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 From an operational standpoint, scarce resources must be deployed to not only support existing and often outdated technology systems and platforms, but to enable fundamentally new approaches to delivering services and communicating with students.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Technology leaders must support outdated legacy systems and at the same time deliver innovations around e-learning, collaboration tools and social media with limited resources.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 
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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Founded in 1982, Softtek is a global provider of process-driven IT solutions with 30 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. With 15 Global Delivery Centers in the U.S., Mexico, China, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, Hungary and India, Softtek helps improve time-to-business-solution, lower costs of existing applications, deliver better engineered and tested applications, and produce predictable outcomes for top-tier corporations in over 20 countries. Through on-site, on-shore and its trademarked Global Nearshore™ service delivery models, Softtek teams with CIOs to constantly increase the business value of IT. Softtek is the creator and a leader of the nearshore industry.
