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Industry Sector - Solutions and Experience
IRW have worked extensively in both the public and private sectors, and from multinationals to SMEs. We are large enough to cope with your needs, and small enough to care, and respond quickly.

Proven SharePoint and CRM Expertise in Education

We can provide your organisation with proven and effective systems based on intranet, SharePoint portal, CRM and VLE platforms, for most areas of Education.

Recent clients of IRW in the Education sector include:

The Lakes College (West Cumbria)
The University of the West of Scotland
University of Central Lancanshire (UCLAN)
Napier University
Trinity & All Saints, University of Leeds
Coatbridge College
Adam Smith College
Forth Valley College
Skills Development Scotland

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IT Solutions for the Education Sector

We work with Universities, Colleges and Independent Schools to deliver effective, next generation solutions that aid workflow and collaboration, and add value.

Our latest education solutions rage from SharePoint VLE’s fully integrated with intranets and extranets and CRM systems to market your products effectively. We also specialise in providing the reports and information needed in the organisation, and web development for student facing aspects such as enrolment and course booking – a range of solutions to the specific needs in education.

We appreciate you want to effectively manage lesson plans, disseminate teaching resources to classes, manage the whole examinations process, and manage the approval of expenses claims. Crucially, our solutions enable you to have the next generation of VLE – fully integrated with your web portal, staff intranet, and extranet.

We offer a range of solutions based around Microsoft’s proven platforms, ideally suited to the education sector, and offering you the ability to share information securely around your organisation, enabling much improved team working.

Dynamics CRM for Colleges

Today's market demands the best tools for effective course marketing and management, and our Dynamics CRM 4 solutions for Education provide these. IRW have worked with a range of HE and FE institutions including Adam Smith and a College of Business, to deliver CRM based solutions. We have also worked with private and charity/NEP sector training providers.

Lead and opportunity management of interested students and delegates
Account and contact management
Course and resources management
Forecasting and sales analytics
On-line course booking facilities
Integration to other existing student records systems, VLEs and finance/HR systems
Offline and mobile device access
Quick access to course products, pricing and quotes

Learn more about our Microsoft Dynamics CRM Education systems.

Microsoft SharePoint for Education

This industry leading platform has been used by IRW in conjunction with several of the above systems. SharePoint is being widely adopted in education and you can benefit from improved employee productivity, streamlined business processes and workflows, as well as elimination of data duplication.

IRW have a great deal of experience in deploying SharePoint in the Education sector (recent projects with the Lakes (Cumbria), Coatbridge and Adam Smith Colleges).

To learn more about the Microsoft SharePoint platform, visit our SharePoint section.

Recent IRW Systems projects have delivered the following capabilities to education clients:

Integrated intranet & web presence with SharePoint LDK and VLEs
CRM system for the marketing of short courses to industry
Business intelligence and reporting systems
Risk assessment and security consultancy
Web strategy and marketing consultancy

No company can give you greater assurance to deliver the solutions you need - we have been delivering multi award winning solutions to clients since 1987, and we employ an experienced, Microsoft certified software development team. Such skills and reliability means Microsoft have consistently awarded us their exclusive Microsoft Gold Partner status.

Discover how IRW can provide the answer for you. To find out more about how IRW can deliver solutions for your institution, contact us via enquiries@irw.co.uk, or phone us on 0141 840 6860 (Scotland/North), 0207 873 2268 (South).