Infosys is migrating Victorian Catholic schools to the Amazon Web Services cloud, in a project that covers 200,000 students in almost 500 institutions.
The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria announced today that its new "school-administration-as-a-service" platform will be hosted in Australia by AWS.
"This new platform will reduce high infrastructure costs and reduce manual reporting and administration," said Stephen Elder, executive director of Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. "This will free staff up to focus on what matters most in schools – educating the children in our care."
Elder said that the "pay-as-you-go" model would not only save costs but the cloud infrastructure would allow for future innovations such as teacher-student collaboration and self-service portals for parents.
Schools currently manage administration in a "largely manual and decentralised fashion", according to the CECV.
The new AWS-hosted centralised administration platform – named Integrated Catholic Online Network – would "standardise and automate activities such as financial reporting and records management", and that this would cut labour, improve accuracy and speed up reporting.
Service provider Infosys will implement and manage both the software-as-a-service ERP system as well as the infrastructure-as-a-service, on behalf of the 486 primary and secondary schools in the CECV network.
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Infosys' ANZ country head, Jackie Korhonen, said that the emergence of domestic hosting and high security has promoted the cloud to a serious option for the government and education sectors.
"Now that these services can be provided in a highly secure, domestically hosted environment, cloud has moved beyond ‘buzz’ to solving everyday business problems for organisations like CECV," said Korhonen.
CECV assured stakeholders that the AWS-hosted system would "meet or exceed" national and state standards for data security, citing compliance with guidelines such as "Whole of Victorian Government Security Management Framework" and "Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000 Information Privacy Principles".
Infosys is an Indian multinational consulting and outsourcing company that employs more than 165,000 staff. AWS is the cloud infrastructure offering from Amazon, in competition with services like Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer.
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