BigWebApps, Inc. and Classroll.com, Inc. form strategic technology partnership to provide teachers and technicians with single-point solution

BigWebApps, Inc. and Classroll.com, Inc. form strategic technology partnership to provide teachers and technicians with single-point solution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ATLANTA, GA and SHAWNEE, OK: July 18, 2001 - Teachers will soon be able to initiate a maintenance or technical support request from the same place they manage their daily classroom functions and record keeping thanks to a partnership announcement between bigWebApps, Inc. and Classroll.com today. The partnership will provide teachers with the opportunity to launch bigWebDesk from within the Classroll.com classroom management environment.

For bigWebApps and our bigWebDesk system, this deal means we can spread our technology to a large and rapidly-growing new user base, who can begin creating and using our application to manage and control service requests throughout classrooms and districts," said bigWebApps, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steven Hughes. Additionally, well be able to provide our respective existing clients and users with a best of breed" bundled solution resulting in simplification for educators and technology coordinators.

Classroll.com already provides a comprehensive classroom management system to teachers that simplifies daily activities and record keeping and improves the educational process, while opening up new avenues for home involvement and e-learning. With the new agreement, teachers will also be able to streamline support requests through a managed communication platform and real-time support interface.

All along, our goal has been to use the power of the web to enable educators to improve learning," said Classroll.com President Ken Stith. Within the Classroll.com environment, we do that by improving and simplifying daily educational chores and managing the learning process. The addition of bigWebDesk, brings us closer to this goal by streamlining the service request process."

Stith said the success of Classroll.com has been anchored in its ability to expand the scope of education by using internet-based tools in the classroom that save the teacher time rather than consume it. But as technology becomes more and more integrated into the classroom, the need for support will increase as well, he said. When that happens, the time saved through Classroll.com could easily be consumed by inefficient support.

Because bigWebDesk, a web-based Service Request Management (SRM) system, has been proven to decrease time and cost associated with support, the cooperative offering will allow schools to head off resource management problems before they ever become an issue.

As educators around the globe quest to find maximum technological offerings and more user-friendly interfaces, the importance of innovative alliances and cooperative offerings between educational software and application providers prove to be the most effective way to meet their needs.

This alliance brings together the best of both worlds," Hughes said. With bigWebDesk, we have developed and delivered a state-of-the-art service request management solution to school districts and companies around the world and at Classroll.com, they have been able to pinpoint the perfect solution for classroom management. So, together we can be one step closer to a more complete and total offering for educators."

Both applications operate as an Application Service Provider (ASP) model, which has been proven to reduce the total cost of ownership by eliminating the IT costs associated with expensive software. In addition, hardware maintenance and requirements are greatly reduced because both applications do not require anything more than a web browser and Internet connection. Under the partnership, common logins and shared interfaces will allow the applications to operate together as one program on a singular platform.

About Classroll.com:
Classroll.com uses and ASP model to provide timesaving web applications and tools to teachers for more effective management of the classroom. With nothing more than an Internet connection, teachers are able to use their gradebook, take attendance, manage and deliver lesson plan content, track state standards and much more. The information is then automatically provided to the parents and students through a private portal with no extra work for the teacher. Their motto of more home and less work means students, parents and teachers enjoy more home involvement through use of a home computer while teachers are able to enjoy less work thanks to the time-saving applications available. Being the only product of its kind that has undergone an extensive one-year beta testing by over 600 schools and teachers across the nation, Classroll.com is becoming widely accepted as the most comprehensive, yet easiest to use program of its kind available on the market.

About bigWebApps:
BigWebApps Inc. is an application service provider specializing in streamlining and eliminating costs associated with multi layer, front office tasks and operations for K-12 Education to Fortune 100 companies. The company bigWebApps suite provides premier web-based solutions to school districts and corporate clients that streamline and eliminate legacy management and organizational tasks. With the suites customizable interface and dynamic back-end systems, bigWebApps provides current clients with cost-effective management applications for their service requests, be it technical or maintenance related, which have proven to reduce costs overall at the company and department level. The companys flagship product, bigWebDesk, gives a companys employees and their customers the ability to submit, track and find smart solutions to their internal and external service requests. Other bigWebApps applications and services include bigEventManager, bigResumeManager, bigBillingManager, bigProjectManager and other bigWeb applications.

####