TCS iON to Launch an Integrated Cloud Based Solution for Educational Institutions
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced the Japan launch of its “TCS iON Education Solution”, an integrated cloud-based solution for academic and vocational institutions.
TCS iON provides educational institutions an end-to-end solution that streamlines operations and management across the institution and its campuses. The iON Education Solution digitizes processes throughout the student lifecycle including admissions, lesson planning, exams, evaluations and community collaboration. It provides a single interface for viewing the entire transactional history of a student from admission until graduation – from anywhere, any time and on any device.
Cloud-based iON Education Solution is highly flexible and economical, comprising a variety of modules that can be combined freely or configured with necessary functions. The modules include – amongst others – computer based testing (CBT) and a learning management system (LMS) and work in coordination to facilitate active learning in the classroom and beyond.
It gives institutes 360-degree institutional excellence by automating governance and compliance processes. It ensures faculty excellence with continuous learning through professional development. Effectively using learning analytics, it contributes to improved learning outcomes to ensure student excellence. Further, it provides a collaborative platform with industry and research connect to ensure academic excellence.
Masashi Ohno, Sales Industry Leader at Tata Consultancy Services Japan, commented that: “Japans academic sector, most notably tertiary institutions, are today experiencing drastic changes, stemming from intensifying competition due to the nation’s declining birth rate, advancements in IT and ever expanding managerial requirements. Many of these organizations also face the burgeoning costs and labor of maintaining independently developed IT systems or extensively customized packaged software, which lack the freedom and flexibility for timely modernization.”
“iON Education Solution helps solve these problems, thereby enabling teachers and clerical staff to focus on their core activities and deliver even higher-quality, advanced education,” Ohno adds.
Leveraging its wealth of technological expertise built up across the globe, TCS aims to deliver truly innovative services that will benefit students, teachers and managers of Japanese educational institutions alike.
About Tata Consultancy Services Japan (TCS Japan)
Tata Consultancy Services Japan, a joint venture established between Tata Consultancy Services and Mitsubishi Corporation, is firmly committed to supporting the globalization and business transformation ambitions of Japan based customers, leveraging the power of IT. Combining its cutting-edge IT and business solutions from around the globe, underpinned by its extensive industry insights and deep knowledge and understanding of the Japanese market, TCS Japan delivers optimalsolutions to meet the business challenges of its customers.
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPS, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 387,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 45 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $17.6 billion for year ended March 31, 2017 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India.
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