Built for the enterprise – and everyone
Cadence easily scales to deliver undeniable results for institutions and departments of all shapes and sizes.
Cadence allows staff to efficiently reach students and alumni in their preferred communication channel – texting. With time-saving features like campaigns, auto-responses, templates, and shared inboxes, your team can work smarter, not harder.
Cadence easily scales to deliver undeniable results for institutions and departments of all shapes and sizes.
Achieve campus wide engagement
Connect with prospective students
Increase retention with current students
Improve alumni relations, stewardship, and donations
Built 100% on the cloud, Cadence is easy to install, requires no additional IT investment, and is completely secure. Choose from multiple data integration options to ensure your information system is always up-to-date.
Allow multiple team members to manage a single texting account from a shared inbox, making campaigns more efficient and producing a better experience for your contacts.
Free up time for your staff by allowing them to send campaigns to groups of students, easily gain insight from clean metrics, and review reporting to constantly rate success.
Save staff time with smart messages. Cadence will interpret incoming texts, and respond automatically if the student’s intent is known with a high degree of certainty, while also notifying staff when a human needs to intervene.
Incorrect data is a drag on efficiency. Cadence automatically cleans up your phone number data, ensuring all your messages are delivered in a carrier-friendly manner.
Keep track of your team’s usage and performance in real time. With Cadence you can export activity of all incoming and outbound messages, opt-outs and opt-out preferences, undelivered messages, and unread messages.
Work smarter and plan ahead with your team. Utilize targeted campaigns that hit the right contacts at the right time, with the right message, all set to go up to 12 months in advance.
Cadence is backed by our Support team that delivers unparalleled, unlimited, and free personalized attention. We’re here to respond to your questions (quickly, we might add), offer proactive solutions, and help you look like a rockstar.
At Mongoose, your KPIs are our KPIs. That’s why with Cadence, you get a dedicated Client Success Lead to help your team master the platform, provide texting best practices, and consistently go the extra mile to achieve (or better yet, exceed) your goals.
Mongoose Cadence offers multiple data integration options that align with how your campus is already doing business.
All three approaches:
Cadence is incredibly quick and easy to implement on your campus. For a standard implementation using a virtual number and manual data imports, you can be up and running within three to four weeks — whether IT is involved or not.
Specific timelines will vary by campus based on various factors. For reference, a typical implementation takes about five total hours over the course of up to five separate meetings. Each campus is assigned a dedicated Client Success Lead. For many campuses, texting is a new initiative - so we are there to help you. To be sure you are doing it properly.
Some institutions have longer implementations when the custom development via our API is required.
Cadence is architected with security and privacy as highest priorities. Access to production software systems, databases, hosting environments, and infrastructure is strictly controlled, with permission granted for a few select individuals. Access and changes are audited and monitored, and access is only permitted for when necessary for operations.
Mongoose is fully compliant with the guidance and regulations put forth by FERPA and the EU GDPR regulations.
Keeping with the guiding principles of data privacy and transparency, we:
Our client institutions maintain 100% ownership and are in full control of their student data at all times. Our clients’ data is strictly confidential and we shall not disclose, reproduce, copy, publish, distribute, or use for any purpose other than allowing client access to our platform and provided services covered under our license agreements. Upon termination of agreements (or upon request), Mongoose agrees to export and/or permanently destroy any requested data as well as provide written confirmation of disposal.
Full details are provided in our privacy and compliance documentation.
Mongoose utilizes an Employee Acceptable Use of Technology Policy. Mongoose enforces strict control over our employees’ access to your data and we are committed to ensuring that client data is not seen by anyone who should not have access to it. The control and ownership of customer data always remain in the hands of the institution. Data will be permanently destroyed no later than 30 days after a customer’s request or the termination of our relationship.
Mongoose agrees never to provide, sell, share, or otherwise expose client data to a third party, except in the situation where we have enlisted additional service providers to supply required functionality for Mongoose software and services.
The applications in the Mongoose suite of software have been written with an awareness of current web application security risks (following OWASP guidelines). The tools/frameworks have been selected for their ability to provide protection at a base level; making protection the standard during development, rather than an afterthought.
We employ strong password hashing, utilizing the PBKDF2 function with large unique salt values and a high iteration count - and also prevent users from choosing commonly used passwords, with a goal of making a brute force attack extraordinarily difficult.
Mongoose maintains a policy of least privilege when access to customer data, and production software systems are concerned. All such accesses are logged for audit purposes. All transport security is secured over HTTPS with a valid certificate and server configuration that is kept up to date and does not support any obsolete or insecure protocols or ciphers. Data is also encrypted at rest.
With Cadence, there’s no software, hardware, or additional infrastructure for you to install, manage, or maintain. All our services are configured and hosted in a scalable and fault-tolerant environment.
Built-in redundancy within our primary hosting region, along with geographic replication to provide for both rapid failovers and for business continuity in the event of a disaster Microsoft Azure is the primary hosting environment, providing a high degree of physical, network, and application security – with security compliance, including ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 1, and SOC 2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are also utilized on a smaller scale, for specific services.
We also place high value on reliability and simplicity—in both user interfaces and the infrastructure that functions beneath the surface. We also listen to our clients and use their feedback to continuously improve our platform.
Mongoose software should be accessible to all of our users, both campus staff members and their students, regardless of disability or impairment. Providing excellent usability to all individuals is a core mission of our product development team.
We utilize the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 for our standards and set techniques for ensuring that our web-based software incorporates inclusive design and development practices and meets the accessibility needs for a broad range of individuals.
Our partners may sometimes request or refer to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for determining accessibility. We recognize the value of completing this level of disclosure, but we find that the WCAG standards and guidance are more appropriate as they comprehensively focus entirely on web-based software.
If any part of our software is found to be inaccessible or presents difficulties in use for any of our partners, we will work together with each institution to determine the nature and severity of the issue and develop a plan to resolve the issue in a satisfactory manner.
Campus staff users may interact with Cadence both via the web and a mobile application for Android and iOS (Apple) devices.
Utilizing the WCAG guidelines as outlined above, we’ve made an effort to ensure the web-based application is:
For users of our mobile applications, our application should work well in conjunction with the accessibility tools and features provided by the operating system software of the device. For more information, see Android or iOS (Apple).
If any part of the software is found to not meet those goals sufficiently, we work with the institution to determine the appropriate solution and implement it.
Currently, all student interaction related to Cadence occurs on the student’s mobile device in the form of text messages sent and received. The accessibility features provided by smartphones varies based on the manufacturer and operation system involved, but we have found that most modern smartphones provide sufficient accessibility features for their internal text messaging application.
For more information see the links above for accessibility features provided by both Android and iOS.
To report any accessibility issues found in our software, please contact support@mongooseresearch.com.
We've been able to meet prospective students where they are as opposed to sending yet another email that students won't read. We're able to build relationships faster than ever before because students know they have a real person on the other end of the line.
We love the ease of use, the sleek, modern feel, and the feedback and response that we receive from students via text compared to email and phone calls. We love everything about Cadence!
Implementing Cadence has allowed us to efficiently reach out and communicate with our students throughout their entire life-cycle; from recruitment through alumni.
The level of support and access we have to the Cadence team ensures that we stay on track and never feel alone in our efforts.
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