Provost Virtual Student SIS growing in popularity

SANTA CLARA , CA - August 8, 2006 - Provost Systems has reported that its Virtual Student SIS system has been picked up in three more states.

The company has revealed that its role-based SIS web service, Virtual Student, is being custom-fitted for three new clients.

"We're excited about the momentum that's growing around Virtual Student," said Anthony Kim, CEO of Provost Systems.

"What we're seeing is that online / hybrid-online distance learning organizations are maturing, and that their needs are expanding as enrollments grow. There's also a consensus that our product most closely fills these needs."

Provost's extensive, modular Student Information System was designed expressly for the online environment, so it comes as little surprise that schools and universities should find value there.

What is surprising to Provost Systems, however, is the rapidity with which word is being spread about their product.

"The Virtual Student SIS system is scalable, both in its functionality and in its pricing," said John Shepherd, Director of Marketing at Provost Systems.

"We're in dialog with several K12 schools who are interested in having a scalable foundation in place, so as to absorb growth without the growing pains that many other organizations have experienced."

Today, many online schools and universities are experiencing growth rates of 25% to 50% year to year. As schools factor these growth rates into their administrative models, they look more closely at which SIS system they'd be comfortable using, not only today, but five or more years from now, when manual workarounds can no longer be sustained.

"Our system seems to be the one they'd design if they had to design one for themselves," Kim said.

Provost Virtual Student is a role-based SIS web service that grows with organizations as they grow, providing enrollment, course management, student-to-course management, student-to-advisor management, grade management and many other services, each integrated to the whole, and tier-priced to be affordable. Provost Virtual Student integrates to Blackboard Learning System, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, Front Range Heat and other systems.

About Provost Systems

Provost Systems pioneers the education technology landscape by providing administrators, professors and students streamlined technology to efficiently track progress of students and their institution's resources. The technology is designed specifically to benefit virtual and hybrid schools allowing educational institutions to assess and measure student utilization or records and services. Provost Systems is currently used at such schools as Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, Primavera Online High School, and Southwestern College. Provost Systems offers the following products: Provost Pulse, Provost Grade XL and Provost Marks.

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