Pearson School

Pearson is a global education, media and publishing group, represented by market-leading businesses such as Longman, Financial Times and Addison Wesley

Caters to a range of educational products— From pre-school to high school, early learning to professional certification

Pearson's curriculum materials, multimedia learning tools, assessment and testing programmed help educate more than 130 million people worldwide

• Pearson products are present in over 50,000 schools of the 100,000 schools in the US. In the UK, 10,000 schools of the total 20,000 primary schools use Pearson Products

Need

Pearson has a business model to acquire existing schools in India; put own expertise and resources to offer world-class education at an affordable price. Acquired schools had varying degree of complexities and characteristics based on their traditional way of operations. To standardize process, practices, policies with effective control, monitoring and planning; Pearson needed a system in place to connect all schools and manage remotely

Solution

eSSMS A Sonet's proprietary solution in partnership with IBM

Benefits

• Help and guide implementation of effective standard operating practices
• Central Data Management of Students Life Cycle-enquiry, registration, admission, fees to TC
• Generates flexible reports to get insights of students/staff life cycle
• Bundled with Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution offers the Sync engine capabilities for real-time information accessibility at HQ level helping an effective control and monitoring

India success story of Pearson Schools as on date

• Single window administration of school chain in-line with Compliance and regulatory requirements
• Fiscal accountability to students, parents, funding sources, and oversight agencies
• Strong competitive Standing
• Enhanced transparency, productivity & control
• A dynamic platform to standardize processes and reporting

Managing the skill development and training needs of employees + Community Educational Programs using a single solution

Ras Laffan,Qatar Petroleum, Ministry Of Internal, Qatar

Client Introduction

Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the Qatar Ministry of Interior (MOI) have established the Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College (RLESC) to deliver training courses in Qatar and the MENA region under a signed agreement for Qataris wishing to pursue careers in the company and the Energy/Industry sector

Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), a member of the Texas A&M University System, is responsible for delivering Pro-Board certified, as well as non- certified training at the RLESC

Various training and skill development programs include such as

• Academic, English Language and Vocational training programs to secondary school graduates for QP technical and clerical jobs
• Preparing Qatari secondary school graduates for degree study programs in Qatar, UK, USA, Australia and Canada by joining the Academic Bridge Program (ABP)
• Training employee-level staff (ELS) to enhance and develop their performance standard as part of their career progression
• Arranging English language courses for employees and trainees at all levels. Customers​ of QP English courses also include employees from subsidiaries and affiliated companies as well as a good number of organizations, companies and ministries in Qatar

Need

QP needed a web-based user interface that is "easy to use" solution— to handle the management of different processes/ programs/participants/infrastructure involved such as Enrollment, Sales and Marketing, Student/Trainers/Teachers profiles, design courses, certificates/document generation, Library, Audit Trail, accommodation, transport, etc

• Allow a high degree of customization and modification at the user interface level, without the need to change the underlying schema or source code
• Provide reasonable rapid response for data input or reports and queries
• All software, hardware and databases to be hosted in data center within QP, Doha

Solution

Sonet's eSCOP a proprietary solution in partnership with Infoventures

Benefits

• An automated solutions offering students, faculty & administration easy access to relevant data
• Integrated multiple departments and streamlined processes with tight control and management
• Raised transparency, productivity and control