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Why Australian Edtech is blooming?

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Australia is one of the countries that provide quality education while adopting new technologies at a pace. Australia is a desirable market for education because the country’s response to online learning was commendable at the time of the pandemic and was among the best in the world.

The nation for now is good at building education technology solutions. 

“Australia’s EdTech sector is growing at a staggering rate, it includes more than 9,500 primary and secondary schools and a total of 43 universities and various higher educational institutions.”  – Wikipedia

The Australian EdTech landscape is taking a curve driving innovation and adoption of beneficial technologies like ERP/SIS, AI, VI, and various others. It enables the overall education delivery with quality and relevance of education in the 21st century.

How is the Australian education sector growing by adopting EdTech?

Australia is one of the finest destinations for students from across the globe to attain good quality education. The current mechanism in the Australian education institutions is changing and taking a curve and adopting technologies that support the overall development of all the stakeholders and ultimately for the institution.

  • It helps in the professional development of all the stakeholders

With the expansion of education technology, institutions are moving towards adopting digital transformation with pace. Australian institutions are also adopting techniques that help faculty members, students, and other stakeholders. Adoption of the right technology can bring a paradigm shift in the education system. It can professionally help all the stakeholders and also the institutions in the best way.

  • The adoption of EdTech helped change the course evaluation process

By introducing technology in the education sector of Australia, institutions can fastly modify the ways by which course evaluations and program selection, and all other tasks can be delivered, collected, and analyzed. 

With the extensive use of technology, education leaders can quickly manage all their academic tasks in the institution.

  • ERP and SIS technologies enabled robust management

With various technologies, educational institutions are adopting technologies like ERP/SIS. It helps in managing all academic and administrative activities efficiently. It can manage admissions, programs and courses, enrollment, examination, and more operations. It initiates the development of all the stakeholders, bringing efficiency, and boosting ROI in the institution.

How can ERP/SIS technologies help Australian institutions implement EdTech?

According to The Pie News, the Australian education sector is growing fast. The country has a strong education system and is a center for the world to pursue good quality education. Technologies like ERP/SIS are the core and bring efficiency and boost development in the institutions.

Strategies for Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning System in Ghana’s Public Universities

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Educational institutions on a global scale are taking a major turn towards digital transformation and institutions are getting more systematic, aligned, and effective using technologies like ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning, SIS – Students Information System, and more. 

Ghana’s education system is also changing rapidly, and public institutions here are choosing ERP/SIS for overall management and growth. When it comes to the education ERP system, it’s often known as SIS (Student Information System).

If your institution is considering an ERP/SIS system as supportive software for managing all the academic & administrative tools, you are on the right track. 

An SIS system can efficiently help educational institutions by making all the academic and administrative solutions easier for all the stakeholders, like student management, and faculty management, and even helping parents with the best prospects. But with all these, Ghana’s universities must learn about strategies for implementing an ERP that will help the institution’s overall management. 

Strategies for Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning System

Choose the right ERP/SIS platform 

Multiple vendors provide ERP services to educational institutions globally. Institutions in Ghana must choose the right platform & vendor that can effectively provide all the needs and requirements. The right ERP system can help save time in institutional tasks, eliminate tonnes of paperwork, and collates everything in a central place accessible to all stakeholders, like principals, teaching, administrative staff, parents, students, and more. 

Smooth & clear communication between ERP vendors and administration 

Communication is considered one of the most vital parts of educational institutions. It needs to be effective in any form.

Various things need to be discussed while implementing an ERP system in your institution, so it is a must that the ERP vendor you choose must assign you a team that can communicate and connect with your administrators and faculty members. The ERP team should also understand your needs & requirements and explain all the functionalities and features like student management software, admission management, fee management, and any other that can help you in the long run. 

Analyze & research 

Institutions in Ghana are on an ultimate digital transformation journey, they need to analyze & perform proper research before implementing an education ERP/SIS system. You have to analyze & research each & everything that can become more efficient after ERP implementation. You can study details from your institutions like

  • Inquiry & admission 
  • Fee management and accounting operations 
  • Program & course management 
  • Examination management 
  • And a lot more… 

Understand the product from demonstration & templates 

An Education ERP can help educational institutions in the best prospects until and unless all the stakeholders here know the complete functionalities of the software being used. The ERP vendor you choose must provide you with a comprehensive demonstration & tour of the product along with customizable templates according to your needs. 

2-3 rounds of detailed product demonstration can help in the effective implementation of ERP concerning the needs & requirements of the institution.

Carefully manage the data migration 

While implementing a new and modern ERP, you must be exceptionally careful in transferring or migrating important data from a legacy or a manual system. Firstly you will need to differentiate and select your necessary data that needs to be migrated in any case, keeping aside the unnecessary information or data. 

While migrating the data, your staff and administrators need to be attentive along with the ERP migration team. To understand it better, let’s say, your institution owns data for 12K stakeholders. So this huge data will need to be migrated using some integrations like MS tools or any other tool. For this, it becomes too crucial that the ERP you choose must have all the capabilities to migrate the data along with having interoperability features with other systems. 

How does Academia ERP help Ghana Universities/Institutions?

Among n-numbers of ERP vendors across the world, Academia ERP stands out to be different and exceptionally helpful for educational institutions across the world. Looking into Ghana’s digital transformation journey, we are a part of various universities/institutions in Ghana. 

Being one of the core ERP presenters in the world, we follow an institution-centric approach that focuses on accomplishing the customizable needs of all stakeholders. We have a tremendous implementation process with a highly qualified team that supports all the pre-implementation & post-implementation processes. It also provides integration with all the pre-built connectors/plug-ins, Web services API, and integration platforms along with having a multi-center capability feature supporting multiple academy locations of an institution.  

Watch the video to check the reviews of one of our prestigious clients in Ghana:

Challenges and Supporting Factors in Adopting ERP in Higher Education Indonesia

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The education model of modern institutions in Indonesia is changing and moving towards automation and digital transformation. According to Wikipedia, the Indonesian education system is the fourth largest in the world with more than 50 million students, 3 million teachers, and 300,000 schools. Indonesian institutions need to choose and implement technologies like ERP that are directly associated with modern education and growth.

Higher education institutions in Indonesia are on the verge to opt for ERP systems for complete digital transformation, but institutions need to check the challenges & supporting factors in adopting ERP according to the Indonesian educational system. 

An ERP implementation can be one of the most intensive processes undertaken after considering Indonesia’s education ecosystem. 

Installing an ERP system changes the complete scenario for all stakeholders, so to make it positive the challenges need to be accomplished deliberately.

Challenges & their Supporting Factors in Implementing ERP 

1. Selection of the right ERP software 

Challenges

There are 2,316 higher education institutions (2,235 private), including 391 universities (345 private) in Indonesia. Higher education in Indonesia offers academic degrees, vocational degrees, and professional degrees.  

These institutions are on their way to opting for digital transformation and an ERP is one such solution. To choosing ERP, institutions are facing various confusion like selecting the ERP for some operations, avoiding systematic implementation process, and more.

Supporting Factor 

Indonesian institutions need to deep dive into research for finding the right ERP software. It is crucial to check all the necessary features, modules, and functionalities that your ERP provides. With all these, the ERP vendor organization you choose must provide you with efficient implementation, support, & pre & post-implementation process, maintenance & sprint updates. 

2. Proper communication between institutional authorities & ERP experts

Challenges

Effective communication is the key to success for any business. In educational institutions as well, it becomes necessary to have an effective chain of communication between all the stakeholders. 

After selecting an ERP system, institutions often find it difficult to connect with the ERP vendor due to various factors like language differences, unscheduled meetings, unskilled ERP managers for their institutions, and more. All these affect the entire implementation process of the ERP in your institution.

Supporting Factor 

For smooth implementation of an ERP, it is a must that institutions in Indonesia should check each and everything with the ERP they choose from the start. They can communicate and understand the product in the following manners:

  • Requesting at least 2-3 rounds of complete tour or demo of the product. 
  • Demanding a dedicated and skilled ERP expert for proper implementation of the ERP. 
  • Organizing internal sessions in your institute explaining the ERP and its features. 
  • Connecting with the ERP vendor team regularly for seamless relationships. 

3. System preparation according to the Indonesian education scenario 

Challenges

As discussed above, Indonesia includes more than 2000+ institutions. It includes institutions with academic degrees, vocational degrees, and professional degrees. In these different types of institutions, ERP vendors often get distracted and confused in choosing and accomplishing the needs in implementation. 

Supporting Factor 

An ERP is considered an end-to-end solution for educational institutions. The ERP you choose must provide you with all the features that can help in managing all the academic & administrative operations. 

For this, the system you choose must provide all the standard versions with a centralized server. The ERP experts should deal with all the necessary system preparation according to your institutional type, operations, activities, and regular tasks. 

4. An efficient deployment & training for all stakeholders 

Challenges 

After proper system preparation, institutions often face difficulties in managing the efficient deployment of the ERP and knowledge transferring to KT, as most of the ERP vendors do not always provide training to all the stakeholders for a better understanding of the product. 

Supporting Factor

As mentioned above, every institution has a different way of imparting education. The ERP system you choose must provide:

  • A Systematic Deployment 

After systematic preparation of ERP, institutions must opt for a consolidated deployment plan containing information on processes to be mapped to the designated modules. 

  • Training to Stakeholders 

An ERP system changes the complete operational activities of the institute. It makes all the stakeholders opt for an automated method, and it sometimes becomes difficult to go with the sudden transformation.

For this, higher authorities at the educational institution need to organize sessions with associated stakeholders for complete knowledge transfer and proper functioning in the institutions.

5. Regular Maintenance & Updates 

Challenges

After completing all the processes, an ERP system requires continuous maintenance & needs to be updated regularly. Institutions in their day-to-day tasks educational authorities often neglect or forget the regular maintenance & updates. 

Supporting Factor

After the completion of installation, we provide comprehensive support to the institute. A good ERP software provides institutions with raising queries related to the software, it also gets resolved as stipulated by a support team. It should also organize sessions to provide detailed sessions for sprint updates. 

Academia ERP: A perfect solution for Indonesian educational institutions 

Every country owns a different level of education ecosystem, with different types of programs & courses offered, different types of stakeholders’ behavior, and a lot more differentiated things. 

Keeping the aforementioned in view, Academia provides a comprehensive and customized ERP solution according to the needs of the institution. Currently, we are providing robust ERP solutions in more than 20 countries according to their customizable needs. 

With our several clients present in Indonesia, we provide the supporting factors & solutions to all the challenges that affect consistent ERP implementation. 

Want to know more? Request your demo now! 

Academia SIS by Serosoft Recognized Again in 2022 Gartner’s Market Guide for Higher Education

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“Academia SIS/ERP got featured in Gartner’s market guide 2022 for the 4th consecutive year. That puts us among the top education ERP leaders in the market.”

The educational institutions in the modern scenario are improving and attaining growth and achievements using modern-day technologies like Student Information System (SIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and more.

The SIS Market is bringing a range of solutions to higher education institutions. To accomplish its needs, educational institutions should choose solutions that can help ease all the academic & administrative operations and boost productivity growth and achievements.

There are multiple SIS vendors available as competitors who are providing services to higher education institutions across the world. To make it simpler for institutions, Gartner released a Market Guide for Higher Education Student Information Systems in which it recognized SIS vendors who are delivering excellence for institutions. 

Academia SIS got its place in the list for being one of the core representatives of SIS for higher education institutions across the world. This is the 4th time in a row, Academia got this recognition in Gartner’s market guide.

2019 – Market Guide for Higher Education Student Information Systems

2020 – Market Guide for K12 Student Information Systems

2021 – Market Guide for K12 Student Information Systems

2022 – Market Guide for Higher Education Student Information Systems

How did Academia SIS Achieve a Place on the List for the 4th time?

  • Regular Product Development & Enhancement

Academia SIS is providing the best services to educational institutions across the world. Being one of the best solutions for completing all the academic and administrative needs, we provide regular sprint updates. Our team also works on regular product development & enhancement that can help institutions in true aspects.

  • Customizable solutions for Institutions 

Helping more than 300+ institutions worldwide, we are providing customizable and end-to-end solutions after understanding institutional requirements. Having various modules, we have been providing customizations in different available modules like admission, fee, examination, and more according to stakeholders’ size and needs that can help in achieving growth and opportunities.

  • Right Proportion of Support in Pandemic to Institutions

The pandemic has affected various businesses, and education is one of them. Various institutions have chosen technologies like ERP, SIS, and more. Academia has also helped multiple institutions in the pandemic to get the right proportion of support in managing all the operations & tasks. It also helped different stakeholders in staying connected and communicating according to their needs from anywhere and anytime. 

  • Improvement in ROI 

Being a core presenter of automation in educational institutions, we focus on providing institutions with solutions that can help achieve high ROI and growth in all segments. It primarily focuses on reducing costs on various academic & administrative tasks like paper saving, human errors, chaos, confusion, and numerous other expenses, focusing on ROI improvement and productivity.

Why Should Your Institution Choose Academia SIS?

Academia SIS by Serosoft is present in 20 countries, and 300+ institutions, impacting the lives of 700,000 learners across the world. With this, we are on a mission to digitally transform 2000 educational institutions worldwide, providing greater learning & ease for students, higher productivity for faculty members, better decision-making for leadership, innovation & advancement for the education ecosystem, and a lot more.  

This recognition by Gartner helped us in getting motivation along with being more focused on our end goal. 

So, if you are interested in taking a test drive for our hero product Academia SIS, request your demo now!

Serosoft is again recognized as Growth Champion in India by The Economic Times

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

~ Nelson Mandela 

At Serosoft, we have taken this a step forward, here we believe, that:

 “Technology is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world of education.”

With the modernization of education, various technologies and tools are helping institutions attain digital transformation and ultimately growth in all prospects.

To this, Serosoft, with its flagship product Academia ERP/SIS, is one of the best education ERP companies and is the core of 300+ institutions in more than 20+ countries across the globe. With multiple modules to manage all the academic & administrative operations, we are recognized as one of the prime ERP/SIS providers in the world. 

Our latest accolades include recognition by the Economic Times in 2022 for being one of India’s Growth Champions. This is the 3rd time in a row that we appeared in this prestigious ranking of India’s Fastest Growing Companies across all sectors. 

Have a look at our recognitions by the Economic Times for the last three years:

  • India’s Growth Champion – 2022
  • India’s 19th Growth Champion – 2021
  • India’s 21st Growth Champion – 2020

This recognition puts Serosoft among the top fastest-growing companies and education ERP companies from all sectors. 

This kind of recognition helped us in achieving our mission to usher in an era of digital transformation across the education ecosystem. 

Have a look at the certificate here:

Why is Academia by Serosoft one of the best for modern educational institutions?

As mentioned above, Academia is helping various institutions bring differentiation in institutions. Thus making all the academic & administrative operations systematic & robust. 

Being a leading-edge solution for advanced universities, colleges, and schools, Academia automates its solutions. It is a comprehensive solution that streamlines every single task in the institution targeting greater efficiency, smooth leading, and control in every manner, being the backbone for institutions. 

So, are you excited to take a demo to drive our award-winning solution? If yes, request your demo now! 

Learn How Academia Support UK EdTech Business Sector

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The UK is known for its world-class education system. Students from across the world choose the UK for further education. The education institutions here focus on students’ cognitive, social, and emotional development with all the technologies that support EdTech and the advancement of education.

Technology in the UK has reached a different level, most institutions have opted for increased automation and reduced manual interventions, which boosts the enhanced growth and student satisfaction.

Digital transformation is the new future of the education sector, it is a must that institutions should opt for digital transformation embracing the right technology like an ERP/SIS. 

How is the EdTech market growing rapidly?

The UK is considered one of the most growing countries in the world. Looking upon the education ecosystem, institutions are continuously adopting new technologies that can help in making a powerful impact on EdTech. 

According to an anonymous source, the UK’s education sector will reach £35 billion in education exports by 2030.

“There are approximately 1,000 EdTech businesses in the UK, with an exciting range of cutting-edge solutions, but it is a must that institutions should choose a technology that can help in overall growth.”

–Education Technology.CO.UK

Another recent report by Robert Walters Group found that the UK attracts almost half of all EdTech investments coming into Europe. It accelerated even after the COVID-19 pandemic, as institutions here were at a continuous pace of adopting new learning experiences.

What is the role of ERP/SIS in the educational sector?

An ERP/SIS system is well advocated and demanded by educational institutions. It is playing a crucial role for institutions bringing automation and digital transformation. A robust SIS system can automate all the academic & administrative tasks in the institution. 

Being a conductive property, it can automate all the operations right from admission, fee, examination, library, hostel, and all other associated tasks. Using an SIS institution provides ample opportunities to streamline all the related activities, operations, and tasks. It provides real-time management leading to the development and overall achievement. 

Role of ERP/SIS for Educational Institutions:

  • Manages, stores, monitors, and provides real-time access to all the data & information of the institution. 
  • It provides integration with all the information systems across the institution making every operation aligned.
  • Using an SIS, institutions can improve and organize the portfolio & complete the lifecycle of faculty, students, and staff. 
  • It strengthens and streamlines internal and external communication and collaboration.
  • Boosts productivity and growth in all aspects. 

How does Academia ERP/SIS support the UK Business Sector?

Academia ERP/SIS provides comprehensive support to educational institutions across the globe. It follows global EdTech trends to encourage E-learning along with managing academic & administrative operations of the institutions. 

By adopting Academia ERP/SIS, educational institutions can get 3X benefits leading to growth, profitability, and productivity. Strengthening the education ecosystem, ultimately triggers the overall business sector in the country. 

Being one of the top EdTech companies in the UK, we strengthen educational institutions in the following aspects:

1. Emergence in the top educational institutions

Being a new-age learning solution, Academia ERP/SIS is serving in more than 20+ countries, 300+ institutions, and 700,000 learners across the world. With this, Academia has grabbed various awards and recognitions for providing seamless automation and digital transformation across the globe.

Being the right technological support for higher institutions can enhance and expand the learning, knowledge, and expertise of institutions along with bringing transparency, efficiency, and productivity. 

One of Our Happy Clients from UK 

CECOS College, London:

To download the complete case study, click here.

2. Contentment among stakeholders 

Effective communication in any educational institution is the most necessary element in evaluating success. Institutions must maintain a strong communication channel among all the stakeholders i.e., faculty members, admin, staff, students, and parents. 

Academia ERP/SIS provides an effective solution to bridge the gap between all the stakeholders, creating a chain among inter-departments or campuses. 

Using the Academia mobile application, faculty members, admin, students, and even parents can perform most of their tasks anywhere, anytime, along with keeping a connection with the desired stakeholders. It provides complete access to all the academic and administrative operations right from enquiry form filling, to admission, enrollment, fee submission, fee notification, fee auditing, assignment submission & checking, exam hall ticket generation, result declaration, and whatnot. 

Voice assistant and individual profiles according to the authority of each stakeholder make it exceptional and truly effective for anyone in the institution.

Multiple other features make Academia a true companion for stakeholders bringing a level of contentment.

Academia Mobile Screen Representation

 

Academia’s Complete Functionality for Stakeholders:

 

3. Boost in growth & profitability 

Being the first choice of educational institutions across the globe, we admire providing complete digital transformation to institutions managing and maintaining their overall academic and administrative tasks. Our motive involves not only providing effective operational growth but also productivity bringing high ROI. 

Ways Academia drives positive ROI for your institution:

  • Automates all the tasks & saves paper 
  • Removes manual intervention leading to time management 
  • Complete admission management saves processing costs and more 
  • Easy and transparent fee & payment processing removing errors and chaos
  • And a lot more…

How Academia is ahead of the competition?

Academia is on a mission to impact the lives of 2 million learners by 2030. For this, we strive to make digital transformation the core of educational institutions across the globe. To accomplish our goal, we have a dynamic team of erstwhile I-Bankers & US graduates. Our out-of-the-box and customized solutions are helping scores of institutions and corporations – globally – overcome their educational and learning challenges and to drive innovation. 

Being ahead of the normal ERP/SIS vendor curve, we have various awards & recognitions. Academia recently got recognized by Gartner in the Market Guide for Higher Education Student Information Systems in 2022. We got this recognition for the 4th time in a row. This recognition motivates us more to be the best being the center of digital transformation for institutions.

Along with this, our other recognitions include, Financial Times Rank Serosoft among 500 High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific in 2020 & 2021, Serosoft ranked as the Growth Champion in India by The Economic Times in 2020 & 2021, Deloitte Fast 50 Award 2018 & 2019, and a lot more. 

What’s Next?

As discussed above, the UK is the center of education for various students from all over the world. It is a must that institutions here automate their operations by choosing digital transformation.

Academia can be the best solution for you, request your demo now to know more features, benefits, and functionalities of Academia ERP/SIS for your institution. 

5 Reasons to go cashless in this academic season in your institution

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Collecting fees is one of the tedious yet crucial tasks for any educational institution. When performed manually, it involves a lot of time, effort, and workforce. Even after this, the process remains unmanaged. A long queue of students, huge data, and various files & documents make this process more confusing, error-filled, and chaotic. In this modern era, a fee management system can automate all this process cashless (online). 

Here are 4 reasons to go cashless this academic season in your institution:

  • Easier Mode of Payment 

Fee submission and collection are the most critical tasks in any educational entity. It needs to be effective in any terms. It is the right time for the institution to opt for technology or software that can make payment processing easier. Technologies like ERP/SIS provide a fee management system and complete online and cashless payment processing. It helps in making the complete process easier, systematic, and organized.

  • Accessible Record-Keeping 

With modernization, students and faculty members demand a quick response to any institutional operation. Gone are the days when you had to find any paper or document of a transaction from a room full of files and documents. Then time changed, and it became difficult to find and manage transactional data through multiple spreadsheets, documents, and tally devices. 

To this, it is a must that institutions opt for cashless transactions and automate complete processes using automation. It can not only help in managing the payment inward and outward techniques, but this also will help in the easy accessibility of data from a single software.

  • Remote Data Availability 

Students in today’s generation demand quick responses and easy-to-do things. By using cashless payments and transactions, institutions can provide remote data availability to students, faculty members, and higher authorities. A mobile application with all the features and functionalities to automate complete fees & payments can help in better ways. It can avail any stakeholder to connect and coordinate from anywhere and anytime. 

  • Convenience to Students/Parents

The new generation of students is happier going online for any operations. It provides them with more flexibility and ease of things. The online payment system in institutions allows parents to pay more securely and conveniently. A smartly chosen software or technology used for institutions even notify students and parents to pay fees before or on the due date. It also provides them with the on-time generation of the receipts and various benefits like this, it provides convenience to students and parents for fee submission and related tasks. 

  • Lower Risk

Cash payment in any business entity involves a lot of risks. In educational institutions, it involves a long chain of connections (inter-department and external department). After successful submission of the fee by the student, the accountant passes it to higher authorities involving 2-3 middlemen. This complete process brings various confusion, errors, chaos, and in some cases, loopholes.

To avoid this, modern educational institutions can adopt advanced tools like ERP/SIS, which also provides full automation to complete fee management operations, minimizing risks and creating transparency for complete transactions and processes. 

Why Use the Academia Fee Management System in Your Institution?

Fees & payments are considered the most essential tasks for any institution. The Academia fee & payment system provides all the related tasks like generating receipts, canceling the transaction, generating bills, creating receipts, and a lot more. 

It automates and streamlines all the processes of managing and filtering out department-wise data and generates impactful insights and reports that depict the exact count of fee collection from all the departments. 

Academia fee management system provides

  • Digital and remote account management
  • Effective management among internal and external departments 
  • Secure and transparent payments 

Benefits of Academia mobile application for fee management:

  • Enhanced interaction 
  • Effective administrative management 
  • 24/7 availability 
  • Instant updates 
  • Prior notifications to parents/students 

Conclusion

Cashless payments are the new needs of modern business entities. It is the right time for educational institutions to think and opt for a cashless mode of payments but with a strong base of managing operations. 

Let’s connect and discuss how a fee management system can strengthen administrative operations, accounting processes, staff management, and student ease & satisfaction in your institution. Request your demo now and one of the experts from our team will get back to you! 

Global Education Institutions – Why is it the high time to implement ERP?

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The use of technology is undoubtedly necessary for almost all sectors, and education is not an exception. Considering Covid’s impact, it is a crucial time for the digital transformation journey of educational institutions. Implementation of systems like ERP (Enterprise resource planning) is helping cores of institutions automate all the tasks and operations. 

According to Research And Markets,  the global education ERP market will reach $22.2 billion by 2026. Various advancements in information technology have equipped educational institutions with new innovative tools for handling their operations. Recent enhancements in information technology have equipped educational institutions with new innovative solutions for handling operations. 

Why is mid-2022 and 2023 the peak time for institutions to opt for an ERP?

The global pandemic pushed educational institutions to instantly shift gears, from adopting online learning patterns to managing complete student and faculty life cycles online. In this situation, institutions that have adopted intelligent software ERP have to accelerate growth and success in all diagonals managing efficient operations. 

Based on the current educational scenario, the educational ecosystem in the remaining 2022 and 2023 will be composed of three main models – centralized educational institutions, decentralized operations in institutions, and a hybrid learning approach. It is the right time for institutions around the globe to choose a well-integrated education ERP that can manage all the academic and administrative tasks for the growth and success of the institution. 

Why is it the right time for educational institutions across the globe to choose ERP?

The higher education ecosystem is growing exponentially. Various new institutions are being inaugurated and are on their way to achieving success using technological tools for automation. Along with it, several prestigious institutions are choosing automation and digital transformation, changing the traditional or manual form of working. It is also fair to say that higher education institutions have started utilizing technology improvements along with implementing ERP software to grow and achieve better results. 

Let’s have a look at the country-wise educational scenario – need & worth of ERP:

✅ India

According to Wikipedia, India has a publicly funded higher education system that is the third-largest in the world, next to the United States and China. Going deeper, India has a total of 1026 universities, including national and state universities. Having a huge ecosystem, institutions must choose modern techniques that can embed better learning, teaching, and of course, administration management.

“Energetic youth are the engines of development of a country; Their development should begin from their childhood.” – Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. 

As Indian education is taking a 360°curve, educational institutions must adopt technologies that can support the complete establishment of modern technology; an ERP can be the best one for this! 

✅ United States

The USA is considered home to the maximum number of international students. It provides a diverse range of courses for all study levels. There are nearly 4,500 higher education institutions in the US, including colleges and universities. As it is clear that the USA is always a step ahead in adopting technologies, there are still a few institutions that are using manual processes to run the institutions. 

Being a trendsetter of technologies in the world, it is a must that education institutions in the USA should choose a good ERP product to bring automation and digital transformation. 

✅ South Africa 

South Africa is also considered one of the best countries to get a quality education. This country owns reputed institutions, including universities, colleges and schools. Do you want to beat the competition and become one of the top universities in South Africa? If yes, then it is the right time to choose the best ERP system that can provide robust academic and administrative operations bringing complete automation and digital transformation to the institution.

Various institutions in Africa are growing and achieving opt for a good ERP system. Check now:

✅ Philippines

There were around 3.5 million students enrolled in higher education for the school year 2019-2020, an increase of approx 0.5 Million from the 2010-2011 student enrollment of 2.95 Million in the Philippines. Though every country has its education system, most nations would have a similar concept or equivalent qualification. The education system in the Philippines is different as it adopted a combination of influences from its colonial history. 

With the enhancing technology, institutions can find ways to simplify processes for students in all aspects bringing complete digitalization and automation to their institution. However, most of the institutions in the Philippines are on the way to opting for automation with technologies, as the education system here has been greatly influenced by the colonization of Malaysia, China, Spain, and America. 

✅ The United Kingdom

The UK is known for having one of the best education systems. According to a report by usnews.com, the UK is in 2nd position for best countries in education. It includes various prestigious universities, colleges, and schools. The best part of the education system of the UK is that most of the institutions are on the urge to opt for automation and digital transformation. 

To maintain the dignity of institutions in the country, institutions must implement a robust and feature-rich ERP. It can not only help in accomplishing all the goals and needs but will also help your institution to remain on the top just like the country’s dignity to be at the top of the education ecosystem.

✅ Indonesia 

The use of technology is enhancing in every sector and education is never an exception. Indonesia is a country that is evolving technologically with speed.

According to Unesco, Indonesia’s literacy rate is now high at around 95 percent. Its youth literacy rate is even more impressive at 99.67 percent.

To continue this, Indonesia utilizes the trend of having software and tools that can make the education ecosystem sharper, more efficient, and more effective. The year 2022-23 can be considered a revolutionizing year for adapting and implementing technologies like ERP, SIS, and LMS. A combination of these can not only help in the digital transformation of the education ecosystem but will also open gates for splendid growth and success for the institution. 

Institutions are implementing ERP to attain success and growth at the same time, check the case study now.

✅ Australia

The education ecosystem is enhancing with pace, and Australia is also becoming a place for education enhancement. The government of Australia is focusing on the digital education revolution program. It is the right time for institutions to choose a technology and implement ERP that can bring prosperity, productivity, and growth. 

According to Mckinsey and Company, Various automation technologies such as ERP, SIS, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced robotics, and more are already transforming Australian institutions, the economy, and the entire community. Software like ERP/SIS is enormously changing and restoring the Australian economy, helping institutions manage academic and administrative tasks. 

✅ Canada 

As of 2021, there were approx. 97 universities in Canada, offering quality education to students. Each of these institutions is choosing their ways to grow and compete in the education market. With the enhancement in education, it is a must that institutions should opt for ERP as it can provide complete digital transformation to all the academic and administrative tasks of the institution. 

The digital transformation of institutions can leverage data and technology to improve and meet stakeholders’ expectations. In the current scenario of Canadian education, automation using mobile applications or web applications is a must for students, faculty, and staff. It can lead to efficient and easy completion of all tasks along with providing satisfaction to all stakeholders. 

With having an n-number of educational institutions in the world, it is a must that institutions should implement ERP for the complete digital revolution in education:

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in education as there exist nearly 1.5 billion students across the world. Meanwhile, the situation is getting back to normal, it is high time for educational institutions to attain a good ERP system and implement it in their institutions. Various countries from the APAC region, Middle east countries, and others including Ghana, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, and more are witnessing a digital revolution in education.

In which country your institution is located? Are you using a good ERP that is glorifying growth and success along with satisfying all the stakeholders? If not, then it is the right time for your institution to choose a good ERP that can fit, grow, and accomplish your institutional objectives. 

New Educational Institutions/Universities – Why do they have ERP/SIS from the start? 

After the COVID-19 pandemic, various new institutions were opened and established. Are you also one among them? If so, then it is initially important to keep a note of the current EdTech wave. Choosing the right technology that can boost overall operations from the start can become a path-breaking decision for institutions.  

Reasons why should new institutions implement ERP from the start:

  • Automation of operations from the start can reduce loads of paperwork
  • It enhances interactions and creates smooth communication channels 
  • It streamlines all academic and administrative operations from the first day
  • Boost productivity and enhances ROI from the start

Why is it necessary for established or 1-2 years old institutions to implement ERP?

Every educational institution has a different approach to managing academic and administrative tasks, but with the emerging competition, it is necessary to opt for modern trends and techniques that can ease out tasks for faculty, staff, and students. It is the right time for institutions to implement ERP that makes the flow systematic for all the operations. 

Reasons to implement ERP in your institution:

  • Free from hectic paperwork, documents, and manual sheets 
  • Simplification of student life cycle management 
  • Bridging the communication gap between stakeholders
  • Enhances ROI and productivity 

Conclusion 

Multiple educational institutions across the world are choosing ERP for managing their day-to-day operations and making them efficient. 

Academia ERP is benefitting 300+ educational institutions across 20 countries and 4 continents. Providing automation and digital transformation to multiple institutions and helping them bring more productivity, growth, and efficiency in the best possible ways. 

Academia is providing robust academic & administrative management to all the operations available in the institution right from admission, attendance, program & course selection, to examination, and all other tasks. With all this, it is also rendering customizable benefits to institutions according to the needs, for example, anonymous answer sheet checking, multiple report generation, and many more features. 

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Ten Ways to Increase Student Engagement During Admissions

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

For the last few years, educational institutions have started opting for technologies that play a supporting role in overall academic and administrative management. Among all other important tasks, admissions, recruitment, and enrollment are the most crucial. Institutions must opt for student engagement activities that boost admissions to the best prospects. 

Reaching the targeted student enrollment rate is not that easy. It involves new-age learning activities that are less time-consuming. According to a survey by InsideHigherEd of colleges and universities, 60% of admissions officials from community colleges and 55% of admissions officials from private bachelors colleges are concerned to complete goals for student admissions. 

Let’s have a look at ten ways to increase student engagement during admissions:

  • Efficient communication and enquiry processes 

Admissions in any education entity involve various tasks, and the first one to it is the enquiry process. It needs to be efficient with an error-free communication process. An effective communication process needs to be engaging, easy, attractive, and collaborative. 

The enquiry process needs to be quick and easy. The modern generation of students needs paced solutions. Text or video feedback are engaging ways of communicating with learners and establishing peer collaboration networks. Institutions need to understand that solutions like an ERP/SIS can automate the enquiry process making communication seamless and error-free. 

  • Involve pre-enrollment activities 

After successful enquiry completion, institutions must give a major focus on pre-enrollment activities. It directly helps in converting inquiries into admissions.  The  advanced generation of students demands pre-enrollment activities like

  • Opt technologies like portal and mobile applications to communicate with students 
  • Avail Self serve application forms 
  • Collaborate more with best-fit applicants
  • Focus on solving all the queries related to students


 

  • Effective pre-admission processes 

It is also one of the major steps of the whole admission process. Many universities and higher education institutions gear up in the pre-admission process to align the process systematically. But institutions must organize the students’ potential enquiries from different sources and take action instantly to convert the students into prospective students. 

The pre-admission process needs to be designed attractively and engagingly which should help in enhancing student engagement activities. 

  • Use social media to attract students 

Today’s generation is full of mobile phones, websites, and social media. They just demand easier and trending solutions for all their needs. Modern education leaders need to use social media to connect and coordinate with students. Using the power of social media, it will become easier to announce, notify, and welcome new students to the institution. 

  • Keep an up-to-date website 

A website is considered the online address of an entity. Educational institutions must have an up-to-date website with all the necessary features and functionalities. It should remain updated with all the latest information, news, and updates available to the institution. The most necessary element to this is, that in the highly competitive age, institutions need to keep the website SEO friendly and updated according to keyword search rankings. 

  • Utilization of a responsive mobile application 

Today’s advanced generation needs every information, notification, and update on their mobile phone. Institutions must use a responsive mobile application that can avail faculty, parents, and students to check, upload, and any information online. 

Also, Read Benefits of Mobile ERP Applications in the Education World
  • Reduce response time using automation 

It is beneficial for education leaders to attain automation in their institutions. Automation can result in reduced response time. It can keep all the academic and administrative tasks aligned and reduce response time for all the operations boosting overall productivity in the institution. 

  • Use of analytics dashboards

Universities, colleges, schools, and training centers involve a huge amount of data and information that needs to be stored, managed, and organized to be accessed anytime. Manual intervention in institutions makes this process a bit complicated and sometimes creates situations of data breaches. 

Automation is the best solution to this. Technologies like ERP/SIS can help education institutions with efficient analytics and dashboard. It can secure all the data and information systematically. It also provides many opportunities for better data gathering and analysis that can help faculty members and students in longer prospects. 

  • Enhance credibility in all operations 

In the new age of learning, there is huge competition among educational institutions. So to make a place in the ecosystem, it is a must that institutions should leverage technology and ways that can enhance credibility in all operations. Various technologies can improve all the operations and enhance productivity in the institution, some of them can be ERP, SIS, and LMS. It depends on educational institutions to choose the best and work accordingly for them.

  • Use multi-center capabilities for managing multiple campuses 

It is often seen that educational institutions find it difficult to manage admission operations on multiple campuses. It involves a multitude of data and information that needs to be shared effectively and efficiently. To manage student engagement and seamless data management, institutions must use the multi-center functionality features included in ERP software. It provides the benefit to manage various institutions using just one single software. 

How does Academia help institutions boost admissions and student retention efficiently?

Academia is the best solution for educational institutions, it can be your sole learning solution with all the major institution management functionalities and features. 

For Boosting Admissions: 

Academia empowers you with the feature of running different campaigns on social media, websites, and other platforms to attract new students. The easy online admission process and program selection also play a vital role here.

For Student Retention:

Academia’s powerful analytics comes to the rescue here. Analytics and reporting are powerful tools for analyzing the student retention rate. Graphs and reports can help education management to bring transparency and make the best decision for increasing the student retention rate.

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Student Admissions and Enrollment: Looking Beyond COVID-19

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the biggest hits to many industries in the last 5-6 decades. It resulted negatively for a lot of businesses and industries, but to some good, the education sector has found a way to continue learning & teaching systematically through online platforms. It was a challenge for all higher education institutions, universities, schools, and training institutions.

Now the situation is improving and we are getting ahead of the biggest hit of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is high time that educational institutions should rethink and adopt ways for student enrollment and recruitment. It is a convenient time for institutions to pick up ways that embrace technology and help in thinking and looking beyond COVID-19. 

Impact of a pandemic on enrollment in institutions

Emerging global trends in education that are beyond COVID–19 

  • Adoption and Implementation of the right technology 

In the new age of learning, institutions will need to focus on adopting and implementing technologies that can support student attraction and recruitment functionalities. It will also help institutions to nurture all the operations in the institution. The right technology like an ERP/SIS can automate all the operations right from enquiry, admission, enrollment, and more. It results in deeper elements, smarter insights, and better outcomes.

  • Nourishing communication and coordination 

Communication is the key to any educational institutional success, institutions must adopt techniques that can engage and attract all stakeholders while admission and enrollment. It also helps in creating a seamless contact and relationship. In the current age, it is necessary to create and drive a faster mode of communication that nourishes and nurtures good modes of coordination in the institution. 

Automation can help institutions create a splendid difference and personalized learning and teaching processes. It enables you to create, visualize, and connect through the portal, mobile application, and more from anywhere and anytime. 

  • Optimizing data & use of resources 

Every educational entity involves a huge amount of data, it also becomes crucial to arrange and manage data accordingly. Aside from a proper channel of communication, it is readily important to secure data and information. In admission management, various processes, right from enquiry, admission, and enrollment, to the selection of programs and courses. Institutions should choose the right way to protect, secure, and manage data that should be approachable and accessible right away. 

FAQs 

Here are some common FAQs that were asked by authorities of higher education institutions:

  • How can admissions and enrollment become easier for modern institutions?

The answer to this question is quite easy and understandable for modern institutions. It is also necessary that institutions should choose technology like an ERP/SIS. It automates complete academic & administrative operations not just for admissions and enrollment but also for all the other operations from examination to the alumni of a student. 

  • What can be the best way to recruit students according to their interests?

The admission season is considered one of the most important seasons in any educational institution. It needs to be seamless without any data glitches and malfunctioning. So today’s time, the most convenient way to recruit students is to make processes shorter, automated, and up-to-date. It can be possible through ERP mobile applications, portals, and student-friendly software like a learning management system, and more.  

  • How can a mobile application help different stakeholders in terms of admissions?

Today’s generation relies more on mobile phones. They like the simplest way to do any of the tasks. Educational institutions must make tasks easier and more convenient for new-age students. A robust mobile application can make a systematic flow of the complete admission process that can be accessible to any of the stakeholders present in the educational institution. Staff, faculty members, and higher authorities can update all the information related to application forms, enquiry, enrollment process, etc., in one single place, and to the best, students can find, fill, and update all the data and information using a robust mobile application. 

You can also check the benefits of mobile ERP applications for higher education institutions. 

Conclusion:

Hope you liked the article and it helped you in the complete admission and enrollment process even after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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