Colleges, students, campuses, and the high education industry, in general, has undergone drastic changes over the last decade, especially since the pandemic, which saw schools and college close their doors for months in 2020. Consequently, the issues and challenges college administrators and different departments face have been made unnecessarily more complex due to rapid digital adoption and outdated on-campus management systems. Consequently, colleges are unable to keep up with the influx of data and data-related issues that require more powerful and sophisticated digital solutions.

This is where AMSA Connect’s IRM platform comes in to do more than just maintain digital attendance and performance records. Using this innovative solution, you can digitalize and centralize every on-campus process in the student lifecycle from enrollment to engagement, retention, and graduation.

Using the platform, you can also authenticate, extract, and streamline healthy flow across every department and use the insights to solve different 3 data-related issues most colleges face, which we’ll talk about in this post.

The Importance of Improving On-Campus Management Systems in the Modern Age

Colleges use on-campus management systems to manage and integrate processes from different departments. The end-to-end software solution is specifically designed to digitize and digitalize operations from attendance marking to performance tracking, invoicing, logistics, and curriculum management. The idea is to use one master solution to encompass all individual solutions and automatically streamline data flow from all activities. Since colleges are dealing with even more data and digital tools than the last decade or pre-pandemic times, traditional iPaaS solutions aren’t powerful enough to give colleges a 360-degree view of their campuses with real-time access to data. Modern software solutions require superior integration and API networks to maximize data integrity and prevent data-related issues. A campus management platform should effectively cover every aspect of the student lifecycle to bridge the communication and information gap among teachers, students, administration, and the faculty.

Using an IRM Platform to Solve 3 Data-Related Issues Most Colleges Face

1.     Integration

Every college has several departments, such as administration, admissions, marketing, and campus maintenance. Many colleges have different faculties spread across acres of land, and even though every department shares the same real estate, they operate independently, meaning they have their data streams. Integrating data across different departments is one of the top data-related issues most colleges face, even with many digital solutions in the market. Unlike most platforms, an IRM platform offers powerful APIs that enable seamless integrations with a range of solutions with customizable analytics. This way, you can customize the analytics experience and review specific record information via heat mapping during the data transit.

2.     Self-Service Tools and Data Visualization

One of the biggest issues most departments face is calling their IT teams anytime something goes wrong or superiors when they need to make a decision. An IRM platform allows you to extract, deduplicate, and centralize data automatically, so you can optimize decision-making and even diagnose issues without IT intervention.

3.     Security and Privacy

Privacy and security are some of the biggest concerns for most industries in the new normal. For colleges, information about each student and their families must be not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. For years, this has been a technological and management issue but not anymore. An IRM offers more comprehensive security solutions than the ones found in traditional iPaaS and integrated SaaS solutions. Therefore, it can optimize security with HTTPS and TLS 1.2 to secure every API endpoint and connection, especially during dataflow, when data is most vulnerable. Lastly, it offers several contingencies to campuses in emergencies and ensures availability at all times.

Bottom Line

At AMSA Connect, we aim to resolve the most recurring data-related issues most colleges face every day to optimize on-campus management. We believe that maintaining data integrity is the key to optimizing the student lifecycle. It starts by ensuring that every department is equipped with a modern platform that can easily manage complex integrations and data threads.

If you’re ready to get on board the change wagon, get in touch right away and try out our one-of-a-kind IRM platform.

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