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What Is Graduway?

Graduway provides institutions with a branded and exclusive platform to engage with alumni online. Our platform builds your alumni community and drives Alumni Engagement by offering a network that's "Willing to Help". The platform is available on every device, everywhere, and it delivers personal and professional value to your alumni community. As your alumni become members of the network, Graduway enables ongoing engagement through knowledge sharing, mentoring, professional guidance and more.

Who Uses Graduway?

Alumni Engagement and Career Services teams within higher education institutions and K-12/independent schools.

Graduway Software - An interactive, personalized feed, designed with the user in mind. Engage your alumni with automated widgets for mentoring matches, suggested connections, donation requests and more.
Graduway Software - All your alumni in one place - whether looking to connect with an old classmate or looking for professional advice, the directory makes your network reachable at the click of a button.
Graduway Software - Graduway combines technology and big data to empower schools to build mentor-mentee relationships in the thousands through automatic matching processes based on data such as mentors’ industry, location, position, capacity to mentor and responsiveness.
Graduway Software - Groups are an easy way to give your platform users an exclusive space to network with others in your community and to share dedicated and relevant content.
Graduway Software - All the data you need to track, measure and scale your engagement efforts. Use data to focus your efforts and show your impact.

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Reviews of Graduway

Average score

Overall
4.4
Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Service
4.6
Features
4.1
Value for Money
4.2

Reviews by company size (employees)

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  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
51%
4
41%
3
8%
Peter
Peter
President in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great Product -

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

I like the opportunity to have a specific portal for alumni to connect with the school specifically with the opportunity to connect with younger alumni and offer help and mentoring.

Cons:

I like the overall product, but would like new fatures and options to be offered quicker.

Gravyty Response

6 years ago

Dear Peter, thank you for your positive review. Graduway has started (September 2018) rolling out the next generation product. This product update has a completely new, even more intuitive, user interface and many new features. We look forward to having you on board the new platform soon!

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Graduway for Alumni Management

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: We are really really happy using the Graduway solution. They are a true solution ‘partner’ for our alumni engagement & fundraising needs. They really make it a focus to help us take full advantage of their feature rich solution. Graduways software has enabled us to boost our Alumni Services to a place we are proud of, and with all the tools available to us, integrated into our CRM and critical base platform

Pros:

Graduway offers a comprehensive integrated solution to make most of alumni management & engagement. Their platform is feature rich and they are always working to add new features. They have outstanding customer service.

Cons:

I cannot really think of things I do not like about this software. It’s a league above the other platforms in this space.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Good tool to boost alumni projects and engagement

3.0 6 years ago

Comments: Very good. It's clear that Graduway really seeks to provide value for money and never stops optimization. The migration to the new platform is quite delayed but looks promising. When problems with the previous customer success manager arose, Graduway reacted quickly and provided a new, very supportive and experienced customer success manager. The tries to sell additional tools was quite persistent at some stages, especially given that we're already a client. But overall Graduway does a great job and the strategic input by the CEO was also very helpful. The Global Leaders Summit is a great opportunity of further education, especially for small alumni teams. We've learned a lot about alumni engagement thanks to Graduway!

Pros:

It makes it easy for alumni to find each other and reconnect. An alumni newsletter can easily be set up and customized. Statistics are very helpful for benchmarking and ROI checks.

Cons:

Customization options are still quite reduced at some tools. If the platform isn't synched to school's database (in our case not possible as the database is tailormade), managing access and updates is quite time consuming.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Higher Education Software, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Super User Friendly, Needs Work on Admin Side

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: An attractive and easy to use product.

Pros:

I love how user friendly this product is. I rarely have questions on how to access and use the system and I feel users from a variety of generations are able to understand and effectively use the Graduway system.

Cons:

There a real lack of control over profiles on the admin side, and the mentorship features need a lot of work (though I hear there's an update that will improve this.) I wish there were more options in reporting. It's tedious to have to pull one huge file and then whittle it down to find the info you're looking for.

Bruno
Bruno
IT Service Engineer in Brazil
Verified LinkedIn User
Human Resources, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

One of the alternatives considered as my Alumni platform

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: When we went to implement the new platform of our Alumni, this was one of the 4 main alternatives considered, along with AlumnForce, AlmaShines and Hivebrite. However, it was not chosen, because although it is a good platform, it has less functionality than the competitors and has a relatively high cost.

Pros:

It has a very beautiful aesthetic, it is quite easy to use, for both administrators and users. Very low usage learning curve. Its use is pleasant. Excellent technical assistance. Good deployment cost. The [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] of the company that owns the product has a great vision on Alumni, and his book is the basis for the implementation of a successful Alumni.

Cons:

In the short term, the company provides a low cost of implementation, but in the long term, the platform's annual fee is high. It is a well-built product, but it lacks many features that already exist in competitors. The cost-effectiveness of competitors is much better.