Campus Management is building out its constituent
relationship and application management portfolio with the acquisition of five
product lines from Hobsons:
Radius, App Review, Apply Yourself, Connect and Retain. Hobsons staff from those
areas will continue to design, develop, implement and support the products at
Campus Management.
"As we continue to evolve our
Campus Nexus engagement platform, fostering communications and relationships
throughout the student life cycle, we look to constantly improve upon what we
offer to the market," commented Campus Management CEO Jim Milton, in a
statement. "The CRM and application management products add to our already
strong Campus Nexus suite to achieve that goal, and the addition of the very
talented Hobsons team members reinforces our mission to deliver the higher
education platform and services that enable institutions to transform their
academic delivery, student success and operational efficiency, on their
terms."
Hobsons will retain Naviance, its K–12
college and career readiness platform, Intersect, its student-college matching
platform, and Starfish, its higher education student success and analytics
platform. The company plans to focus on those core products going forward,
according to a news announcement.
"As
Hobsons looks to the future, we want to focus our portfolio and continue to
build upon our leadership position in Naviance, Intersect and Starfish —
business lines where we have the greatest opportunity to continue to grow,
always with the aim of helping K–12 schools and districts and higher education
institutions advance their student success goals," said Hobsons CEO Kate
Cassino, in a statement. "We're pleased that with Campus Management, we
have found a buyer that is well-positioned to invest in the future of our CRM
and application management products and committed to serving the customers
using them. We are also happy that our colleagues working in these product
lines will transition to a great home at Campus Management."
Campus Solutions Provider
Raj Mruthyunjayappa is the Bangalore-based managing
director (Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa) of the Boca Raton
(USA)-based Campus Management Corporation (CMC) which offers a complete ERP
(enterprise resource planning) solution to over 2,000 higher education
institutions in 26 countries. In this capacity, Mruthyunjayappa manages CMC’s
business in all geographies except the American continents. An alum of Mysore
University with a Masters in computer applications, Mruthyunjayappa acquired
valuable professional experience with nGenera Corp, Austin (Texas), Aditi
Technologies and Visual Commerce in Seattle, prior to signing up with CMC in
2007.
Newspeg
In April, a national survey conducted by the US-based Tambellini Group adjudged CMC the #1 student information systems vendor in the US. Almost simultaneously CMC acquired the Bangalore-based IDenizen Smartware Pvt. Ltd (IDenizen), a leading developer of ERP-based automation solutions for medium and small education institutions in India.
In April, a national survey conducted by the US-based Tambellini Group adjudged CMC the #1 student information systems vendor in the US. Almost simultaneously CMC acquired the Bangalore-based IDenizen Smartware Pvt. Ltd (IDenizen), a leading developer of ERP-based automation solutions for medium and small education institutions in India.
History
Promoted in Boca Raton, Florida in 1988, CMC provides its ERP and administrative software systems to post-secondary education institutions in 18 countries. Its comprehensive ERP solution includes the first fully online student advisory system and a two-way integration of commercial student administrative systems. In 2008, when CMC acquired the Bangalore-based Talisma Corp whose CRM (customer relationship management) software is used by banks, financial institutions and business organisations in 32 countries worldwide, Mruthyunjayappa relocated to Bangalore to assume additional responsibility as chief executive of the company.
Promoted in Boca Raton, Florida in 1988, CMC provides its ERP and administrative software systems to post-secondary education institutions in 18 countries. Its comprehensive ERP solution includes the first fully online student advisory system and a two-way integration of commercial student administrative systems. In 2008, when CMC acquired the Bangalore-based Talisma Corp whose CRM (customer relationship management) software is used by banks, financial institutions and business organisations in 32 countries worldwide, Mruthyunjayappa relocated to Bangalore to assume additional responsibility as chief executive of the company.
Direct talk
“The higher education market in India is rapidly modernising and becoming customer-conscious, a development well-suited to our solutions portfolio. Institutional users of our end-to-end ERP solution in India aggregate 40 and include IIM-Udaipur, SRM University, Chennai, Educomp-Raffles and the FLAME Academy, Pune, among others,” he says.
“The higher education market in India is rapidly modernising and becoming customer-conscious, a development well-suited to our solutions portfolio. Institutional users of our end-to-end ERP solution in India aggregate 40 and include IIM-Udaipur, SRM University, Chennai, Educomp-Raffles and the FLAME Academy, Pune, among others,” he says.
Future plans
According to Mruthyunjayappa, a Campus Preparedness Survey covering 500 institutions of higher education conducted by CMC, indicates that India’s higher education sector needs to be urgently enabled by ICT (information communication technologies). “The survey identifies several pain points of higher education institutions with a critical infirmity being low faculty productivity. Our ERP solution which covers the entire gamut of institutional operations, is ideal in the circumstances. We believe there’s a huge latent demand for our ERP in deemed and private universities in particular. Helping them to upgrade their operations, and improving faculty efficiencies and learning outcomes are our prime objectives,” says Mruthyunjayappa.
According to Mruthyunjayappa, a Campus Preparedness Survey covering 500 institutions of higher education conducted by CMC, indicates that India’s higher education sector needs to be urgently enabled by ICT (information communication technologies). “The survey identifies several pain points of higher education institutions with a critical infirmity being low faculty productivity. Our ERP solution which covers the entire gamut of institutional operations, is ideal in the circumstances. We believe there’s a huge latent demand for our ERP in deemed and private universities in particular. Helping them to upgrade their operations, and improving faculty efficiencies and learning outcomes are our prime objectives,” says Mruthyunjayappa.
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