Valley Consulting Group builds custom operational tools for higher education — from sponsored research dashboards to summer salary workflows to procurement reconciliation. Whatever your team is currently working around in a spreadsheet, we can probably build something better. Software that fits how you actually work.
The enterprise systems weren't built for how your team actually operates. Position management doesn't fit in Workday the way a dean's office needs it. Sponsored research dashboards don't come out of Cayuse the way a chair wants to see them. Summer salary caps live in a shared Excel file that breaks every summer.
So you bend your work to fit the software — and lose time, accuracy, and good people in the process.
We build the missing layer.
Enterprise systems force higher-ed teams to bend their workflows around the software. We do the opposite — we learn how you actually work, then build tools that fit. Every engagement starts with discovery: sitting with your team, understanding the mess, and mapping what you actually need. What we build is shaped by your reality, not a product roadmap.
We're not implementers who deliver and disappear. Once we build something, we stay close — on retainer, available for questions, and continuously improving the tools as your needs evolve. Most of our client relationships span years, not months. The software your team relies on every day should have someone who knows it as well as you do.
From sponsored research to faculty appointments to clinical hour tracking to capital project workflows, we know how universities actually run. We don't need to be taught the vocabulary — faculty lines, effort commitments, chair appointments, summer salary caps, indirect cost recovery, fiscal-year cycles. We've been inside the offices where this work happens.
If your team has a workflow that doesn't fit the software you've been given — we can probably help.
Every conversation starts the same way:
what's the thing your team is currently working around?