Showcase Environments
- 25 Feb 2025
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Showcase Environments
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Showcase environments are pre-configured with a suite of Slate features, giving you hands-on experience with a fully built-out system.
You can use the Showcase database to:
Explore best practices: Learn first-hand how an optimized Slate database works
Train your team: Give staff working examples to experiment with
Test configurations: Try out new setups before committing changes to your production environment
Accelerate implementation: Quickly deploy functional elements using Suitcase rather than starting from scratch
A fully-featured Slate database for every lifecycle
When you provision a Showcase database, you can choose from among Admissions, Student Success, or Advancement, each one tailor-made for its respective lifecycle.
The Admissions Showcase database includes:
Application & review workflows: A complete application and review setup, demonstrating how admissions processes can be structured in Slate.
Forms & events: Ready-to-use inquiry forms, event registration templates, and automated follow-ups.
Automations & communications: Rules, queries, and Deliver campaigns showcasing effective outreach strategies.
Data management & reporting: Sample dashboards, reports, and structured data for tracking application trends and engagement.
User roles & permissions: A fully functional set of role-based permissions, demonstrating access control and workflow management.
Institution-specific examples: Configurations tailored to different institution types, including K-12, Community Colleges, Undergraduate, Graduate, and more, ensuring relevant and applicable use cases for various educational settings.
The Student Success Showcase database includes:
Case management workflows: A variety of workflows that move students through case management, conduct review, and other semi-automated processes
Advising forms & appointments: Ready-to-use advising forms, appointment sign-up templates, and automated follow-ups
Automations & communications: Rules, queries, and Deliver campaigns showcasing effective outreach strategies, including sample housing communications, financial aid alerts, and more
Reporting: Sample dashboards and reports that include advising snapshots, GPA distributions, and risk reports
Portals: Fully-featured sample microsites, including an advising calendar, coaches’ portal, and more
The Advancement Showcase database includes:
Portals: Pull from our library of pre-configured microsites, including Giving Day portals, donor profiles, and more.
Forms & events: Ready-to-use online giving forms, event registration templates, and automated follow-ups.
Data management & reporting: Sample dashboards, reports, and structured data for tracking giving trends and engagement.
Automations & communications: Rules, queries, and Deliver campaigns showcasing effective donor engagement strategies.
Copy-paste Showcase objects into your database with Suitcase
One of the best ways to make use of your Showcase environment is by using Suitcase, a data import tool, to copy objects from Showcase database to your test or production environment.
With Suitcase, you can:
Copy queries, reports, forms, and workflows to your own test or production databases
Adapt pre-built configurations to fit your specific needs
Save time by leveraging fully designed processes, instead of building from scratch
Accessing Showcase environments
You can provision a Showcase environment as one of the options in your Clean Slate environment slot.
📖 Further reading: Provision a Clean Slate environment
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