Educational institutions need enterprise-grade SaaS to shift from physical to digital

Competition, Complexity, Compliance, Customer Experience, and Costs- these 5 Cs explain why educational institutions need to adopt comprehensive specialized enterprise solutions, preferably SaaS

- Hemant Sahal

The Indian Higher Education sector is one of the largest in the world housing more than 39 million students across over 50,000 institutions. Since the onset of the pandemic, the education sector has seen a massive transformation in operations as well as teaching and learning processes. To make ends meet, institutions quickly jumped to ad hoc usage of technology, majorly online classes. Such temporary solutions sure helped institutions for a limited time frame but the effectiveness of such unplanned use of technology is highly questionable.

Since institutions have now learned from their experiences of over a year and with stabilized cash flows, they are now looking forward to systematic and long-term technology adoption. The make-shift solutions are expected to be replaced by more evolved SaaS platforms to lead the transition of physical campuses into a digital campus. Such SaaS platforms transform closed transaction-based IT into an open, engagement-based mobile ecosystem for administrators, faculty, and students, among other stakeholders. They support seamless collaboration between stakeholders, collapse information barriers, and provide deep insights to the institute’s leadership for decision-making to improve both quality and outcomes.

These 5Cs explain why educational institutions will adopt comprehensive specialized enterprise solutions:

Competition