normal outcomes of the same assessment.
What you end up with: a recommendation your leadership can act on, the reasoning behind it, and what would change it.
Start where the pressure is highest and the sponsorship is real. Prove value in one module, then extend the same foundation.
A practical first module when applications, yield, counselor productivity, or the prospect experience needs attention. It can cover inquiry capture, applications, review, transfer credit, territories, events, and yield activity. The integration design depends on how applications enter and when a prospect becomes an enrolled student.
Start here when enrollment has a clear sponsor and measurable goal.
Start here when retention is under pressure or advisors cannot see and act on risk early enough. Academic performance is not always the first sign of disengagement. Attendance, participation, LMS activity, and other signals can help surface risk earlier, but only when ownership and alert routing are clear.
Set the operating model before building alerts and caseloads.
Start here when participation is falling, gift officers lack trusted portfolio views, or the student-to-alum transition is broken. This can include constituent and donor relationships, gift processing, portfolios, campaigns, volunteer engagement, and corporate and foundation relations.
Decide if Salesforce replaces or links to the platform
These areas sit closest to SIS territory. They can bring course, registration, degree-planning, account, and payment context closer to the relationship record. The value depends on a written boundary between Education Cloud and the SIS. Decide which platform owns each process and data element before configuration begins, especially as Salesforce continues to expand next-generation SIS capabilities.
Start here after the SIS boundary and ownership are explicit.
Your teams work inside the system instead of exporting around it
A student who becomes a donor remains the same constituent
You can answer a constituent question without emailing three offices
The next module builds on the foundation instead of starting over
Your team can explain how the system works a year after we leave
The choices made before and around configuration determine whether the platform holds up after launch.
What belongs in Salesforce? What stays in the SIS? Where does the source of truth sit? Which processes should be preserved, and which should be rethought? We settle those questions early.
Years of process often form around the limits of existing systems. Education Cloud is an opportunity to question those assumptions rather than carry all of them forward.
The early constituent, engagement, and ownership decisions affect reporting, AI, future modules, and the cost of change in year three.
Recruiters, advisors, academic teams, advancement staff, students, and alums have different needs. We treat experience design and accessibility as core implementation work.
We bring the institutional context to ask the right questions and the platform depth to carry the answers through architecture, configuration, integration, and adoption.
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