For a quarter of a century, edulog has been the leader in supplying innovative and cost-effective transportation software, consulting services, and service solutions to school districts. edulog has combined the power of its industry leading software with the power of the Internet to develop a transportation solution specifically designed for districts that want a transportation software solution combined with our highest level of customer service.
With our ASP approach, the software is hosted on edulog's servers. This means that your district's IT personnel do not need to maintain the hardware or software. This represents a significant savings in personnel costs. Because the software is hosted at edulog, there is no need for the district to purchase additional computer hardware to host the software. Any computer with access to the Internet will work. If you can see a Web page clearly, you will also be able to see and use the ASP solution. All you need to access the software is a computer with an Internet connection. By maintaining the software on edulog's servers, we can ensure that the system is always running and available to the district.
ASP also allows you to share access to the system with any authorized district personnel at no extra cost. This opens up new and exciting opportunities for sharing information. For example, the district secretary and transportation director can both access the software. The system allows the district secretary and the transportation director to work together because the student and transportation data can be easily shared. (This is especially helpful when the bus garage is located far away from the district office). Some districts choose to have the secretary in charge of certain parts of the transportation operation-for example she may print lists of students' pick-up and drop-off locations to be able to answer parent's questions quickly and help with keeping the student transportation database up to date. With ASP, she can log on to the system from any computer with an Internet connection.
Many districts do not have enough staff the answer the phone in the transportation office at all times. For example, this could happen if the transportation director has to drive a bus route at the last minute. With ASP, other appropriate personnel can access a student's transportation information and answer questions quickly. This way parents can get their questions answered at any time. This approach can also be very helpful during peak season in the transportation office. edulog will help you with giving staff the appropriate access to the system.
After years of working with districts of all sizes, we know that many don't have the money or staff to successfully operate a transportation software solution. To meet this need, edulog created the pupil transportation industry's first ASP (Application Service Provider) solution.
edulog's ASP approach lets you choose the level of service that's a best fit with your district. If you want a total turnkey solution where you access the software through the Internet but edulog does all the day-to-day work of routing and scheduling students and buses, we can give you this. Or you can decide to have edulog do all the initial implementation work and then have us maintain the software and data on a secure server while you manage your transportation plan.
- 24/7 access via any Internet connection (the office, home, the bus garage, administration building, etc.).
- No server storage/maintenance at the district.
- Data back-ups performed by edulog.
- Protection from power failure and natural disasters.
- A user-friendly work space-no technical experience needed.
- Peace-of-mind: no need to worry about "how it all works," upgrading software versions, system crashes, database maintenance, and security issues.