SchoolDude Blog: SchoolDude.com Surpasses 4,000 Client Mark in Nine-Year Period

Market-Leading Software Company Achieves Client Milestone, Continues Record Growth

CARY, N.C. (June 15, 2009) — SchoolDude.com, the nation’s leading provider of on-demand operations management solutions for educational institutions, announced today that it is now serving more than 4,000 clients across the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, Asia and the Dominican Republic. Since its inception in 2000, SchoolDude has steadily maintained its rapid year-to-year growth rate, adding nearly 700 customers in 2008 alone.

With this solid growth, SchoolDude.com has continued to establish itself as the education market’s leading provider of on-demand operations management tools for IT, business and facility operations. With educational organization clients ranging in size from less than 50 to more than 270,000 students, SchoolDude is dedicated exclusively to meeting the unique requirements of educational operations professionals with easy-to use, integrated solutions that extend asset life, improve service, reduce operating costs and relieve capital budgets.

“SchoolDude continues to redefine the market of applications that manage assets in educational organizations,” said Kent Hudson, SchoolDude CEO and co-founder. “Our mission as a company is to assist educational professionals in better managing operations and saving money, which in turn helps make them more successful. This great milestone further fuels our efforts to help America’s schools save $1 billion by 2010, and we fully believe we can achieve this goal.”

The consistent growth experienced by SchoolDude has continued to attract the attention and recognition of organizations nationwide. Last year, SchoolDude was again named one of the fastest growing private companies in North Carolina’s Triangle area. In recent years, SchoolDude has also been selected as a noteworthy organization on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest growing private companies in the nation and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. In addition, SchoolDude was named the Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year at the 2009 Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service, demonstrating how the company’s commitment to faithfully serving its client base continues to spur growth, as well as high levels of client satisfaction.

Educational agencies have also taken note of SchoolDude’s market leadership, as well as the operational successes achieved by educational organizations using SchoolDude’s technology solutions. In 2008 alone, SchoolDude signed agreements to provide affordable operations management solutions to the state of Arkansas’ 245 school districts, as well as members of the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO), the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities (FIICU), the Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI), and the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (IAICU).

Over the past six years, SchoolDude has also partnered with the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association (TICUA), the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO), the Philadelphia Area Independent School Business Officers Association (PAISBOA), the North Carolina School Boards Association (NCSBA), the Michigan School Business Officials (MSBO) and Michigan Association of School Administrators (MASA), the New Mexico Public School Facilities Authority, the Delaware Department of Education, the South Carolina Energy Office, the Colorado BOCES Association, as well as the Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies (AEPA) and various other purchasing consortiums. Seeking to provide integration of event management solutions and other support services processes, SchoolDude partnered with WhippleHill Communications in 2008, fostering a continued improvement in technology for private schools. A similar partnership with Datatel, Inc. allows colleges and universities to realize increased savings and operational efficiencies with the integration of facility management solutions and financial management technology.

SchoolDude’s products for educational institutions include solutions for work order processing, technology incident management, IT asset management, facility usage scheduling, capital planning, field trip management, utility tracking, preventive maintenance and inventory management.

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