Business
Collaboration with Microsoft
Collaboration with Microsoft.
About this update from Tribal Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9714D Tribal Group PLC 06 February 2018 \n\n06 February 2018\n \nTribal Group plc\n(\"Tribal\" or \"the Group\")\nMicrosoft and Tribal collaborate to transform the education sector\n \nTribal Group, a pioneering world-leader of education software and services, today announces that is collaborating with Microsoft to enable the organisation to expand the number of educational institutions and students that can access its Student Information Systems (SIS).\n \nTribal is the market-leading supplier of Student Information Systems and services within the UK, Australia and New Zealand, offering SITS:Vision for Higher Education institutions and ebs for Further/Vocational Education. Since 2016, the company has been developing a next generation, cloud-based solution - Tribal Edge - and has selected Microsoft Azure as the underlying platform. \n \nTo support the proactive development of Tribal Edge, Microsoft's Azure application development team will 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. As a result, Tribal will be able to provide a single engagement solution for students in all educational establishments, to enhance student experience and underpin their learning success.\n \nAs part of the agreement, Tribal will offer both SITS:Vision and ebs in the Azure marketplace as cloud ready solutions. Microsoft will also promote the Tribal portfolio in new geographical markets.\n \nBy taking an Azure-based solution, Tribal's customers will have access to a full range of complementary applications such as ERP, CRM, HR and other innovative solutions provided by Microsoft and its partners, that can be simply and easily integrated with the Tribal solutions.\n \nIan Bowles, Chief Executive Officer, Tribal said \"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. 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 ...