Sawda6There are different providers for learning solutions.docx
- 1. Sawda 6 There are different providers for learning solutions as well as services for academic institutions, companies as well as management. I have selected top three of them to be compared and analyzed on the basis of their products and services. The list includes: · Edutech · Swiftassess · Citrix Edutech Edutech is learning company where its learning solutions and services are across the learning cycles from preschools and schools, vocational centers, universities, industrial training centers and corporate and government. It has both physical and digital learning environment across classrooms, laboratories, campuses and work spaces. The main benefits include: · In medical examinations and assessment, Edutech has application known as QuestionMark perception, which is used in delivery and reporting on observational assessments. · Tutors, educators and testing professionals use this software to author, schedule and report on exams and tests done by students. · Since medicine is a critical course that needs to be taken serious in terms of teaching and assessment, the software plays an important role here as it gives real results upon assessments for evaluation.
- 2. · Edutech offers assessment consultancy as a service. · In examinations, it offers exam automation which assists clients to select the appropriate and effective tool for their organizational needs. In this case, medical schools will often relay on this since they are allowed to choose the tool that they prefer in assessing and evaluating students. · They also offer an industry standard assessment platform. · For practical sessions, Edutech offers outsourcing the examinations services for institutions administering the tests. Training of teachers eLearning Platform Robotics Team TVET Education (Products & Services of Edutech) Swiftassess Swiftassess is the best in medical assessment and evaluation. The main benefits of their services are · To uphold the examination integrity and ensure that students do not copy from each other, this program gives examiners the chance to set the questions in random order when presenting them to examinees. This ensures that examination is not compromised. · It also lets the examiners get gist of the exams before publishing to ensure that it’s correct and to standard required. · Since medicine deals with lives of people, the course needs to be administered with care and to ensure they produce quality
- 3. into the market. This software also has multiple examination questions types including multiple choices, true false, handwritten etc. this ensure that students are assessed in both aspects to enhance their skills. · Video can be used to show evidence of the practical exams done, as it went and the results for evaluations. Interactive System for K-12 institues Outcome Based Approcah to Unversities Practical tools for Vocational Learning (Products & Services of Swiftassess) Citrix This is a company that empowers businesses with mobile work spaces. The main features include · It enables people to work from anywhere to enhance mobile productivity. · Since e-learning systems need their data and information is accessible from anywhere any by anybody anytime, this company give this service while enhancing security of the data. The security against exam alter and theft thus upholding integrity of the medical course. · It is a feeder system to the above systems that are used by institutions to administer exams to students. · It provides mobile workspace suite for data access and sharing.
- 4. · More appropriate for corporate sector. · High costs of implementation. Workspace Suite Meet and Colloborate Access apps and Data Manage enterprise mobility Desktop Cloud Infrastructure (Products & Services of Citrix) Comparison among Three Top Choices 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 201120132014 Edutech Swiftassess Citrixx-axis: performance year
- 5. y-axis: development percentage As the chart shows that the Swiftassess has shown better growth in the recent years as compared to its rivals’ products and services. Edutech Swiftassess Citrix Introduced integrated technology Yes Yes Yes Growth rate in educational sectors in 2011 Yes Yes Yes Authorization and checking system to teachers No Yes No Development rate in education sectors in 2014 Yes Yes Yes Costs of products and services for educational sector Good Best Expensive Appreciable and affordable products and services for educationists No
- 6. Yes No Conclusion Swiftassess is the best to be used for the educational institutions when taking, monitoring and checking the exams is important. It is beneficial for the centre to keep track of exams happening internally because it provides the provision of huge media library is the source of great media components including videos, images as well as audio. Further, it will help the centre with the help of wide range questions type and even monitoring practicals with the aid of videos. _1478443845. _1478443941. _1478441725. _1478443368. AC1420: Week 6 Quality of Earnings Page 1 Explain the terms “quality of earnings” and discuss how management can influence earnings legally. Explain three common ways to manipulate a company’s earnings. In addition, state how you can identify such manipulations when analyzing a company’s financial statements.
- 7. Submission Requirements: Submit your answers in a Microsoft (MS) Word file. Font: Arial, 12 point, double-spaced Evaluation Criteria: Criteria Points Assigned Points Earned Did you define the term “quality of earnings” and discuss ways to influence earnings? 40% Did you explain three common ways to manipulate earnings? 30% Did you state how to identify such manipulations? 30% Comparison table between Oracle, SAP and Microsoft
- 8. SAP Oracle Microsoft Dynamics Latest technology SAP HANA; An in-memory that uses storage devices to save a copy of the data, for the purpose of startup and fault recovery without data loss. For example: A renowned food and beverages company’s representative Nestle, Mr Krunal says that they found SAP very helpful since it provides the latest technology with real-time insight and easy integration with ERP and non ERP products. Oracle 12C, capable of providing cloud services with Oracle database. For example: A famous software house head explains that Oracle is the best in providing the support to keep home-work balance by providing facilities in accessing the data in the order it was stored and manipulated. Additionally it offers a good support to handle the staff at the distance. Microsoft dynamic AX; A multilayered architecture which makes it user-friendly for anyone and can adapt to changing businesses. For example: Abhishek from Unicity International says that he found Microsoft dynamics as very helpful tool in terms of its ease in use, quality, functionality as well as simple infrastructure. He was able to use it well after the training of 2- 3 days. After sales support SAP Sales Support provides office-based personnel and field
- 9. staff with up-to-the minute information in varying degrees of detail SAP after sales support is good as per the reviews collected from various companies like Nestle etc. However they need improvement in their response time to their customers. Oracle Service Parts Planning provides improvements in parts availability and customer satisfaction Oracle strives to achieve customer satisfaction. However their customer feel stuck at time when they are unable to understand the instructions presented along with the manual. Microsoft provides toll free numbers for call by customers in case of any complain or support request. The customers of Microsoft Dynamics are highly satisfied with the customer support response time. They got the assistance in a very less time. Dashboards SAP BusinessObjects dashboard 4.0 The customers feel it easy to understand the SAP Dashboards. Business intelligence dashboard. It is considered as sophisticated in understanding. Dynamic digital dashboard
- 10. Reports tcode reports such as COOIS, CO46, MD4C The reports generated with SAP ERP is very useful as there is a large number of customer reviews that are available on SAP website which are highly satisfied with the type of reports they need. Oracle produces single query reports, mailing label reports, summary reports etc. The customers are looking for an alternative to Oracle and it can be seen from the fact that it is ranked at #642 out of companies. Drilldown reports, subreports, linked reports, history reports, detail report. An educational company in the USA using Microsoft Dynamics says that they are enjoying working with the ERP since it has a large collection of prebuilt reports which can be used after making some changes. Technical capability Strong technical support There are different sectors including food, rail and solar energy etc which are enjoying the benefits of technical capability provided by SAP. Strong technical support Oracle has strong technology and professional to provide their customers the help they need but their customers are not happy as they should be due to the sophisticated techniques they are using. Less technical support
- 11. Their technical capability is very strong but they have some limited features which makes it hard for very technical sector like nuclear and engineering to use it at a higher extent. Uptime Depends on the amount of information and size of implementation Depends on the amount of information and size of implementation Depends on the amount of information and size of implementation License fees Proprietary Proprietary There are Oracle customers which are unaware of full utilization of the system they own after payment of the Oracle fee. They use programs like Navica to check the correct usage of Oracle. Proprietary Implementation period Planned: 15 months Actual: 17 months Planned: 14 months Actual: 18 months Planned: 11 months Actual: 13 months Experience in health care Excellent since its real-time Provides integrated clinical data and service-line analysis features to ensure lower-cost high-quality care and reduced patient safety concerns Cloud data provide information among health care professionals System availability High availability
- 12. Availability is high Availability due cloud data Response time Response high but less than oracle Response is high Fairly high Customer satisfaction Preferred for better business. The customer satisfaction is good as per the reviews of Nestle and other companies using it. Flexibility and easy integration features The customer satisfaction is somewhat low like a software house head reviewed it 3 out of 5 due to lack in understanding of their hard technology. The best and most preferred by customers. Easy to adapt UI The customer satisfaction is fairly good as per the reviews of the companies using it like Madison world and Taxmann in India. My Opinion SAP would be the best technology for a health care sector. It is because it provides the best care for the patients due to its data driven as well as personalized care facilities. Varian Medical System as well as Charatte are successful customers of the SAP. It can help in collecting and understanding the clinical in
- 13. addition to operational data for making important decisions regarding the lives of the patients. It improves the communication as well as provides state-of-the-art facilities to the health care providers. It is really a cost effective solution to health care sector’s problems.