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IBM enters into two-tier alliance

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BANGALORE, INDIA: IT provider IBM, announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Merce Technologies and Focuz to drive smarter education in Pune.

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Built for forward looking academic institutions, trusts, and professional colleges, these smarter education solutions, embrace technologies such as cloud computing, open source systems, virtualization, and analytics, and help transform educational systems - making them more interconnected to access and share resources, instrumented to gather key data, and intelligent to enable innovation and smarter decision-making, said a press release.

“There has never been a better time to make our education technology systems smarter,” said Ramesh Narasimhan, director, General Business, IBM India/South Asia.

He added that with better management, measurement and processes, the effectiveness of school systems could be raised significantly at the existing spending levels.

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As part of this initiative, a “Smart Education Summit,” an interactive session for key decision makers of Maharashtra's largest education trusts and academic bodies, was recently held in Pune to showcase these unique offerings.

“This will help educational institutions delivering a better academic environment to their students and faculty, strengthening relationships with alumni and recruiters, enhancing brand image and differentiating themselves as forward-thinking centers of academic excellence,” said Shuvam Misra, founder-CEO of Merce Technologies.

IBM and their partners have been addressing the fast changing needs of the education sector for many years. Their Smart Classroom initiative is a worldwide initiative to address these needs, the release said.

These solutions drive down costs, allow efficient and effective management of the student lifecycle, protect confidential information, help in sharing of academic study material, and enable collaboration among students and teachers. All this allows the management of the institute to focus on their core management functions and helps to build a great academic environment.

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