Education Solution

Small and Medium Business

In an era of rapidly evolving modes of teaching, learning, and research, students are going beyond their classrooms to embrace social media and accelerate their learning experience. Teachers are also responding to the changing environment by stepping beyond imparting knowledge, to creating it. Therefore, the challenge for educational institutes today: to create and support a virtual campus infrastructure that enables the prime stakeholders to collaborate and access resources from anywhere and at anytime. To address these challenges, we at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) provide Education Solution that offers integrated capabilities for an institute by enabling core functions, support functions, and management of institutional resources. The on-demand solution is offered through our innovative business model IT-as-a-Service, which facilitates innovation, customer acquisition, and revenue growth, while addressing your future ICT needs.

Overview
The increasing focus on technology has impacted the education system, replacing old models of teaching and learning. Students, faculty, and researchers now have easy access to the Internet and open networks, and display high degrees of sharing, collaboration, and participation. While fuelling the concept of education anytime and anywhere, it has also paved the way for technology-based education administration. Our Education Solution offers an integrated suite of modules that provides a single view of business process information, to guide decision-making. With features that enhance operational efficiency, we also help you upgrade your administrative functions and provide a platform for e-learning. Our IT-as-a-Service model equips us to cater to your hardware, software, and network infrastructure comprehensively, thus reducing installation time and leading to faster Return on Investment (RoI). Our pay-as-you-use model allows you to adapt to the changing usage of the software, thereby lowering your capital expenditure and our build-as-you-grow approach predicts costs, helping in budgeting and planning. Both these bring in cost-efficiency. While bringing you scalability, our solution is enhanced by features that provide:
n Multi-lingual support; n Role-based access and privileges for students and teachers; n For publishing, managing, and organizing a wide variety and

large volumes of content;

n A centralized and organized knowledge repository to capture,

store, index, and preserve critical information;

n Collaborative tools for web conferencing, online

communication, and training;

n Integration to support functions such as human resource

management solution, payroll management, and finance and accounting management;

n For integrated library management and cataloging.

An overview of our Education Solution Vertical Core Application

Academics Management n Admissions Management n Student n and Faculty Self-Service Fee Management n Library n Management Hostel n Management Transport Management n Training & Placement Management n Alumni n Management Purchase Management n Inventory Management n Donation and Grants Management n Professionle Virtual Community n Learning Management n

Business Solutions
HRMS n Payroll n Finance n and Accounting Project n Management Customer Relationship Management n

Office Solutions

Education Solution

TCS IT-as-a-Service

Messaging n Document Management n Intranet n Management Online n Presence Management

Hardware Services
Implementation Locations n Server n & Switch Configuration
n PC & Laptop Installation

Network Services
Hosting n Platform Router n & Last Mile Setup
n Network Locations

Functionalities of our Education Solution

Campus and administration management solution
n Core functions like academics management,

Professional virtual community platform and learning management solution

n students, faculty, and researchers to access Allows

admissions management, student and faculty selfservice, and fee management;

n Support functions like managing libraries, hostels,

educational resources and content, at anytime from anywhere;

n a culture of collaborative learning; Fosters n a strong powerful foundation for true Creates

transport, alumni, training, and placement;

n Management of institutional resources like purchase,

inventory, finance & accounting, human resource, payroll, donation, and grants;
n Management of hardware and network services.

knowledge communities.

Benefits
Our solution is supported by our unique IT-as-a-Service model that not only standardizes current business processes, but also accommodates evolving functionalities and changing processes. In addition, this approach enhances business value by directing your ICT staff towards critical business oriented initiatives. The Education Solution also brings benefits such as:
n Cost efficiency. We facilitate better utilization of resources,

and systems integration requirements for your ICT consumption. This eliminates the need to manage multiple vendors.
n and scalability. Our solution has the ability to adapt Agility

thus reducing costs, as well as total cost of ownership of the IT infrastructure.

n Increased operational efficiency. Our solution improves your

to changing user and market needs. It helps you to scale up significantly, in terms of reach as well as quality and methodology of delivery. This encourages students to perform to their highest level of competence.
n inputs. Built to respond to market demands along Active

administrative processes thereby increasing the operational efficiency of staff members. For example, the fee management cycle is reduced by approximately 30 per cent.*
n integrated solution. We provide end-to-end services Single,

with your inputs, our solution is focused and relevant to your specific needs.
n Informed decision making. Our solution helps you to

streamline your administrative functions, enabling an integrated view of your operations, to make critical decisions. (* Based on a TCS survey carried out at a customers premises)

that identify and map hardware, software, network, consulting,

Why TCS
Our IT-as-a-Service model protects you from technology obsolescence and transforms you into a value-producing part of your organization. We add value to the engagement with our:
n Comprehensive capabilities. Taking complete responsibility

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM , recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, Indias largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 143,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $6 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2009 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

for provisioning your hardware, software, and network infrastructure, we drastically reduce installation and setup time. This results in faster Return on Investment (ROI) and quicker time-to-market.
n Defined and predictable practices. Our build-as-you-grow

model enables you to estimate the cost in advance, helping you budget your annual expenses. Also, our IT-as-a-Service solution comprises pick-and-play modular solutions that fit your business in an integrated manner.
n to evolve. Our IT-as-a-Service applications are not Ability

licensed products with a one-time functionality. They evolve with your business and provide immense flexibility to accommodate your changing processes. Our solution consists of best-in-class infrastructure, processes, and data security to bring you predictable business.
n and reliable measures. Protecting your data through Secure

Contact
To know more about Education Solution, smb.queries@tcs.com contact Toll Free Number 1-800-209-6030; Phone number - +91-22- 6778 6736

multiple security-layers, including disaster recovery capabilities for data safeguard, we enable secure anytimeanywhere data access with predefined access restrictions.
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