A Holistic Campus Management System brought to you by Astute Business Solutions
Campus Management Solutions are a dime a dozen in the market, institutions often make a mistake in subscribing to leading brands without understanding their complexities, often leading to immense dissatisfaction. In a world where “19 out of 20” such implementations fail to meet customer’s expectations and with only 2% of these are because of technology, why pay more for less? Universities and Education Institutions continue to grapple with rising costs, digitization, globalization, technology advances and increasing regulatory compliances. With Astute Business Solutions’ OpeneCampus, they can stay ahead of the pack. Institutions are hampered by cobbled legacy systems and infrastructure that are highly complex, fragmented and extremely unstable. The need to reduce costs; cope with global competition for students, faculty and researchers further exacerbates this situation. Institutions of today need solutions that facilitate informed decision making, keep pace with speed of changing technology, link education curricula to tangible outcomes and meet increasingly strict standards for regulatory compliance. Astute Business Solutions with its history of experience in the education sector has developed an advanced solution specifically designed to meet the unique needs of today’s education institutions while offering flexibility of OpenBravo’s Open Source platform to achieve the precise fit for their Campus Management needs. Astute’s OpeneCampus solutions offers a flexible product that rivals the best existing solutions out there in the market at a fraction of the total cost of owner ship.
Academic Institutions in the modern world are complex frameworks that support the confluence of academics, administrative processes and long-term relationships. Though the institutions know the need to focus on student lifecycle, i.e. from the first contact from a lead through admissions, enrollment and alumni pursuits, they are stumbled with solutions that are too complex and expensive or with ones that don’t offer a solution for their operational paradigm. Astute has understood this burgeoning need and has developed a solution that not only meets the needs of today, but one that can cater for what’s in store for tomorrow. OpeneCampus has been developed keeping in mind the evolution of modern education institutions as they continue to transform learning delivery. With OpeneCampus, your institution can build unique programs and differentiate in the market. This solution offers operational excellence and a hassle free web-based user experience that can scale up without need for expensive customization. With OpenBravo’s open source platform, they can interact and work with complex, and multiplatform environments
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Have you every wondered how much effort it takes to update a simple task such as change of student address to multiple databases? Now imagine if the student is also an employee, whose parents are alumni? Would your current system be able to manage the various roles? The Process begins with the first contact! Institutions that are successful realize that the first contact from a prospect is an opportunity to nurture and grow that relationship, but they are often confounded by the fact that their current solutions don’t allow effective communication and sharing of this information securely and without being lost. With OpeneCampus one can not only exchange information but also tie the initial contact information to the subsequent application, admission and enrollment whilst retaining history of the progress. One can also track student’s affiliations, relationships, and quirks in order to personalize communications and interactions. From a senior management perspective this can track the effectiveness of the organization’s recruitment and retention process right from the first contact! OpeneCampus’ built in Lead Management Module along with its admission module, offer a powerful, integrated and yet a customizable solution to meet with the most complex needs. Furthermore with OpenBravo a customer can also integrate with the existing CRM solutions that are already in use with their institutions, there by eliminating the need for “Changing the way one works”.
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Contribute to Student Retention during the Lifecycle The next step of nurturing the relationship begins once the student is admitted to the institution. To support this endeavor institutions must be able to flexibly define programs of study to meet the ever-changing student and community needs. Institutions now have to provide a positive experience with the different systems and processes, have an effective and efficient communication and feedback mechanisms.
“Making the college or university a
truly real time enterprise and achieving practical fusion of business and academic process will become a guiding ambition of institutions of higher learning”
With OpeneCampus institutions can manage every specific detail of the student’s enrollment into programs, track progress of the student during his time. Faculty, administrators and advisors can now gain information and insight needed to help the students achieve their goals and thereby retain them at the institution.
Merging with Learning Management Systems Institutions have increasingly digitizing their knowledge delivery processes. Online learning is the need of the hour and is increasingly being demanded by the students. OpeneCampus’ Open Source platform can seamlessly integrate with Learning Management Systems such as Moodle allow for an interconnectivity of the enrollment data, curriculum information, facilitator changes and exam details.
Manage complex fee structures University education around the globe is increasingly expensive and poses a challenge to students to fund them. Governments are also reducing support owing to cycles of recession. Students have to look for third party loan schemes, work and study programs and corporate sponsors for funding their education. Institutions need to respond with flexibility and adaptability in their information systems to cater for this shift. With OpeneCampus a variety of options are available for configuring application, admission, enrollment charges and other fees. With no extra cost, institutions can leverage Openbravo’s financial module thereby extending further options for invoicing and billing designated third parties and integrating online payment gateways.
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Manage Assessments, Exams through to Graduation With OpeneCampus institutions can schedule exams at different centers, manage and communicate results through to student graduation. Institutions can thereby cultivate and grow the relationship during the lifecycle, increasing the chances of a former student to return for further academic pursuits.
Alumni Many Institutions are reaching out and building stronger relationships with alumni, their friends and foundations to cultivate additional source of revenue and support. With OpeneCampus, institutions can improve the efficacy of their fund raising appeals and further strengthen these relationships.
Holistic Integration of Campus Facilities Be it a library system, back end office HR Systems or your asset management system, with OpenBravo’s Open Source platform, institutions can experience a holistic view of its constituents and connect the entire campus community. Such a system offers an unparalleled experience that sets the institutions apart from the rest.
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Contact us for a Demo OpeneCampus is developed and implemented by Astute technologies, institutions can now leverage the talent of the company’s resources to support all aspects of its operations. Astute continues to hire, train and retain the best talent required to provide support for institutions changing needs. With Astute’s dedicated support, proven experience and global reputation, institutions don’t need to look further for a life long partner.
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