PeopleGrove Alumni Success is a robust product, offering a variety of opportunities for alumni community members to network and engage (e.g., Groups, Discussion Boards, Live Chat, etc.). The data import process is particularly impressive as is the reporting tool within Explore Users. Within Alumni Success, administrators may merge accounts, add information to existing records, and delete accounts with ease.

PeopleGrove was able to help SJSU develop it's online mentoring platform SJSU² Mentoring & Meetups which has helped the university ensure that students are able to achieve career readiness and success through alumni connections. As PeopleGrove develops its product and services, it would help to continue engaging university partners in the development process . As PeopleGrove innovates, continuous communication and consultation about changes with partners would be helpful as there are some earlier features of the platform that are helpful to keep. Overall, the PeopleGrove team listens to feedback and works with their university partners to make sure that goals are achieved.

The most helpful thing about our Peoplegrove platform is the ease in which our constituents can connect with one another. Through this platform, we went from having to broker all student-alumni connections to giving our students the tool they need to make those connections themselves--on their schedule. And when we do still become involved in connecting them to one another, we can do so with certainty that our constituents on the platform will be responsive -- because it's a large part of why they joined! It's also provided a way in which our alumni can connect more organically with one another. I also like the back-end admin view which Peoplegrove has improved and continues to improve to make it ever-easier to view pending approval items, message and connection response rate, and community balance. The ability to easily "nudge" non-responders has increased the response rate. Additionally, Peoplegrove is continually innovating, building new features, and working to ensure the platform is as user friendly and dynamic as possible, while also focus on key areas of success for universities in enrollment management, retention, mentorships, and student success.