Century Consultants Adds
ASP Solution for its Star_Base School Suite®
Use of Secure Outside Servers Eliminates
Data Management Headaches for Many Schools
Lakewood, NJ – June 22, 2009
– Century Consultants, ltd. , an ASM Research
Company, (Century) is pleased to announce the addition
of an ASP solution as an option for its Star_Base School
Suite®. This option will provide increased functionality
and flexibility for any district, small, medium or large.
Century has selected OpSource™, the leader in web operations,
as the company to deliver their ASP solution. OpSource™
delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications
for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications,
millions of users and billions of transactions supported
daily.
“Adding an ASP solution allows districts the flexibility
of choosing the best financial model for them to take
advantage of the full array of features in Star_Base®,”
said Bob Ginn, General Manager, Century Consultants, ltd.
“By outsourcing the technical aspects of managing a database,
districts can focus on teaching and learning. Districts
will also be able to lower their investment in hardware.
And to complement our Star_Base On Demand™, we will offer
a Subscription Pricing Model which more and more districts,
especially those below 5000 students, are finding desirable
to help them meet the financial challenges of today. This
offering will complement our traditional License Pricing
Model.”
Star_Base School Suite® offers a comprehensive web-based
student information solution tailored to meet the needs
of individual school districts. Star_Base streamlines
and simplifies record keeping, information gathering and
entry. Administrators, teachers, counselors, parents and
students can access information anytime, anywhere. Star_Base®
affords educators and administrators unprecedented power
and ease of use in managing and maintaining school information
with best in Student Information System Software.
The addition of OpSource On-Demand increases districts’
options on effectively managing their data needs. A comprehensive,
award-winning Web operations solution, OpSource On-Demand™
enables Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web companies
to deliver their applications and services quickly and
securely over the Web. Going far beyond full-featured
managed hosting, it includes the application management,
compliance and business services that are necessary for
on-demand business success.
“OpSource’s goal is to help companies harness the power
of on-demand technology and create innovative solutions
for their customers,” said Richard Dym, CMO, OpSource.
“With Star_Base School Suite®, Century Consultants has
done just that for the education marketplace. We are pleased
to work with them to securely bring their powerful software
to districts of all sizes in the years to come.”
By adding the ASP option, districts that are not large
enough to manage their student database onsite can cost-effectively
add the exceptional technology of Star_Base School Suite®,
and enhance their data driven decision making. Districts
will have a full virtual team of people available 24/7
to meet their needs, freeing up the time of the technology
team. They will also realize better reliability and eliminate
the need for hardware required to run the platform in-house.
About Star_Base School Suite®
Star_Base School Suite® is an integrated, web-based student
information management system entirely tailored to the
needs of individual school districts as well as state
departments of education. All stakeholders (educators,
parents and students) benefit from the exceptional technology
offered. With a scalable centralized database, all 22
modules, including gradebook, are combined to form a single
seamless program that is user friendly and secure. Through
the Portal feature, parents/guardians and students have
real-time access to grades, attendance, assignments (both
upcoming and past due), discipline and more. Since the
data is on-line all the time, information is both timely
and accurate. Entrance to Star_Base® via a standard web
browser enables authorized users access to all of their
information from anywhere at anytime. Century offers its
Star_Base School Suite® along with proven project management,
data conversion, on-site training and ongoing support.
With years of experience in the education industry Century
guarantees a professional, prompt, cost efficient implementation.
For more information, please email marketing@centuryltd.com.
About OpSource
OpSource™ delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web
applications for on-demand companies, with hundreds of
applications, millions of users and billions of transactions
supported daily. OpSource On-Demand™, the leading Web
operations solution, is defining how Web-based software
is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application
delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in
and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and
services necessary to deliver applications over the Web.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has Web
application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore.
For more information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net.
About ASM Research
ASM Research, Inc. is an employee-owned company with a
30-plus year history providing IT systems integration,
program management, information security and assurance,
healthcare / medical management, and educational / training
solutions to Federal Government and public institution
clients. For more information please visit www.asmr.com
About Century Consultants. Ltd.
Since 1977 Century has been committed to providing educators
and administrators progressive technologies designed to
increase operational efficiencies and improve the quality
of education. As a leading provider of student information
software solutions, Century was one of the first companies
to introduce student administrative software packages
to the K-12 education community. Headquartered in Lakewood,
New Jersey, Century has always understood that technology
was not the only driving force behind school and district
operations. Parents, educators, administrators and even
government agencies are fundamentally concerned with one
ultimate goal - finding better ways to teach children.
Century's student information management software removes
many of the instructional and administrative obstacles
that stand in the way of making that goal a reality. We
empower our customers with all of the necessary information
they require to make data-driven decisions. For more information
please visit www.centuryltd.com.
