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.