Education

The changing Information Technology paradigm can help educational institutes increase the effectiveness and efficiency of education, and reduce its cost. Today more organizations in this field are adopting technology and ushering in sophisticated teaching methods to meet their goals.

There is a greater need now than ever before for intelligent solutions. A K-12 school may want to deploy an application to improve interaction with parents. A college or university may need solutions to better plan the curriculum, rollout surveys, plan supplies, or have an emergency response systems. According to our survey conducted in 2008, the following areas are key to the success of an educational institute:

• IT security
• ERP/Administrative Information System
• Interactive Information Exchange System
• Parent interaction
• Student interaction
• E-learning/ distributed teaching and learning
• Infrastructure management

ThoughtFocus can partner with your educational institute to drive your IT initiatives to completion. Our domain experts guide you towards the right solutions that address your challenges and help enhance capabilities. Through our strengths in consulting, we help you develop a clear IT plan. We begin by analyzing your IT and infrastructure, propose a solution to achieve short-term and long-term institutional goals, provide a technology road map, implement requirements, and share estimates for software/ hardware and all related resources.

From K-12 schools, colleges, and universities to product companies that deliver software to the education sector, we have worked with multiple organizations to build expertise and scale in this space. We offer customized solutions in:

• IT security
• E-learning
• Distributed teaching and learning
• Change management
• Identity and access management

ThoughtFocus offerings for education include:

• Systems Integration and technical services for software packages like Oracle-Peoplesoft, IBM FileNet, Microsoft SharePoint, COGNOS, Oracle Business Intelligence, etc.
• Software solutions
• Third-party product development, and research and development
• Custom software application development

• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Business Intelligence
• Integration with ECM Systems
• Reporting and data warehousing configuration, and implementation and support
• Cross-module integration services
• Third-party software integration service