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EdAutomate
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Human Resources
- Maintenance
- Procurement
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
School districts in the U.S. have well established processes that they have used over many years. While these processes are mature, the cost of ERP and other commercial work flow software did not allow for the school districts to obtain a sufficient Return on Investment. While the need was great, the cost was prohibitive. Too much time was required to find and fill out paper forms, by staff that should be working with students. Paper forms data was taking days to enter into data systems, or the forms data was never entered, resulting in loss of information available to manage the school district. Errors and lost documents plagued the district, resulting in additional lost time for all staff.
About The Customer
EdAutomate provides U.S. school districts with process automation and school district intelligence. EdAutomate focuses on taking the Administrivia out of the daily work so teachers and administrators can be focused on “Student Achievement”. The company has over 25 years in the educational software business and recognized an opportunity to work with school districts to automate these work flows by combining the best open source software into a suite and delivering the experience in a Software as a Service model (Saas).
The Solution
EdAutomate provides several solutions to the challenges faced by school districts. EdBuyIt automates the purchasing process, providing an analytic view of purchases and reducing time in entering requests, creating PO’s and Purchase Requisitions. EDHr provides school districts with staff absence, professional development course and conference request and more. Maintenance and Technology Request focuses on a single easy experience for staff members, all the assistance a teacher needs is easily requested from a single request area. Reports and Analytics allows teachers to review their requests in reports, principals view the analytic cubes for their schools and the department and administration can drill down district wide to the core data that is driving the school. Records Management in many processes, EdAutomate creates the official document during the process. Purchase Orders, requisitions, receipts, invoices. Proper records management has been is essential for retrieval and retention requirements of these documents. With EdAutomate, the system provides accurate meta-data to the document automatically, insuring proper filing and retrieval. Amazon EC2 Cloud Hosting: EdAutomate delivers the full suite of Software as a Service (Saas) on Amazon’s EC2 cloud, providing the safest, most dependable and most secure environment for the school district.
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