There are major forces that are driving Education focus today – the move to a “student centric learning” standardized measurements, eLearning and funding. Although, these trends continue student, economic and business expectations continue to rise – although the needs of the past continue. The realities of our evolving educational institutions is that more responsibility and higher expectations comes at a cost and taxes and tuition don’t necessarily cover.
The solution to this dilemma is to create more efficient educational institutions, with technology playing a leading role in reducing costs, increasing services and streamlining education. BCG Systems, Microsoft, and Microsoft Dynamics provides a foundation to help schools and colleges tackle the most difficult challenges and optimize their biggest opportunities.
Many of the challenges and opportunities in education can be summarized in a few major categories. People, technology, students and economics. These areas are key drivers for educational institutions to deliver quality end efficient educational services, address changing regulatory and political climates and increase operational efficiency.
BCG Systems, Microsoft, and Microsoft Dynamics can play an important role in helping education organizations achieve their missions, through the use of technology we can together deploy solutions to meet an ever changing world.
It is important to understand that Microsoft Dynamics provides a very broad offering of applications and software systems, covering everything from financial accounting, to human resources, and reporting capabilities, to CRM, and Education specific functionality. All of these applications are tightly integrated to keep Education organizations running efficiently. We all know that public sector financial management needs are different than that of commercial businesses. They require a system to handle transactions with fund accounting general practices. Accountability to budgets makes it necessary for the accounting solution to manage encumbrances and be able to report those encumbrances on a Statement of Activities report showing the fund balances and appropriations. Many funding sources are derived from grants. The ability to track these monies and report the allocation of the funds is critical to ensure future awards. Microsoft Dynamics GP built to bring all of these requirements into one tightly integrated solution offering.
- Budgeting / Planning
- Financials
- Human Resource Management
- Reporting & Office Integration
- Fixed Assets
- Encumbrances
- Fund Accounting
- CRM
- Grant Management
- Project Tracking
BCG Systems and Microsoft technologies can help you:
- Streamline Budgeting Processes and Manage funds proactively
- Automat Grant Management
- Integrate Information and Improve Operational Efficiency
- Simplify Reporting and Management Metrics
- Ensure Integrity of Data
- Utilize Portal Technologies to become more “Student Centric”
- Become more efficient maximize the utilization of Human Resources
- Leverage the Microsoft Platform, Business Applications and Productivity Tools
Education Resources
Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Education
Microsoft Dynamics GP for Education
