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What is a library management system and how important it is for private colleges?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

“When in doubt go to the library”

The line is said by a legendary writer of all time- J.K. Rowling.

We all know the importance of books in our life but an educational institute cannot breathe it. And how do institutes manage all those books for every level, for every class?

With a well-organized library.

Unlike primary higher education, schools has more demand for books as our young adults like to explore more and their area of grasping knowledge is vast. Therefore, higher educational institutes always require a proper library with well-arranged structure.

Here comes the library management.

What is a library management system?

A library management system or integrated library management software is a program to help librarians and users in circulating and cataloging items. It helps to manage the database by tracking item movement and keeping other records library. The main objective of the library management system is to increase the productivity and output of the library, librarians and its users.

What is KOHA?

KOHA is a world-famous electronic software to automate all the operations of your library. It’s a full highly scalable, full-featured, economical and easy to use library management system. It supports companies, educational institutes of varying sizes to maintain their libraries.

The literal meaning of KOHA is-Gift that is meant to be reciprocated.

KOHA doesn’t belong to any person or company. It’s sponsored by a group of libraries, communities and support company. It’s free and open source software i.e. FOSS.

It can help in cataloging, creating and running reports with KOHA report module, circulation, resend and accounting of all size, multi-branch libraries. You can also print barcode and labels with this library management software.

KOHA usually comes integrated into a college management system. A college management system is an education ERP software to automate complete academic and non-academic operations of a colleges

Recommended reading- Top Functionalities of an Education ERP Software

Importance of library management system in private colleges

Library system in private colleges is very demanding. Due to cutting edge competition and continuous need for advancement, they have to run their system with a very targeted mission.

Private colleges offer multiple courses along with various curriculums to increase the involvement of students. This requires an administrative system fulfilled with all the resources. Resources that also include books, magazine, newspaper, published papers, etc.

Here are the reasons why private colleges need a library management system:

It saves time

Library management system automates all the manual processes in your library. With it, librarians can easily keep records of all the details. They can easily access the data whenever needed. User can also get information about where to find which books and if they are available or not. It saves a lot of time for both the users and the librarian.

It will reduce the operation cost

One library management system can do the tasks of many workers. You can save operational cost with the reduction of manual tasks. Due to time-saving in processing, it can save thousands of dollars.

It will increase productivity

With the complete automation of library information and online data management, it becomes easy to share information among users, librarians, and patrons. With the functionality of time-saving, cost-cutting it increases the productivity of the library and its users.

Are you ready for a smooth running time-saving library management?

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Student Information System: Empowering Institutions

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

The Student Information System is an ecological system that helps the institutes get rid of distributed data. This all is in single software which includes initial documentation from inquiry management, and student registration, till students get passed out of the college / University. This software will help you in running all day-to-day college activities without difficulty. College can easily send alerts or different sorts of information via SMS or email to parents and students. Information generated includes results, attendance records, assignments, notices related to different cultural activities, seminars, corporate events, Placements, etc…

 Student Management System helps in many ways such as:

  1. Authentic time reports: Long ago manual reports technology was used in institutions. These days, the management can do the whole lot on ERP, which in itself is an inbuilt mechanism for generating reports. Many styles of actual time assessment can be generated from such software in the form of different excel reports.
  2. Paperlessness: Automation of process leads to reduced usage of paper which ultimately helps in saving time and money.
  3. Data Security: SIS provides a high level of data security in terms of protecting data from unauthorized access and data corruption throughout its life cycle.
  4. Improved quality of interaction: With the help of SIS interaction between Students – Faculty, Student – Management, Management – Parents, Intra college Faculties, Administrator became more transparent.
  5. Growing productivity: The proper use of ERP software program will boom the productivity of University / Colleges to a large volume.

Hence, the Student Information Software is a boon to the education industry. With limited and constrained options to satisfy the current generation, let us start working towards a better tomorrow with the ease of SIS in a click away

Why User Experience Matters in ERP Selection

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

User Experience or Customer Experience is essential in today’s age and world. Many organization is optimizing their user experience to meet customer expectations. Failing to optimize the user experience can harm your business and you may not be able to achieve expected results.

Education management system i.e. Educational ERP’s plays an important role in the overall process beginning from admissions, the inquiry goes via examination, transport, hostel to completion and alumni, etc. These functions are the core functions of an educational institution and therefore these require everyday updating and hence it is important for an education ERP to be user-friendly.

But the campus/college management system many times attract a bad reputation for not being particularly user-friendly. Densely packed interfaces, disturbing workflows, and the need for users to navigate endless screens to complete transactions result in confusion and frustration. Improving user engagement is key.

To ensure high user engagement it is important to have a deep understanding of user’s behavior, similarly, for enterprise applications, it’s also necessary to have an insight into their roles in their professional setting and the ease of use that the system can provide to them on a daily basis. Enterprise applications can also look to provide its users with a fresh, clutter-free User Interface which breaks away from the mundane settings and allows the user to interact with the system in an intuitive way.

The rapidly changing industry demands that stress is laid on end-to-end customer experience. This is important because the end-to-end experience covers all aspects such as how easy it is to learn the product, perform on the product, and also how the vendor responds to any customer issues and problems. All these factors matter a lot in the enterprise IT business as the usage of the product is constant and thus the support needs to be spot on as well. With new dimensions and new technologies kicking in the industry, user experience and purchase patterns have really changed and matured over time. The advent and use of cloud technology prove to be sizeable leverage for customers in technology purchasing decisions.

How to build better customer experience capabilities

  • What your customer feels: Know about the customer’s feelings if they are delighted or frustrated with the product or maybe the services provided. You will have to stand strong against your competitors in the industry and keep addressing any or all of the issues that are reported by your customers. Improving the end-user experience should always be thought of at first while decision making.
  • Find the right way out: As suggested that during the decision making the customers and their experience should be thought of first, therefore you should always fall in line with the alignment of the critical issues that are reported and competitive situations. You will have to continuously work upon it to bring in cent percent results.
  • Create a plan of action: Design a super awesome customer experience system by creating a closed feedback loop of current customers. The continuous effort of improving the end-to-end system and fixing all the issues will create customer loyalty and lower down the rate of losing customers which will ultimately result in overall benefits.
  • Change the mindset: Instill a business culture and create systems based on customer experience. Most companies in the IT industry follow a trend of promising a good user experience that is never backed up by an actual one, these will find it difficult to improvise. But the market is all set to roll now and these types of companies will not be able to cope up in the long run without perusing change.
  • Be patient: Recognize that it’s a long journey. Commit to bringing your customer experience in line with your promises.

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21st century’s education system must be ERP driven to be effective

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

“Technology has to be either invented or adopted.”

The invention is not for everybody, so then one must choose adoption.

Since more than a decade, technology is making lives easier with each passing day. Technology advances show people a more efficient way to do things, and these processes get results.

Every industry has grown many folds with technological advancements and ERP- Enterprise Resource Planning has been a Hot potato since then. Because it brings effectiveness in the efficiency of day to day working and penetrates in cost-cutting too. Accommodating it i\nto an organization is sure not an easy job at the start but eventually, it results in entrepreneurial efficiency in its operations.

ERPs have been in trend for mostly all the industries but specifically, in the education sector, it’s been more emphatic. ERP in education is in a nascent stage when we talk of the Indian market, but more and more universities, schools, and training institutes are picking up ERP’s, this rise is evident due to the downward arrows in effectiveness, quality, efficiency, and data recording. Therefore, ERP has helped organizations with reduced lead-time, improved quality, reduced asset turns, higher productivity, and improved decision-making. The focus of education management software dominantly falls on centralized control and efficient database management to allow better control over information, data, and reports needed for authoritative control.

The educational institutes should prioritize the development and retaining of quality in delivering the right education which might only be possible when educationists focus on education and not peripheral services. The divergent part of any university, college, school or training institute has always been the management and administration part which can be taken care of by ERPs with innumerable facilities (modules) provided in these types of management software like student information, fee collection, scholarship management, inquiry management through timely reverts, transportation (bus with GPRS facility), accounting and documents generation (like mark sheets, vouchers, bills etc.) etc..

Considering the Future, this is the right time to invest in ERP solutions for harvesting the maximum returns. Once the software is incorporated in the management it delivers a smooth functioning in the organization. The integrated enterprise technology can connect and improve business performance by optimal resource utilization. Optimality plays a key role in strategy formation for cost savings and ERP has been one of the best solutions with optimization as a key deliverable as it emphasizes on procurement of less human resources for data handling and efficiency plus accurate reporting.

Academia ERP is one of the best campus management software present in the world. It’s a product which has scalability written in its core and thus it has this unique functionality to support multi-organization definition. Also, it can be customized and made permissible in accordance to the various functions it adheres.

Academia gives you access to different portals viz, Parents portal, Students portal, Faculty portal which allows and acts as a medium of smooth communication between Student-Faculty, faculty-parent, Parent-management, Faculty – Management, etc. This also allows for various stakeholders of the organization to view and raise requests which in turn can act as internal quality control measurements. It also helps to simply automate the process which infers speed in the regular operations resulting in benefits which involve time-saving, cut on employee costs, strict monitoring, and better control.

Academia enables an institution to deliver the education which is promised and cutting the worries of administration till the edge. A right type of ERP will help manage the overall processes that may involve the management of resources which are limitedly available with the institutes. The simple idea is smooth automation for accurate results.

The growth that any organization seeks is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises the quality & efficiency of organizational processes.

Make the right decision by choosing the perfect fit management software for your institution.

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