Seattle University recently decided to replace three separate, computerized student-information systems with a single, integrated system. The complexity of this decision was managed with a multicriteria method that was used to evaluate alternative systems. The method took into account the many and sometimes conflicting concerns of the people who would use whatever system was finally selected. Multicriteria analysis not only provided a way of managing a large amount of information, but apparently reduced people's resistance to change. The method and its application to this particular computer system selection decision is described, and a chart of criteria and ratings is provided. The method, which is simple in structure, is seen as adaptable to different kinds of decisions and decision-making processes encountered by institutional researchers. Contains 5 references. (Author/KM)