Why Schools In UAE Are Giving Preference To Cloud-hosted School Management System?

Education is one of the fastest growing sectors globally. Part of this is because a larger number of children being admitted in schools due to various factors such as increased awareness, growing demand of highly skilled jobs, etc. But, the major reason education is rapidly evolving is the tough competition among educational campuses not just on a national but also on a global level. 

National boundaries no longer play a part in education or even jobs, for that matter. The students of the digital age are happy to go abroad and pursue education.

Whatever may be the reason behind the rapid growth of the educational sector, the consequences and the impact are huge and widespread. The UAE is no different.

Schools in the UAE have long been using school management software for efficient student data management and streamlining of the daily scholastic operations. But even this has changed in the recent past years.

Schools these days are increasingly opting for paperless cloud-hosted school management system due to a number of reasons which are listed below.

One Step Further

Yes, cloud-hosted student information systems take schools a step further in ways more than one. The data stored in the cloud can be easily accessed and hence can be processed easily from anywhere in the world.

A principal can access crucial data even while attending an educational conference halfway across the globe. Similarly, a teacher can assess or manage student data from home, or from anywhere outside the campus.

Hosting student data on the cloud is all about flexibility. Anyone having the appropriate login credentials can get the details anywhere they need. This gives the educators the time to focus on teaching and learning when they are at school.

The ease with which crucial information can be accessed and processed is what takes teachers, administrators, and the whole school a step further in the right direction.

Future-ready 

Earlier, student data was stored in disjointed systems. For instance, the examination data was stored in a different system and the admissions data was stored in another. This led to a lot of manual data entry work and created data redundancy.

Moreover, the same information was stored in multiple systems and even on papers. This led to unnecessary consumption of storage space either digital or physical. But cloud-based education ERP consists of highly integrated systems.

The integrated systems enable data and information to flow from one system to the other easily and smoothly. This not just saves a lot of time and efforts of teachers but also reduces their workload and hassle considerably.

With real-time key data available to the educators anytime, from anywhere, they can be future-ready.

Student Data Protection

One of the key concerns of schools today is student data security. Student data is constantly under threat which could be external or internal, physical or virtual/cyber-related.

Earlier student data was maintained in excel or on files. Data stored in both these forms was vulnerable to corruption, manipulation, and even theft.

Whereas, student information stored in the cloud is as safe as data can be. Add the security measures and highly encrypted ERP system on top of cloud security and you get an almost invincible system capable of protecting data in all manners.

Cost-efficiency

Cloud-hosted campus management systems do not require additional hardware or IT infrastructure costs. Since they are hosted on the cloud, there is no need for multiple hardware systems or additional IT infrastructure.

You simply have to have an internet connection and an internet-enabled device and you are good to go. The cloud-hosted ERP gives you enough flexibility to even operate the system from a tablet pc or a smartphone itself.

When there is no additional IT infrastructure then there is no need for additional manpower to maintain such systems. Furthermore, the cloud-hosted ERP are maintained by the ERP vendor, which means you don’t have to pay for upgrades or actually install an update.

All this saves the schools a lot of time, efforts and hassle, which in turn leads to higher productivity and improved processes and the teachers have the time to improve student outcomes and drive progress across the school.

Furthermore, many cloud-vendors such as MasterSoft allows you to pay according to the usage. So you pay for only the services you have deployed and not a penny more.

Many forward-thinking schools in Dubai have opted for cloud-based school ERP because of the reasons stated above. If you haven’t implemented cloud-hosted ERP at your School then it's high time you go for it.

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