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What sets Watermark Faculty Success apart?
Watermark gives you a complete review workflow today and a clear, integrated path for tomorrow, with AI-powered data entry, native course evaluation integration, career path integration, all connected with one unified data model when you’re ready.
“The most helpful aspect of Watermark Faculty Success is that it gives the power to faculty members. [They] are able to showcase all of their accomplishments in one space. The input of this information can be used by countless processes on campus including for applying for sponsored projects, promotion and tenure, and other evaluative processes.”
— Laura G., Public 4-year institution with over 11,000 enrollment FTE
| Feature | Watermark Faculty Success | Interfolio |
| Faculty experience | Faculty-focused interface, refreshed to address feedback. Review packet submission is streamlined, clear and consistent, eliminating manual assembly and formatting complaints | Often clunky, outdated, and complex. Faculty frequently report slow load times, confusing navigation, a buggy CV builder and poor formatting |
| Process compliance | Configurable workflows with branching, step security, and automatic reminders to mirror and enforce your exact policies in one place, including for joint appointments | Rigid workflows; changing a reviewer requires manual, case-by-case updates rather than cascading changes |
| Scalable tools | Reusable templates, bulk scheduling and assignment tools, and reusable review forms make handling departmental nuances automatic and cycle setups manageable | Functions don’t scale, forcing users to manually create individual cases for each faculty member and update large numbers of “templates” to make changes |
| External reviewer management | Secure, direct-link external reviewer management built into the related review workflows. Nominations and submissions are tracked without requiring external accounts or manual email routing | High friction; external reviewers must create separate accounts, creating adoption barriers and security risks |
| Faculty lifecycle | Career path clarity for faculty and administrators; visual timelines of milestones, requirements, and progress | No faculty visibility into career paths or progress; administrator-focused only |
| Module integration | Integrated modules for activity tracking and career paths, faculty reviews, and web profiles seamlessly share faculty details to ensure consistency and efficiency | Rigid FAR-RPT integration only imports entire CVs, forcing manual curation and duplicate effort for targeted review requirements |
| Activity entry | Multi-modal and AI-powered to save time and effort | Review-based imports that can’t be easily repurposed; manual maintenance of ongoing activities |
| Customization | Highly flexible to meet institutional and discipline-specific needs simultaneously; customize reports to produce the precise outputs you need | Limited, inflexible; requires manual data compilation from multiple sources |
| Accreditation reporting | Fields and reports designed specifically to meet institutional and programmatic accreditor standards | Insufficient support for accreditation reporting; often requires manual compilation for data required |
| Student voices | Directly integrates with Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys to include results in faculty reporting and reviews automatically | Reliant on imports, not integrations |
| Customer service | Accurate assistance in under four hours by chat, email, and phone | Slow and lacking IT support |
| Innovation | Continuously innovates, including client ideas, to add value and reduce burden for faculty and administrators | Significant gaps between promises and delivered enhancements |
