The consultant should recommend that the school of engineering should have its own Salesforce environment as a Salesforce environment strategy for the school of engineering that is interested in Salesforce and there are several other Salesforce environments across the university with varying degrees of usage and configuration, the university is largely decentralized where schools operate independently of each other and often in silos, and there is high turnover in staff and leadership. A Salesforce environment is an instance of Salesforce that contains a set of data, metadata, features, or configurations. The school of engineering should have its own Salesforce environment as a Salesforce environment strategy for the school of engineering that is interested in Salesforce and there are several other Salesforce environments across the university with varying degrees of usage and configuration, the university is largely decentralized where schools operate independently of each other and often in silos, and there is high turnover in staff and leadership by having more control, flexibility, and autonomy over their own data, metadata, features, or configurations without being affected by or affecting other schools' environments. The university should not consolidate all of the Salesforce environments, the school of engineering should not initiate a Center of Excellence (CoE), or the school of engineering should not share an existing Salesforce environment with another school as a Salesforce environment strategy for the school of engineering that is interested in Salesforce and there are several other Salesforce environments across the university with varying degrees of usage and configuration, the university is largely decentralized where schools operate independently of each other and often in silos, and there is high turnover in staff and leadership. Reference:
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.environments.htm&type=5
https://www.salesforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Education_Cloud_COE_Guide.pdf