TopSchool Releases TopX, Enabling Easy, Real-Time Integration Across Numerous Educational Systems

Open Platform Enables the Institution to Deploy Best of Breed Solutions for Student Services

Denver, CO - January 27, 2010 - TopSchool, a leading SaaS provider of Student Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions for higher education, today announced the release of  TopXTM, a robust set of Web services to help institutions simplify the way they manage student information.  TopX allows schools to easily extend functionality and quickly create real-time integrations across educational systems, while leveraging TopSchool's SLM system as a central hub for all student data.

"At TopSchool, we have recognized a major gap in the education market for an easy and flexible way for institutions to manage data across their systems," said Matthew Schnittman, president and CEO of TopSchool. "We have focused our solution on an architecture that allows extensibility and open integration delivered in a Software-as-a-Service model, putting more administrative control into the hands of the institution."

Schnittman continued, "We have built a core suite to manage student information and our open architecture allows a school to leverage the unique systems that make the most sense for its organization.  Instead of limiting an institution's opportunities like some closed legacy systems on the market, or even charging for API's, we want to make it as easy as possible for a school to integrate with best of breed partners and custom applications."

With TopX, seamless integration of applications across the institution means no longer being locked into a single vendor or a monolithic suite of products. Because the TopX platform is managed and supported by TopSchool, integrations are faster and maintenance costs are reduced.  TopX is included in TopSchool's SLM system, which also includes a customizable student portal, an easy-to-use CRM component, a robust SIS, and an intelligent reporting suite to manage student information from prospect to placement.

TopSchool has already created integrations with some of higher education's favorite applications, which can easily be turned on for each client institution.  In the future, TopSchool plans to launch an application exchange, enabling developers and clients to build their own components, integrate them on their own with the TopSchool solution, and begin to share and sell those applications to others in the TopSchool community.

About TopSchool
TopSchool (www.topschoolinc.com), a leading SaaS provider of Student Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions for higher education, empowers student-centric institutions to drive growth, reduce costs and meet accountability requirements.  The Company's open and flexible SLM system manages recruiting through retention, and includes a customizable student portal, an easy-to-use CRM component and an intelligent reporting suite.  TopSchool's SaaS model is cost effective, providing the latest features and functionality to all users with no maintenance or upgrade fees.   TopSchool gives institutions the power to direct their own administrative tools so they can improve programs and outcomes, and embrace growth opportunities.


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