BERSOFT's Mira Skool^TM :

The current competitive environment has brought about an ever upwards spiraling standards of quality in education.

These standards demand not only a more rigorous academic focus but certainly a stringent focus, too, on holistic student development in terms of cultivating values and co-curricular strengths. Of course, outside the class room, to support these objectives, a number of back office and support operations are required such as admissions, fee collection, cash flow management, inventory management, managing teaching and administrative staff whose optimization can vastly save resources that can be used towards the growth of an institution and enrich the experience of key stake holders that interact with the institution. Simple objectives but demanding challenges.

The Promise of Collaboration :
To ensure a steady growth and enhance the visibility of a school in these fast-changing times one needs to address these challenges. A collaborative network of key stakeholders – students, alumni, teachers, administrators, parents, back office staff and vendors – holds great promise. Ideally, a collaborative education campus can

• Provide a empowered facilitating environment towards educational goals
• Provide better all-round education
• Build strong relationship with all your stakeholders
• Improve efficiencies across functions
• Reduce costs and optimize cash flows
• Allow effective staff management
• Optimise inventory
• Mobilise resources and enhance co-ordination
• ACHIEVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION

Role of Automation and Business Intelligence in Collaboration :

Effective collaboration entails seamless integration across processes, function and people. The first step, is automation.

Automation allows speed and ability to do mammoth and mundane tasks accurately by minimizing the risk of human error and within the enforcement of rules; a methodology that by minimizing effort and capturing data that can be mined for business intelligence enables optimization of resources.

Business Intelligence mines for information by processing – properly querying, collating and presenting - captured data. This information provides key insights that serve as a critical decision support.

An effective enterprise application can achieve both.

To develop such applications for the Education vertical, Bersoft has been working closely with the Apeejay Education Society since 2001 on state-of-the-art methodologies under the MIRÁ^TM banner. MIRÁ SKOOL^TM is the application towards schools.