Is CEDARWOOD the Right Database for Your
Organization?
While CEDARWOOD
has been designed with a great amount of flexibility, it is
designed to meet the needs of a specific market -
continuing education providers who need a registration and
workshop management system. We are thrilled to serve those
clients, but we will never pretend to be the right solution
for everyone. Answer the following questions, and if you're
still with us at the end, CEDARWOOD may be for you!
Question
1 - Who are you?
Are
you a
Continuing Education Division within a
corporation?
If so,
CEDARWOOD may be right for you - go to the next
question.
Are
you a
professional organization or union
that offers courses or workshops for continuing education
credit?
If so,
CEDARWOOD may be right for you - go to the next
question.
Are
you an
Educational Service Agency
looking for a way to track the professional development you
provide?
If so,
CEDARWOOD may be right for you - go to the next
question.
Are
you a
K-12 school district
looking for a way to track the professional development you
offer as a provider?
If so,
CEDARWOOD may be right for you.
Are
you a
K-12 school district
looking for a way to track the professional development
your staff takes with you and with other providers, as well
as the hiring of substitute teachers when staff are at
those workshops?
In this
case, CEDARWOOD is not designed to meet your needs. It
is designed to track the professional development
offered by one provider, rather than to track the
professional development of one staff through many
providers. There are a few programs designed to meet
this niche.
Are
you a
K-12 school district
looking for a data management system for your students?
If so, this
is not the right program for you. There are dozens of
programs, with varying capabilities and prices,
designed to meet your needs.
Are
you a
college or university
looking for a data management system for Admissions,
Student Grades, Financial Aid, etc?
If so, this
is not the right program for you. There are dozens of
programs, with varying capabilities and prices,
designed to meet your needs.
Are
you a
college or university
that runs continuing education programs and wants to
maintain those programs in a database separate from your
college-credit-receiving population?
If so, this
may be the program for you. Depending on the
relationship between your continuing education office
and the other college offices, it may be a good match
for you, or it may be that you will be better off
using a duplicate instance of the system you have in
place for your credit students. Contact one of our
representatives for assistance.
Question 2 - How large is your organization /
continuing education
department?
Do
you have between 1 and 50 staff who run your continuing
education and will have direct access to the desktop client
of CEDARWOOD?
If so,
you're just the right size for CEDARWOOD - even if you
perform tens of thousands of registrations a year.
Do
you have between 51 and 200 staff who run your continuing
education and will have direct access to the desktop client
of CEDARWOOD?
If so, you
are larger than the majority of our clients. We would
want to migrate a sample of your data and have your
staff stress-test the system to see if it will perform
well in your environment.
Do
you have more than 200 staff who run your continuing
education and will have direct access to the desktop client
of CEDARWOOD?
If so, you
are probably too large to use a solution that does not
have an "enterprise-class"
underbelly.