In Focus: Higher Education
Higher Education institutions are facing dramatic changes fuelled by rapid advancements in information technology. The changes in information technology impact both the academic and administrative sides of the institution. To remain competitive, educational institutions will require a thorough understanding of current technology trends and issues to exploit changing enrolment patterns and be able to deliver technology-dependent offerings such as mobile student services and e-learning. And as students are driving the transformation of collaboration and social networking applications, open source software is coming to play an ever increasing role.
Accordingly, technology-enabled redesign of administrative processes is quickly becoming a major influence in the changing landscape of higher education. All stakeholders are requesting greater integration of data, improved collaboration tools and seamless connectivity so that any change to an upstream system doesn't negatively impact on downstream users.
Higher Education stakeholders have additional needs:
- Administrators - want to provide internet access to large numbers of students simultaneously, and desire faster and greater information regarding enrolment, performance and budgets in order to analyse efficiencies and effectiveness, as well as wanting the ability to respond to policy entities, such as boards and university officials
- Faculty - desires enhancements to learning and want greater access to student data, discipline specific trends, greater research capabilities, and the ability to perform collaborative research with colleagues in other institutions
- Students - desire greater access to administrative and support services, and expansion of traditional service approaches such as the development and delivery of online or distance education
- Policymakers - desire greater, faster, and more reliable information for use in developing funding levels, and realistic and feasible policies
Industry specific solutions
Intelligent Pathways offers the latest developments affecting the education industry, with specific focus on solutions that support the entire student lifecycle, from offer through to graduation and beyond.
By transitioning our clients onto web self-service applications and distributed computing environments, data becomes integrated so that they are able to shift from being departmental focus to enterprise-wide focus - meaning that institutional offices, administration and libraries are seamlessly connected and geared to scale up, and support future growth.
Our Web Services and SOA expertise together with solid knowledge of academic applications such as Student1, Calista, Trim, Research Master and Razor's Edge enables us to work with tertiary institutions to help them respond to change and plan for a strong future in the physical and online learning space.
Our Education clients:
Intelligent Pathways has assisted the following clients with integration solutions in a SOA environment:
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – This top Australian university with global connections commissioned Intelligent Pathways to undertake a significant integration project to develop SOA governance, standards, processes, and procedures as well as the development of a common Web-based experience across QUT's back-end systems. Read more
In Focus: Fleet management
In today's competitive market, your fleet must perform better and faster than before, which is why managing your fleet is an increasingly demanding role. Fleet management responsibilities have become multi-faceted and diverse to include management of assets, mobility and logistics, facilities management, human resources, accounting, travel management, and the deployment of personnel and products.
The fleet manager's traditional job of "administering" the fleet has also evolved to include asset management, life cycle costing, and cost accounting; and more recently there has been a growing emphasis on vehicle remarketing, fleet portfolio management, and residual value analysis.
Faced with added pressures of rising fuel costs, increasing compliance requirements, environmental awareness, changing consumer preferences, and the skills shortage, fleet managers are looking for new technology to solve their business problems.
Industry-specific solutions
Intelligent Pathways is focused on helping companies involved in the fleet management industry to enhance customer satisfaction, streamline efficiencies and reduce administrative burden through the use of innovative technology solutions.
Our web-based workflow management tools make use of the complete Business Process Management Framework (BPMF) which expedites and simplifies many of the vehicle support functions that have historically been labour intensive and time consuming.
Using the Oracle BPEL Server, our fleet management solutions have been specificially created for clients in the fleet management industry to help enhance their customer experience and deliver administrative efficiency with the minimum of paperwork.
Our fleet management clients
Intelligent Pathways has assisted the following clients with work-flow solutions in a SOA environment:
- QFleet - the Queensland Government's provider of vehicle leasing and fleet management services, and Queensland's largest fleet operator with approximately 13,000 vehicles.
- StateFleet - the NSW Government's provider of vehicle leasing and fleet management services with a vehicle fleet of over 25,500.
- SG Fleet - Specialists in commercial fleet management and leasing solutions. SG Fleet's parent company, Super Group, is one of the top 40 industrial companies listed on the JSE Limited.