SIS, Bookstore Management System Providers Extend Partnership
Ambassador
Education Solutions, which supplies
software that helps colleges and universities deliver course materials
to
students, and Campus Management, which supplies
SIS software, have renewed
their nine-year-old arrangement that provides CampusLink Ambassador
(CLA) to
colleges and universities.
With
the product now in its third evolution as
CLA 3.0, student information is created or updated and automatically
transferred from Campus Management's SIS to Ambassador's SourceOne,
identifying
courses a particular student has signed up for and allowing the student
to
view, select and order materials using one of its ordering models
(Online
Bookstore, Auto-Fill or Brick & Mortar Bookstore). CLA 3.0
automatically
posts the purchase of any materials so that the institution can track
all
transactions, speeding up school revenue recognition as well as student
account
and invoice reconciliation.
The
goal, company officials said, is to sync
student registration information with required course materials and, as
a
result, improve communication, data sharing and expedited processes.
"Our
partnership with Campus Management provides
students with an easy and accurate way to access their course
resources, while
giving administrators the power to simplify the management of purchases
and
delivery," said Ambassador Education Solutions CIO Jordan Kaufman. "The
positive feedback we have received from our client institutions was the
catalyst for us to extend our working relationship with Campus
Management. Our
clients rely on our integration to keep operations moving smoothly and
effectively."
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Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.