Education

Educational institutions are governed by increasingly complex and intrusive regulations. Budgetary pressures have both driven mergers and prompted the creation of intra-institutional partnerships for teaching and research. Changing student demographics and expectations drive educational institutions to work even harder to deliver on their vision of seeing every student graduate with appropriate life skills while facing today’s economic, social and administrative pressures.

While these institutions typically maintain complex governance and administrative models, many of their essential operational needs, such as efficiency, competitiveness, productivity, visibility, and compliance, are similar to those of any other industry.

On the other hand, educational institutions currently require a range of specialized technologies to improve information dissemination, communication and collaboration beyond any other industry. They also face additional pressure from auditors and government regulations to implement document imaging and archiving processes. The challenge is to maintain, retrieve and purge massive documentation associated with current and former student records for several years, if not indefinitely. In addition to retention requirements, institutions also have to be concerned about disaster recovery strategies, the availability of files in the event of litigation, as well as, the security of privileged information.

SoftExpert’s scalable suite of applications helps educational institutions overcome economic, compliance and efficiency-related challenges by enhancing operational visibility, improving financial performance, reducing costs, and supporting strategic decision making. These efficiencies increase the institutions’ ability to focus on strategic goals designed to provide the best service to students.

The solution also allows for improved response efficiency with instant document access by digitally managing content (e.g., paper-based documents, digital documents, e-mails, faxes, reports, application files, electronic forms, Web content and multimedia files) and by automating and graphically tracking complex processes such as form submission and approval.

Users can also enforce compliance and reporting by controlling associated documents, automating retention schedules and simplifying the audit process in a secure centralized repository with teacher and student records that can be readily available to authorized users at any location.

SoftExpert solutions also help educators and administrators improve teaching and learning, and enhance student and teacher success by improving teacher recruiting, retention, and the development of highly qualified teachers and principals while ensuring meaningful professional development.

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