CampusGroups vs EAB Navigate360

CampusGroups is a campus experience management platform for students, staff, alumni, and community partners. Institutions can manage student organization registrations and memberships, events, communications, and group websites. Event tools include a centralized calendar, registration, ticket sales, and attendance tracking. A branded campus app can bring together groups, events, messaging, push notifications, and campus resources. The product lists more than 30 modules, including surveys, approval workflows, budgeting, room reservations, analytics, reports, and career tools. Integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook/Office 365, Blackboard, EMS, 25Live, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Banner, and Colleague. Single sign-on options include CAS, LDAP, SAML, Active Directory Federation Services, and Shibboleth. Its API supports importing and updating members or users, creating and updating events, and RSS feeds for members and groups. The privacy statement describes secured servers, firewalls exposing only necessary services, and browser-to-server protocols such as TLS 1.2. CampusGroups launched in 2005 at New York University's Stern School of Business; its maker is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The service runs on web, Android, and iOS. Pricing is on request for a campus-wide platform.

EAB Navigate360 is a cloud-based higher education CRM for recruiting, retaining and engaging students and alumni across their time with an institution. Staff tools include student profiles, coordinated care, cases and referrals, alerts, messaging, two-way SMS, campaigns, appointments, events and faculty progress reports. Students can use an engagement hub on iPhone, Android or desktop for conversations, surveys, advising, career tools and self-reported concerns. Embedded AI can help staff with outreach, reports, meeting summaries and follow-up; student-facing AI answers questions and routes students to support around the clock. Reporting includes dashboards, query and visualization tools, scheduled reports, intervention and population analytics, predictive models and data exports. Connections include systems with standard connection points such as SIS, LMS, email, calendars and the Common App. Institutions can export data through APIs or regular bulk exports. EAB says the service is hosted on AWS and follows FERPA and GDPR practices and requirements. Partners receive a dedicated Strategic Leader, 24/7/365 technical support, implementation training, office hours and self-paced training modules. Pricing is on request and depends on institutional enrollment and technology scope.