The need for accurate data
to education and national planning cannot be overemphasized. In line with this,
Sidmach Technologies joined forces with tech giant, Microsoft, to launch its
cloud solutions, signaling it plans to sign up 20,000 schools within the next
twelve months.
The Sidmach Cloud solutions are expected to assist enable
organizations and individuals improve productivity, grow revenue, reduce
operational costs, reach new markets and improve efficiency for educational and
health institutions in the country.
The cloud platform offers a host of custom solutions including
SmartSchool, School Safety Portal, APMIS together with Microsoft flagship
offerings like Office 365, Skype for business, Azure and others.
Speaking at a press conference to unveil the cloud solutions in
Lagos, Mr. Peter Arogundade, managing director, Sidmach Technologies, noted
that this is an era of digital transformation for businesses and what the cloud
platforms enables businesses to do is to operate without boundaries.
“Our SmartSchool is an effective, reliable, and affordable
school management solutions developed totally in compliance with UNESCO and
Nigerian Government education policy framework. It simplifies and improves
school administration,” the MD said.
Speaking further on another of the solutions, Mr Arogundade said
that the All-Purpose Medical Information Solution (APMIS) is an innovative,
affordable, Medical Information System which connects all stakeholders on a
single platform to harness the values that are inherent in seamless connectivity
of health service delivery, education, research and administration.
He stated that, “APMIS is more than just a hospital information
management software. It mitigates the challenges associated with information
for hospital owners, healthcare professionals, caregivers, patients,
government, health maintenance organisations, intervention agencies such as
WHO, UNICEF and other stakeholders in the health sector.”
Mr Arogundade said schools will be able to use this cloud
platform for free till the end of the current session and will only need to
subscribe from next session.
On her part, Oluwawemimo Adeniyi, director, Small Midmarket
Solutions and Partners Group, Microsoft Nigeria, noted that this is in line
with Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program, designed to strengthen customer
relationships and expand cloud sales opportunities by enabling partners to
provide direct billing, sell combined offers and services, as well as directly
provide, manage and support products and services.
The implication, according to Mrs Adeniyi is that Sidmach
Technologies owns the complete customer lifecycle, allowing it to easily sell
her Solutions and Microsoft offerings which includes but not limited to Office
365, Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 subscriptions and helping customers drive
new business value through the cloud by owning the entire billing process and
directly managing support.
Also speaking, Mr. Michael Olajide, executive director, Sales
Market, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited, said that the company was motivated
to develop the solution (smartschool) in lieu of the need for reliable data to
assist government and school proprietors to make informed decisions and plan
for the future.
According to him, “On the course of our research we discovered
there are State with registered and unregistered schools, which shows that
proper record management is paramount to assist them perform better. Thus, our
target is to register about 20,000 schools within the next one year. The moment
a school adopts the smartschool it covers the proprietor, teachers, students
and parents/guidance and the key purpose is for each of the stakeholder to
perform better”.
However, Mr. Chijioke Ekeh, chairman of the Company said that
the solution has developed in the simplest form to enable easy navigation and
enhance adoption.
Mr. Ekeh said, “In the process of putting the smartschool
solution together, it took a lot of brainstorming to come up with the simple
and effective solution. We took note of the fact that not all is tech savvy;
thus, we make bold to say that the average literate person can use the
platform”.
Sidmach also added that the smartschool solution will enable
schools focus on their core-competences while the platform takes charge of the
curriculum and some administrative responsibilities off their shoulders.
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