A positive trend is that Higher education institutions have made and continue to make significant investments in technology in a pursuit to handle exponential growth, while handling increasing business complexity and statutory compliance requirements. However concerns do exist around use of computing technology.

Value of Information Technology: While over the years considerable progress has been made in automating manual processes, institutions are not deriving strategic value from their investments. Automation consists of disparate & fragmented systems; data is oriented toward transactional use and does not provide a holistic view or value to the organization.

Change and its management: Stakeholder expectations (students, faculty, staff, administrators) have been changing and becoming demanding. Exposure of stakeholders to social networking and web 2.0 internet technologies has created a hunger for instant access to information, rapid decision support and tools for collaboration.

Funding: Despite decreasing technology costs, computer hardware, enterprise software, IT staff still claim the biggest portions of most budgets. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction is important.

Today it is hard not to recognize the advancement that technology has brought to the world of banking system or telecommunication. Ubiquitous data connectivity is bringing about the next wave of change unleashing an opportunity for higher education segment to leap frog ahead much like the way Telecom industry did a decade ago in emerging economies.

Built with open standards at the core, KenApps Unified Knowledge Platforms are now helping more and more institutions to unlock value out of information leveraging seamless and extensible integration across various automation components.

The unified platform approach is also providing unprecedented opportunity for institutions to focus on learning outcomes and better prepare students to meet the expectations of industry and society.

Higher education has traditionally followed a collaborative approach to creation and sharing of knowledge. The growth of software communities coupled with seamless connectivity of internet and open source development approaches, has set the stage for a paradigm shift in technology led enablement. KenApps collaboration led approach is not only bringing institutions together for much higher levels of synergy but also paving the way for seamless academia industry partnership.

KenApps is a next generation higher education enablement solutions company providing a digital platform for collaborative management of institutions. With a vision to democratize quality education making it accessible, affordable and socially responsible, KenApps team's endeavor is to apply innovation to cost effectively enrich education. The company's wide range of solutions built on open architecture provide a range of highly modular and configurable set of tools to cater to a diverse and complex set of use cases right from individual institutions to large universities with hundreds of affiliated colleges with several hundreds and thousands of students. Built for rapid scale up the platform is designed for next generation students who are growing up in a connected world where transparency, openness & collaboration are a way of life.