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IBM To Drive Smarter EducationPosted Wednesday, December 23, 2009 By ITVN NetworkADVERTISEMENT
IBM along with its partners Merce Technologies and Focuz announced a slew of offerings to drive smarter education in Pune. Built for forward looking academic institutions, trusts, and professional colleges, these smarter education solutions, embrace technologies such as cloud computing, open source systems, virtualization, and analytics, and help transform educational systems - making them more interconnected to access and share resources, instrumented to gather key data, and intelligent to enable innovation and smarter decision-making. There has never been a better time to make our education technology systems smarter, said Ramesh Narasimhan, Director, General Business, IBM India/South Asia.  With better management, measurement and processes, the effectiveness of school systems could be raised significantly at the existing spending levels. As part of this initiative, a Smart Education Summit an interactive session for key decision makers of Maharashtra's largest education trusts and academic bodies was recently held in Pune  to showcase these unique offerings. Pune is well-known as the education hub of Western India, and has a long tradition of attracting students and researchers from all over the country for professional education and higher research. This will help educational institutions delivering a better academic environment to their students and faculty, strengthening relationships with alumni and recruiters, enhancing brand image and differentiating themselves as forward-thinking centers of academic excellence, said Shuvam Misra, Founder-CEO of Merce Technologies. IBM and their partners have been addressing the fast changing needs of the education sector for many years. Their Smart Classroom initiative is a worldwide initiative to address these needs. These solutions drive down costs, allow efficient and effective management of the student lifecycle, protect confidential information, help in sharing of academic study material, and enable collaboration among students and teachers. All this allows the management of the institute to focus on their core management functions and helps to build a great academic environment. Through technology based in cloud computing, every student in schools, colleges and universities can access the most advanced education content, software applications, and computing and storage resources. If an education system becomes instrumentedable to capture and convey critical data, such as attendance, grades and enrollment in activitiesit can gain a real-time perspective into how a student or school is doing, where intervention is needed, and what is working across institutions and throughout their lifetimes. Comment & Contribute
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