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Cloud for enterprises in tier-2 and tier-3 cities in India

Enterprises of all sizes have been reaping the benefits of cloud services for some time now. However, small and medium enterprises in tier-2 and tier-3 cities still are apprehensive of leveraging these services.

Cloud Services are ubiquitous now. It is not just an infrastructure anymore, nor does it host applications that are relevant only to large enterprises. An entire ecosystem has emerged on top of this platform. Applications with all sorts of capabilities have mushroomed, serving users at individual as well as enterprises of all sizes.

The Services offered by cloud has potential to transform enterprises, giving them a big leap in new world ruled by technology. In smaller cities and for small enterprises, these services are actually a boon as they make world class products available at affordable process in pay-as-you-go scheme. Here are some of the reasons enterprises in tier-2 and tier-3 cities should use cloud:

Serving you from your region: Cloud infrastructure is available readily in India now

Cost Effective: To build a modest infrastructure for an enterprise, large capital is needed to procure and deploy hardware. In addition, there are recurring costs to rent hosting providers, maintenance fee, etc. Cloud providers have processes set to procure and deploy hardware at scale and maintain the infrastructure. The infrastructure itself is shared by multiple clients and cost distributed to clients only based on their usage. Naturally, small and medium enterprises have a very minute footprint in this infrastructure and their corresponding cost of usage is also way less than what is needed for dedicated setup.

High Quality: Cloud Infrastructure Providers buy millions of dollars’ worth of equipment. There are only few vendors in the world who can fulfill such massive orders. Obviously, these are among the best hardware vendors in the world.

Similarly, to take care of this infrastructure, they hire world’s some of the most talented software and system engineers. Be assured of service quality – it is guaranteed going to be much better service than what your local small vendor can provide.

Fulfill Regulatory Requirements: with the advent of e-governance, government is bringing in regulations to require vendors to store data within the national boundaries. Cloud datacentres are now easily available within the country and you can cherry-pick where your resources are going to be provisioned, making it easy to adhere to Government Policies. This is very important, if you work in government sector.

Availability: Your data is available anywhere and anytime. Outages because of power unavailability is a thing of past.

Scalability: Cloud computing allows you to easily scale your infrastructure the way you want it – scale up, scale out, or you let cloud scale the infrastructure for your application based on usage. Remove barriers and let the business fly!

Disaster Recovery: Your apps and data are usually stored on multiple machines in multiple datacentres that are in different geographical region. Such geo-redundant infrastructure is a must for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

New Business Opportunities: Advanced features like archiving, Data Protection, ease of business for customers definitely give a competitive advantage. In fact, it may as well open new business opportunities or help manoeuvre your business into newer territories.

Teamwork: Easy access will always keep your team connected without delay in any work, which results in more connected and increased teamwork.

Like any other technologies, cloud computing too has its drawbacks. The biggest being change in processes and way of thinking, especially for business heads. However, when compared with potential gains, these are very minor and short-lived. Moving to cloud is inevitable for you and your business. You may be surprised to find how you are already using cloud services unknowingly. Adopt it wholeheartedly for a better future for your enterprise.

Salient Features of School Information System – Scholastic Records

Let’s look at the Salient Features – Scholastic Records provide. School Information System is an important part of any educational institute. Not all School Information Systems are the same. So here are the most important features that every School Information system must have.

1. Cloud based: System is hosted in secure cloud environment. This ensures scalability with growth in school (in terms of students or classes), as well as availability.

2. Web and Mobile friendly Interface: Rich responsive UI that respects all form factors – browser, tablets or mobile phones and it’s streamlined UI makes navigation and learning easy.

3. Authentication: Every user accessing the system will have to authenticate with pre-provisioned username and password.

4. Role Based Access Control: Users can perform only the actions as predefined for each role. Management can relax without worrying about unscrupulous and irresponsible handling of important data.

5. Self-Serve: Empower Institutions and related users (students and staff) with services that they can use at their pace and time. Some self-serve activities that can be performed are:

Institution Registration: Institutions can register easily any number of schools under their umbrella.
Online Applications: Students can apply for admissions online with any institution registered with the system. Students can choose which class they want to apply for, fill in all relevant information like last mark sheets, documents, personal information, etc.
Track Application Status: Students and staff can login into the system any time and track status of application.

6. Offer Management: Once a student makes it into merit list, student can be informed via SMS about admission offer. In addition, the staff can review applications, documents re-verification, fee collection, etc.

7. Taylor-Fit process to your needs: Customize multiple stages in the admission process workflow to meet different needs. Set admission eligibility criteria and seats for different courses, grades and institution.

8. Manage Seats and Quota: Configure system with number of seats available for each class/course. Also, configure government imposed quota restrictions for reservations and funding status.

9. Manage Classes, Courses, Fields: Configure which classes and courses does institution support. The courses can be further configured with field/branch, etc. The admission system can then be enabled for specific classes/courses/Fields.

10. Document Management:

Automatically generate list of documents required for admissions
Mark and keep track of which documents received from students
Optionally store soft copy of documents on server.

11. Audit: Changes in configuration are tracked by recording which user made the change and when. This is immensely helpful in enforcing accountability and maintaining transparency.

12. Merit Lists and Waiting List: Merit lists can be generated at a click of a button, along with waiting list. Standard algorithm for Maharashtra Board admissions available.

13. Powerful Reporting: Generate powerful reports with charts that provide insights on the number of prospective students applying for programs, seat allocation and utilization to make informed decisions.

Candidate Report
Download applications anytime in PDF
Generate admission merit lists in PDF
Generate admission waiting lists in PDF
Admitted student list for Education Officer

14. Analytics:

Chart demonstrating percentage secured by admitted students
Chart demonstrating percentage secured by all students who applied for admission

15. Geo-Redundant backups: All data is stored in multiple secure servers that are spread across geographical region. This immensely helps in recovering from natural disaster.

16. Notifications: Students receive SMS notifications on their cell phones every time application status changes.

If you are an education institute looking for the school information system to manage all the school or college activities, write us at info@pinnove.com to get Scholastic Records in your school or college.

Benefits of Using Online Admission Process: ‘Scholastic Records’

Online Admission brings better supremacy over the processes and its related functionality. Online Admissions provide support to the administration and admission pursuing candidates by providing them with a quick, transparent and easy way of keeping, managing records and use them for future reference and further operations.

No long queues to manage, no pre-and post-processing for orchestrating admission process. Let’s review a summary of benefits of such a system

Simple: Simplify processes by automating laborious work.
Scalable: Accept 10 admission forms or 10,000 admission forms, without having to worry.
Repeatable: Build once, use forever.
Reliable: Pre-canned algorithms run just the same way time and time again. No more fat-finger mistakes or manual errors.
Available: The system must be available at all times – day or night, weekday or weekend. Remove dependency on staff and clerks for mission critical activities.
Trustworthy: Untampered data in secure environment with sophisticated algorithms ensure trusted and clean output at all times.
Standardize: Standardize solution by aligning common pieces together, removing redundant steps in process and keeping ability to customize specific needs per school/class/course.
Secure: Nobody should be able to access and/or manipulate student data.
Privacy: Students and Parent perceive their data important and private. data is secure on server and needed only during verification. Thereafter, it can be locked and available only for administrators.
Accountable: changes to system configuration and data can be tracked to ensure accountability.
Distributed: Delegate work at right places and leverage across the system – having students fill up online form saves resources that school/college puts to enter data in excel or other systems. Make data available across the system – admissions, accounts, class rosters, etc.
Reporting: Attracting reporting capabilities to get better insights on quality and quantity of admissions that can be used for enhancements and improvements in institution.

Scholastic Records has been built keeping few things in mind, Imaging the ease when all applicants fill the applications online for standard X1, B.Sc. zoology, B. Com, etc. at the same time institution staff and management can easily monitor the process, generate merit lists at a click of a button and orchestrate admissions in a simple way.

For more information about how Scholastic Records can help you manage your online applications and simplify other related operations, visit the link: www.scholasticrecords.com