Enabling the New Age of Education:
Leveraging Cloud and Agile to Transform IT Capabilities

SUMMARY

Educational institutions ranging from public and private universities to for-profit organizations face daunting challenges as they compete in a rapidly changing environment. From an operational standpoint, scarce resources must be deployed to not only support existing and often outdated technology systems and platforms, but to enable fundamentally new approaches to delivering services and communicating with students. In many cases, strategy that leverages the combination of cloud-based applications and agile development methodologies can help educational institutions address evolving needs and drive the transformation required.

 

MAIN TAKEAWAYS


Educational institutions face a rapidly changing competitive landscape.

Technology leaders must support outdated legacy systems and at the same time deliver innovations around e-learning, collaboration tools and social media with limited resources.

Cloud-based applications and agile development methodologies can help educational institutions maximize results with limited resources.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tomas Alegria    linkedin.png
Tomas Alegria is a Solutions Architect Manager at Softtek, specializing in agile and cloud deployments. He has more than 20 years of industry experience.

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