Technology Magazine March 2026 | Page 177

Graceland brought each to campus for reviews that pulled in people from across the institution – not just IT staff, but faculty, administrators and student services personnel who would live with the decision daily. The university needed a platform that could handle traditional campus students, online learners and adult continuing education programs through a single cloudnative system. Oracle Cloud won.
Graceland implements multiple Oracle Cloud pillars in first year Small private institutions lack the internal resources to execute transitions of this scale alone. Graceland turned to Drivestream for expertise, committing to a long-term partnership that goes beyond transactional support. Weekly check-ins track project progress and application management service tickets and Talia meets regularly with the Drivestream team to work through overall project health. Data migration from systems more than 25 years old involves decades of records, reconciling inconsistencies and mapping old structures to new ones.
Business processes that evolved organically need to be formalised and sometimes redesigned entirely.
“ We’ ve committed to a long-term partnership with Drivestream, and they’ ve been very collaborative,” Talia says. technologymagazine. com
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