How do you choose the best service provider for a School ERP?

From the plethora of options available for products in the markets today, it is no easy task to choose the product that is best for you. Similarly, once you have decided that your institution needs an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, it can prove challenging to pick out the best service provider for you.

So, here are some tips on how to choose the best School ERP for your institute:-

1.    Easy to Use & to Adapt -

When bringing in new software to your system of administration of the school, the most important thing is that it is easy to learn to operate the new system by your staff as well as the students. The main purpose of a School ERP is to decrease burden and make things run smoothly and quickly, one that is difficult to work with will only create more problems.

2.    Flexibility & Scalability -

Again, the chosen software must not create problems for you after sometime it is installed. It should have some amount of flexibility to be customized as per your needs at some point in the future so that it is easy to incorporate changes for new timetables, new marking systems for attendance etc. Also, the School ERP software you use must have a measure of Scalability in it to account for the growing student body/staff given some time.

3.    Learning impact and features -

A School ERP’s most rewarding job is probably the enhanced learning experience. With this software, doubt sessions between the teacher and students can be conducted online and student’s performance records accessed. It is important to have these performance evaluation charts and rankings accessible to the staff clearly so that the school can improve upon a child are learning capabilities. 

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4.    Reliability and Long-term support -

The software you choose should be reliable tried and tested and preferably come with a back-up/recovery option. This is to ensure restoration of important files and entries in case the system might crash/cannot be accessed.

The above pointers are more than enough to help you achieve your goal of getting your dream School ERP software for your school!

Authored By -
Mitushi Gupta