MaluSoft: Simplifying the Operations for the Stakeholders of Education Industry

Sarath Shyam
Pradeep Kumar, Director MaluSoft
In this era of technology and cutthroat competitions, it would not be wrong to say that the Institute Management Software serves as a backbone for any educational institution. A premium player in the software and solutions market, MaluSoft has developed an innovative product named LearnersMate to help all the segments - schools, colleges, coaching institutes and various other training institutions. LearnersMate, a state-of-the-art software system to manage the daily activities of educational institutions, is both cost effective and customizable as per the user's requirements. Using this application, four type users - Administrators, Teachers, Students and Parents - can communicate each other without any hassles.

Most of the parents who have school-going kids carry a Smartphone in their hand. They will be happy to receive regular notifications related to their kid's marks and grades, overall attendance, examination schedules, portions, syllabus, assignments, fees due and so on. Going a step forward, parents will be delighted if they can send messages to the school management and teachers regarding their kid's absence, marks and grades with couple of taps on their Smartphone. A teacher's life will be so much easier if they can manage Class timetables, Portions and Examination Schedules using their Smartphone and communicate with parents and students regarding the same through a common mobile or web application. It will be also an added advantage if the same application helps the teachers to create their own tasks such as external tuitions, personal meetings, doctor appointments, bill payments, and setup reminders, which will help them in their daily activities. For the administrators of an education institution, there is no better satisfaction than having a foolproof technology solution, where they can automate various operations including Student & Fee Management, Attendance Management, Examination Management, Human Resource Management, Time Table Management, Salary Management and Transport Management.


"LearnersMate automates all key processes of an education institute and interfaces the end-to-end lifecycles involving Management, Staff, Teachers, Students and Parents"

LearnersMate, developed by an 18-year-old software solution firm, MaluSoft, does everything that mentioned earlier. In fact, LearnersMate as a whole package comprised of a backend web application integrated with a mobile app, offers much more than that and it is both cost effective and customizable as per the users' requirements. Pradeep Kumar, Director of MaluSoft, says, "We are committed to participate in the education space as a provider of end-to-end services in the realm of strategy and pervasive technology enablement. LearnersMate proves to be a significant tool, which assures an educational institution to improve its academic processes and takes the pedagogy to newer levels. It is a versatile platform for education institutions where Management, Teachers, Students and Parents can have collaborative interaction." LearnersMate also has a unique version for coaching centres, where the users will be coaching centre management and trainers.

Founded in 2003, MaluSoft has worked on several projects ranging from desktop applications to .net enterprise applications. TradeSoft (an Inventory Management System integrated with Financial Accounting), LandSoft (TranSoft) (a desktop/ web based Land Transport Application developed to manage the day-to-day operations of Land Transport companies) and FreightSoft (a desktop/web based Shipping and Freight Forwarding System developed to manage the day-to-day operations of Shipping and Freight Forwarding Industry) are few flagship projects of MaluSoft. "Although, most of our clients are in the Middle East, our development process happens at the Bangalore office where we have team of developers who are experts in finding cutting-edge, cost-effective software solutions for clients regardless of the industry," shares Pradeep.

As software solution provider, Pradeep and his team are always looking for new and challenging avenues to expand the company's offerings further. LearnersMate is a result of one such exploration. Pradeep explains, "We were approached by a school to develop an institute management system for them. After successfully implementing it there, we have now developed it into a fully-fledged web application integrated with a mobile app. Many additional features were added later on to make it a complete package for all the stakeholders of education." LearnersMate automates all key processes of an education institute and interfaces the end-to-end lifecycles involving Management, Staff, Teachers, Students and Parents. It effectively takes care of the information, automation and decision support systems of students, parents, faculty, staff and administrators.

However, MaluSoft has gone an extra mile here, making LearnersMate much more than a run-of-the-mill Institute Management System. The application makes private tutor searching easier for students who are in need of extra classes for some specific subjects. "LearnersMate has many unique features for coaching industry. Tutors from all over the country can register here and students will be able to communicate with them through the application. Once the agreement is made between the tutor and the students, live classes can be conducted using a different channel," claims Pradeep. Using LearnerMate, a private tutor can setup multiple institutions where he/she works. On the flipside, the institution can also setup this application to monitor the activities of the tutors they hired. This will help them to track the working hours and payments due to a tutor.

As LearnerMate has been ideated, designed and developed by the in-house technology experts of MaluSoft, the company is able to customize the product as required by the clients. While, the application is ideally suited for large and/or branded process driven institutions such as residential schools, private universities and professionally managed B-schools/engineering colleges, many small institutions can also benefit from its low cost affordable solutions. "As a software developing company, we have worked with organizations of all sizes from diverse industries and we have the right team and the right skills to handle any development projects from start to finish," pinpoints Pradeep.

Now, let us admit the fact that an Institute Management Software is not a trend, but a necessity. Considering the fierce competition in the educational sector and the rapidly expanding online gateways, the requirement for a comprehensive Institute Management Software has grown exponentially. As a feature-rich software system that can streamline the entire operations of an educational institution by connecting all its stakeholders, MaluSoft's LearnerMate has the potential to become the first preference of numerous top tier schools and educational institutions.

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