CampusIT Serves More Than 400,000 Students in the Cloud
September 1, 2011
CampusIT simplifies student interaction helping universities deliver a better and faster service
CampusIT ( www.campusit.net ), the education management systems provider, today announced that it is now serving the needs of more than 400,000 higher education students around Europe on its cloud computing model…
CampusIT’s cloud based student interaction software, provides higher education institutions with online and mobile solutions to communicate with their students in a simple and timely manner. It enables universities to engage with their students as active partners throughout their college lives from student recruitment to discussion forums and graduation registrations.
This helps to deliver a better overall service to the student as they experience improved information sharing with their university or college.
CampusIT is the backbone of some of the largest student management systems in Europe. It works with a wide range of higher education institutes, the largest of which handles more than 20,000 registrations in a single month.
Higher education institutes are currently under pressure to increase overall efficiencies due to an increasingly complex and competitive education landscape, changing student demands, and funding cuts. This coupled with an increase in storage and archiving requirements, and demand for computing power, is driving the move towards the efficiencies of cloud computing. Cloud computing is allowing higher education institutions to easily and cost effectively manage these large resource requirements.
Tony Sheridan, CEO, CampusIT said, "Universities are leading the way in the move to cloud computing as they need computing power on demand and to provide resources to their ever growing student populations. Today’s students who have grown up with Amazon, and Facebook, now expect, the same on-demand, convenient services from their education providers.
"In the UK, the Higher Education Funding Council for England recently announced an investment of GBP 12.5 million in cloud computing to help universities save costs in terms of their IT provisioning. Our cloud platform allows universities achieve some of these efficiencies and cost savings and provide students with the collaborative communication they have come to expect from their university."