The Evans Consulting Group, Inc. (ECG) maintains strategic alliances with service groups to provide resources to institutions of higher education.  If you are interested in establishing a business alliance with us, click here for additional information.

Financial Aid TV

Financial Aid TV is a service of College Media Solutions, an independent publisher of turn-key digital solutions for educational institutions.

Since 2002, Financial Aid TV (FATV) has been helping hundreds of campuses and financial aid offices across the nation save money and time by reducing the influx of repetitive questions and increasing the effectiveness of their outreach and counseling programs.  With a library of over 1,000 videos covering financial aid, financial literacy, and dozens of other topics, including customizable content, FATV can help schools communicate essential information in a format that's convenient for students and staff alike.

Through our operational assessment services, ECG can help schools evaluate the benefits of FATV for their unique student population.  For more information about our alliance partnership with FATV and how it can help support your business needs, click here.

Presidium

Presidium pioneered Education Services Management (ESM) and provides outstanding support and services for postsecondary education.

ESM is a methodology for implementing a "service desk" strategy for education providers.  ESM unifies distributed service desks through process, infrastructure, and people across the many functions that students interact with each day - financial aid, bursar, registrar, IT, and other areas.  Over 650 colleges, universities, and institutions rely on Presidium to deliver 24/7 unified service desk solutions.

Together, ECG and Presidium can provide managed care solutions for a school's financial aid operations.  For more information about our alliance partnership with Presidium and how it can help support your business needs, click here.

Rackspace Managed Hosting ™

Founded in 1998, Rackspace is the fastest-growing managed hosting specialist in the world.  Thousands of customers have realized success because the company's approach is simple—build extensive expertise in managed hosting and stay focused on the customers.  Successful clients include Bluetooth, Firefly, and Motorola.  Rackspace offers a wide range of managed services with proactive service-level management, all based on the unique needs of each individual customer.

Rackspace offers system-level administration and support, comprehensive Internet infrastructure, and extensive services that relieve IT departments of many critical but costly responsibilities.  Their services typically include advanced monitoring, load balancing, elevated security, data storage, stress testing, and industry-leading technical expertise and content delivery.

ECG is able to provide implementation support for clients who choose to work with Rackspace, as well as design the workflow, policies, and procedures, and ensure compliance with federal and state financial aid requirements.  Additionally, ECG is able to include the assignment of a Local Area Network (LAN) Administrator or Systems Engineer to a client organization or a project.  This will ensure that there will be a primary contact for ongoing support needs to a client engagement.

For more information about our alliance partnership with Rackspace and how it can help support your business needs, click here.