Global education software and services provider Tribal Group is collaborating with Microsoft to enable the organisation expand the number of educational institutions and students who can access its Student Information Systems.
Since 2016, Tribal has been developing a next generation, cloud-based solution — Tribal Edge — and has announced it has selected Microsoft Azure as the underlying platform.
Ian Bowles, chief executive, Tribal, said to support the proactive development of Tribal Edge, Microsoft’s Azure application development team would work with Tribal to accelerate the creation of new functionality, enabling the rapid development of an enhanced cloud-based platform and the conversion of the current functionally-rich applications of SITS:Vision and ebs to a cloud environment.
According to Tribal, as a result it would be able to provide a single engagement solution for students in all educational establishments, to enhance student experience and underpin their learning success.
{loadposition peter}“We are excited to embark on this new, strategic collaboration with Microsoft and believe it will quickly reap significant benefits for our mutual and prospective customers,” Bowles said.
“With Microsoft’s support, we will rapidly deliver Tribal Edge and improve the offering to our existing customers, providing new student engagement and superior student experience functionality across all our solutions, and also allow significant enhancements to other provider’s solutions.
“Microsoft is a clear leader with the breadth of its cloud offerings. That coupled with a focus on education made Microsoft the obvious partner for our next generation cloud offering. Working with Microsoft, we will be able to offer a host of new, complementary solutions to our extensive education customer base.”
Ian Fordham, director of Education, Microsoft UK, said, “Jointly, we will be able to offer a significant advantage to education institutions that puts students at the heart of what they do, with technology that enables access at any time, from anywhere.
“This collaboration will truly deliver on the potential of cloud and mobile solutions to enhance the learning experience for all. We are looking forward to delivering exceptional value to our joint education customers.”