Three points to note about SaaS selection in the education industry

The 2008 economic crisis swept the world, resulting in financial turmoil worldwide, although domestic industries are facing a small impact, but in the face of the crisis, China's education industry is bucking and fruitful. According to statistics, the education industry in 2008, the investment case of 18, the investment amount of 1.822 billion yuan, regardless of the number of investment cases or the total amount of investment, 2008 are the highest industry investment. Especially noteworthy is that the education industry information management has also shown an unprecedented good momentum, the first domestic SaaS vendors 800 customers using the SAAS system simple, convenient, low-cost features, quickly put the education industry into the "information management" army.

Education industry has been known as "forever Chaoyang Industry", whether it is public or private, whether it is the training of employment or entrepreneurial innovation, the market competition is more and more fierce, the integration of school customer resources and strategic adjustment, internal management efficiency, but also more by the market decision-makers concerned. The advent of the information age, management has become the biggest obstacle to the development of training schools, the expansion of market size, training schools on the standardization of the management of more and more obvious, information management has become the only way for enterprises.

For enterprises in the education industry, spending huge sums of money to improve and maintain their work environment is not only difficult for enterprises to bear, but also a lot of waste of resources. At the same time, in the technical aspect, the traditional application software also already satisfies the user to the service usability, the security and so on many aspects demand. SaaS, as a new model for accelerating enterprise information management, provides cloud computing services for hundreds or even thousands of users, which means that computing resources can be deployed and shared in a timely manner through a technology center, and SaaS providers can effectively reduce operational costs through data center scale effects. Thus more beneficial to the user's SaaS product development, improve the education industry information level.

While SaaS is at its initial stage, a variety of SaaS products have sprung up to dazzle businesses. In the tide of SaaS, the education industry wants to make full use of SaaS, realize education informationization, how to choose, how to deploy it? According to the author understand, the choice of SaaS, three points should be noted:

First, the service provider should have a successful case

The education industry in the choice of SaaS, first of all to see whether the service providers have successful cases, especially for the same industry cases, the more cases the better. One of the key factors in measuring how well a SaaS service provider is doing is to see if there are any cases.

As one of the most professional SaaS service providers, the 800-passenger army has been successfully providing solutions to the famous brands such as Dell English, Suntech institution, red-tassel education and universal IELTS for over six years, and has been widely recognized in the education industry.

"The overall use of the 800-guest online CRM system is very good, we have entered the millions customer data, which often used also has tens of thousands of customer data. Through the standard CRM business process, changed the previous market, sales, campus information flow and audit, data analysis summary lag, loose situation, also greatly reduce the loss of our potential students. "Dell International English Call center and system leader Li Chen said.

Second, the system must have availability, timely deployment of

The SaaS product itself has a lot of versatility, but from the point of view of user application, the choice of SaaS service provider is to consider its product, whether it is universal and easy to use. Education industry is a special industry, therefore, in the selection of products, should be as far as possible to choose the education industry management level of SaaS products, so as to ensure that in future applications will not be too much error. At the same time, the need to consider the implementation cycle of SaaS, but also conducive to the construction of information.

800 guests for the characteristics of education and training industry, the introduction of education and training industry solutions, to solve potential students source analysis, innovative service mechanism implementation and information system timely update, simplify the administration of the educational system and other management problems. 800 Customer SaaS products on-demand customization can be based on the actual needs of the enterprise "tailor-made", so that users do not have to choose products and distress, 800APP educational management system can easily customize a full set of correctional procedures, to facilitate the Director of teaching management approval, and the right to set up flexible, can meet any form of configuration requirements. In addition, 800 customers as a technical company, the system has an integrated interface to achieve rapid development, 800APP system based on the PAAs platform, replacing the traditional code-style software development, greatly reducing the time for software development and implementation.

Third, the manufacturer should have good service

SaaS and traditional management software, like the same common features, that is the service, due to the maturity of technology, now the product belongs to the same, in the technical field, technology is no longer a problem, difficult to depend on the service level of different enterprises, choose a SaaS provider before, It is also critical to consider whether this business can provide a good level of service.

The service demand of the enterprise is as unique as the business, and the service of 800 guest has already surpassed the traditional technical support category. 800 Customer Cloud Delivery implementation model has greatly changed the delivery means of management information system. Customers do not need to pay for on-site installation, configuration, development and other traditional field implementation of the huge cost, only need to adopt 800APP "remote Internet delivery", you can easily obtain a customized management system, more than 6,000 different geographical enterprises, is benefiting from cloud delivery of rapid and low-cost management change.

In addition, 800APP training services can help every employee improve productivity. Users can watch the training videos by business role, or they can participate in the online training of 800 guests per working day, communicate directly with the experts, enrich the online training videos, determine the learning rhythm by the staff, and customize the training to maximize the value of the system.

After the crisis era, the emergence of SaaS shook the entire management software market, but also affected the industry informatization. In this "cloud" volume "cloud" comfortable era, education industry information process unstoppable.

Three points to note about SaaS selection in the education industry