"Two New England-area undergraduates have pooled their academic capital and raw business instincts to develop and market a software platform for a campus administrative area they believe is woefully underserved: student activities administration. Friends Mark Greene, from the University of Rochester, and Aaron Severs at Wentworth Institute of Technology, in Boston, said they went to work on a business plan for the software after being surprised at the lack of tools to administer student activities they both were interested in.
The result is SA Link, a ‘complete enterprise system for student activities department administration.’ The software underwent beta testing in April 2005, and after a pilot at Wentworth, Version 1.0 will be released this fall. ‘We found that there were a lot of nice products out there for course management, career services, and alumni relations in particular,’ said Severs, co founder of CollegiateLink with Green. ‘What amazed us, however, was the lack of offerings for the co-curricular side of things. Campus unions, student leadership, and athletics were particularly in need of quality software.’
Added Greene: ‘In general, we also found that software for colleges and universities was higher priced and of lower quality than that offered to businesses. We felt that affordable technology should be available that is effective, easy to use, and feels like it’s actually been updated since the ’90s.’ SA LINK will be offered in two packages. SA LINK Enterprise can be purchased as a customizable software application, ready to run on any standard Windows server. SA LINK TurnKey is a subscription service where CollegiateLink provides the server and system administration."
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