Manage the Entire Student Lifecycle
Because every college institution wants to manage all prospect
and student information in one location, we built the TopSchool
Student Lifecycle Management (SLM) system to do it. The TopSchool
SLM system manages data from first contact with a prospect through
a student's graduation. Our college student information system alternative
is fully integrated and tied into our robust TopView reporting suite.
And the best part - TopSchool continually evolves our SLM system
through functionality additions and improvements, and your school
gets to take advantage of it all.
Next Generation Architecture
TopSchool was designed using the latest Microsoft technologies -
including .Net and Microsoft SharePoint®. These technologies
provide important flexibility and interoperability benefits for
your higher education institution. Our next-generation architecture
also allows TopSchool to add new features and functionality faster
than our competitors - that were architected more than 20 years ago
-- can. We like to say: Focus on the best architecture, and the
features will come.
User-Centric Interface Design
Your web-savvy students, faculty, and staff use online
applications like Google, Expedia, Yahoo and others on a daily
basis. Why should the applications they use within your college
institution look any different? Answer - they
shouldn't. TopSchool provides a simple user interface that
makes it easy to log on and start using the student information management
system. Built by user interface designers, the TopSchool
system strives to limit clicks for all functionality. Our
commitment to a great user experience is ongoing, and will be
enhanced through the latest communication tools such as SMS
texting, social networking, and other applications your students
will expect.
Your College Institution is Unique
Leveraging next generation technologies has allowed TopSchool to
architect our SLM system so that a college institution's unique
aspects drive different configurations. We want the TopSchool
application to fit your processes - not force you to abide by ours.
TopSchool offers TopFlexTM, which allows the business
user to add, change or delete fields and change layouts, all within
a few minutes. And this difference does not end during
implementation - allowing you to continue to innovate and
reconfigure the system.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Unlike closed ERP systems that exist today, TopSchool does not
intend to create every system that your higher education
institution will need. No one company can do it all, and those who
make that claim probably offer a few strong modules and many
mediocre ones. TopSchool's TopXTM service-oriented
architecture design creates easy integrations through the use of
web services - allowing you to take advantage of best-of-breed
solutions in the market. And to jumpstart your efforts, TopSchool
has created integrations with some of higher
education's favorite applications which we can easily turn on
for your institution. This is only the beginning - in the future,
we will offer a developers' network and allow our clients to share
and sell applications within the TopSchool community.
Secure Application
Protecting your data is an imperative for the success of your
higher education institution. It is also a matter of compliance
with FERPA laws and those imposed by your accrediting body. With
built-in security and physical, application, and access controls
TopSchool has architected its system, infrastructure and systems
management processes with data security as a paramount requirement.
Our datacenters are world-class, secured facilities - with full SAS
70 Type II compliance, 99%-plus service level availability
(excluding scheduled maintenance), 24x7 monitoring, and backup
power systems to keep your data safe. The use of SSL
throughout the TopSchool solution, user authentication, role-based
security, and a continuous transaction audit trail ensure the
integrity of your data, the enforcement of your information
privacy, and your ability to track and understand every change made
to your institution's data - what, who, and when.