Corporate diary
Driving Processes with ERP
Q& A
Ecole Solutions offers a wide range of Technology Solutions that influence Teaching and Learning Delivery processes and therefore, result in improved learning outcomes. Venkatesh LS, Co-Founder and Director, Ecole Solutions Pvt Ltd, shares his views on ERP for campus management, challenges, new solutions, and much more... Excerpts:
Give us an overview of learning infrastructure solution with a special focus on Campus ERP. The learning infrastructure in campuses today needs to cater to multiple needs of institutions. Besides the hard infrastructure of servers, PCs, interactive whiteboards and networks, the soft infrastructure is critical. On the one hand you have the Student Information System as a part of the student life cycle, which will give students, admitted into various programmes, access to their entire academic records including course registrations, timetable, attendance, exams, placements and finally stay in touch with
tailor-made to suit the needs and pockets of Indian academic institutions. On the other hand, you need technologies to support and manage physical and digital libraries, eLearning course delivery, Tests and Exams and Language Labs. We, as a solution provider, implement all these different technologies to create a robust and sustainable learning infrastructure on Indian Campuses. According to you what is the rate of acceptance of ERP in the Indian education system? There is increasing awareness of the advantages of ERP in edu-
Because of several failed ERP implementations, institutions tend to be low on confidence. There is a need for evangelisation as well as education to make ERP implementations successful� the institution as an alumnus/a upon graduation. Then of course you have administrative processes that need to be streamlined so that process efficiencies can be achieved and decision making is made easier as real-time data will be available. This will also help with regulatory compliance. All this is achieved with an ERP designed using open-source components,
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cational institutions. However, it requires a lot of commitment from the top management to make them successful. In the 80s and 90s institutions used to get applications devel-
oped through their Computer Science departments or as student projects. These experiments were short-lived as they created several disparate systems that would not talk to each other. Many new institutions that are coming up are showing interest in implementing ERP systems at an early stage to