SoftwareSuggest Unveils its first research report on School Management Software

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• SoftwareSuggest Unveils its first research report
  on School Management Software
• SoftwareSuggest is Indias largest software
  discovery recommendation platform. We provide
  free consultation on software, and help SMEs them
  select the right software. As a part of our
  business, we collect customer requirements, which
  when analysed can serve the industry with deep
  insights.
• Keeping the same in context, we are introducing
  SoftwareSuggest insights. In our first research,
  we have profiled the school management software
  industry and have answered the following
  questions based on our data.
• What features buyers look for in school software?
• What is the budget of school management software
  buyers?
• Preferable type of software- web based VS the
  installation based?
• Geographical spread of school management software
  buyer?
• Who is the decision maker?
• Spread of software purchases over the year?
• What were the features customers looked at while
  purchasing the school management software?
• There are several important factors which
  prospective buyers investigate for a smart school
  management software decision. Here are some of
  the top factors considered while purchasing
  school management software-

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• First Time Buyers Vs Customer Upgrading their
  Software
• 20 of the customers were existing users and were
  looking for an upgrade. We found following
  reasons for upgrading the software
• Customers were not satisfied with the service
  from smaller players and wanted to move to
  software companies focused on school management
  software
• Their software did not have the latest features,
  and wanted to move to complete ERP system,
• 80 of the customers were the first generation
  buyers looking to solve a long-standing problem
  with new technology.

Web Based VS Installation Based
Software Currently, there are more installation
based users then web based. For new purchased, we
found 59 were indifferent between web based or
installation software, whereas 11 of users
wanted to go with SaaS based software and 20
with installation based software. Here is an
infographic to help you select the right the
right school management software.
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What is the budget ? Schools and Institutes who
go with installation based software look at
spending between Rs 10,000 to Rs 2,00,000 .
Majority of buyers (60) preferred the budget
upto Rs 50,000.
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For the SaaS, budget flows from Rs
7/student/month to Rs 15 student/month. Buyers
found SaaS as cost efficient and user friendly.
Majority of SaaS based users 42 prefer the
budget upto Rs.7/Student/Month.
Size of School in terms of number of
students Largest group of software buyer where
school with around 1000 students. They formed 32
of the requirements we received. The table shows
the strength of school in terms of students that
came looking for school software.
Number of students Software buyers ()
Below 200 12
200 500 27
500 1000 32
1000 2000 16
2000 5000 9
5000 4
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Software Buyers Geographical Spread Maharashtra
is the state with maximum number of buyers (12)
for school software management software. The
other stages with higher number of software buyer
were Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
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Do Seasonal time affect? The answer is yes, it
does effect. The software sales are around the
time of admissions. Eventually it decreases
during midterms and then starts increasing during
final terms.
As we know school admissions generally takes
place from June July but for the sake of
better precautions school do buy the software
from earlier stage i.e. from the end terms
(March). You can see the highest purchase rate of
buying school management software in March. Also
the sales goes down around October. Whos
shopping for School Management Software? We
found mainly three types of people who are
generally involved in taking the decision to
purchase the School Management Software-
Management, Principals and IT In charge or
administrators.
The report has been generated from the data
collected by my team, do write us comments or
email us with suggestions on the report. Find
the list of top school management software with
software demo video, comparison reports,
screenshots, features and many more available to
help you select the right software. Source
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