Essentia eKnow Knowledge Delivery Platform

Essentia eKnow (electronic knowledge now) education solutions address the many challenges to digitization and
IT enablement in public and private educational institutions across a broad spectrum of schools, colleges, universities and technical institutions. Essentia provides strategy, implementation, integration, production, cloud
services, training and support to educators, and helps them analyze their complex requirements under fast
growing and competitive environments and assists putting in place initiatives towards achieving their vision of
creating world class institutions.

Essentia eKnow introduces revolutionary new capabilities providing institutions with opportunities for expansion into new geographies resulting in cost reduction and the ability to tap into new revenue streams . Students using Essentia eKnow benet from improved learning and research capabilities and the improved ability to interact with the industry preparing them for better job opportunities in today's digitized world. The Essentia eKnow platform, when combined with the deep expertise of Essentia's customers in the field of education, creates a technology enabled education environment of international standards and paves the way to delivering higher quality education to a wider audience cost effectively and efficiently.

Essentia eKnow provides dramatic improvements across academic, administrative, research and placement processes. The challenges and barriers are many in getting staff and students to learn and actively use these processes. Achieving smooth running efficient operations is elusive due to a variety of factors. Incorporating basic technology like digitized class rooms and the use of internet in class rooms for content are relatively straightforward. Getting faculty and research staff to organize their activities and to use proven electronic teaching methods combined with using online research environments for knowledge delivery, research data collection and technical problem solving are the next frontiers that need to be overcome.

The goals of achieving consistency, high throughput, and many to many online collaborations between students, teachers, mentors and researchers is challenging. Bringing in world class experts regardless of their geography or time zone into the class rooms or research labs to deliver cutting edge education is another challenge and this can happen only through infrequent campus visits in a complete online environment. Realizing exponential value of all investments made in skilled faculty, administrative staff and systems, academic and research infrastructure and IT infrastructure happens only when all these systems are truly integrated. Essentia specializes in integrating diverse environments to deliver this untapped value from investments already made by educational institutions. World class status will be elusive with out achieving these capabilities.. Essentia eKnow is built with a revolutionary unifying architecture that provides the foundation for delivering different types of knowledge based services to all stake holders, including but not limited to, students, teachers, parents, administrators, regulators, specialist education service providers and owners. This framework provides fundamental services that start with stakeholder-centric portals which can be accessed via computers or mobile phones enabling them to learn, share, practice, collaborate, communicate, clarify, establish and follow procedures, to accommodate ever changing regulatory policies and to provide feedback and improve all essential institution processes. Implementing and following a "localized" adaptation of the Bologna process ensures best-in-class outcomes and this is facilitated using Essentia eKnow.


Examples of such innovations routinely deployed by Essentia include:

• Mobile enabling many basic data entry and information retrieval processes. Example – Taking attendance in
class using a mobile device provides accuracy, convenience and real time availability.

• Live broadcast and video collaboration is available to all students, staff, researchers and other stake holders
to hold live conversations with both local and remote participants and to speed up understanding, decision
making and achieving quick breakthrough on issues through real time interactions.

• Real-Time Intelligence and Analytics on multi-disciplinary functions across all key processes in areas related
to academia, research, administration, examination and certification.

• Site and project level content management

• Advanced banners, commerce, and dynamic cataloging

• Marketing and tracking tool integration with customizable tracking codes

• Centralized, robust framework

• Unique Ecosystem Enablement for rapid community on-boarding

World Class SAS Type-II Certified Production Environment:

• Essentia eKnow is delivered under a 'Application as a service' model through the establishment of a datacenter within the university campus that is equivalent to a SAS-70 Type II datacenter

• Essentia undertakes full responsibility for hardware, software, network and operations management including
responsibility for provisioning hardware and network, application installation, configuration, branding and
user experience customizations and testing the application using rigorous quality control processes in the data
center prior to giving access to customer

• Users only need access to a computer (desktop, laptop or a mobile device) with internet access to use eKnow.
A fully trained application support team is available to support the customer from initial trials through full
production.

Essentia was established in Feb 2007 by industry veterans with a charter to focus on online communities. Essentia
currently has over 160,000 users world wide. Essentia data centres in Santa Clara (California, USA) and Chennai
(India) are equipped to currently handle up to 300,000 students.

Essentia has recently been selected by Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai for its IT enablement and technology
commercialization initiatives. Essentia's Chennai based development organization has deep domain expertise in
Education technology delivery.