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Who are the major substitute absence management software companies, and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
Hello and thank you for asking wonder for the major substitute absence management software companies.
I didn't understand from the question whether you were inquiring upon general work management software, or particular to education, but based google query you provided, I can see it is related to education. Thus, to answer your question I searched for comparative reviews of the best school administration software, I then preselected the best software for absence and substitute management, and compiled the list below. In it, you will find the top 5 products that meet your criteria, and their SWOT analyses.
Pricing: $990/year for unlimited users for the first school. $590 a
Functionality Overview: Based online,
Primary User Base:
Size of Market share: New product, no reviews yet.
Strengths: Absence analytics, built particularly to track absence and substitute management. Simple and intuitive. Teachers and administrators can post new jobs online in seconds. Plus, teachers can request their favorite substitutes and block others.
Weaknesses: Other aspects of school management. Android version coming soon.
Opportunities: Discover a potentially great software people have not reviewed or heard a lot about.
Threats: Potential waste of time and money.
Pricing: $5.00/month
Functionality Overview: Appears as one of the top apps in the search, regardless of the industry you are interested, as they offer over 400 business apps, and the opportunity to customize your own app according to your needs.
Primary User Base: From small businesses to Fortune 100 companies
Size of Market share: hard to assess, because of their cross-business nature.
Strengths: 100% customizable, cheap and has a minimum of 2 users, and no maximum.
Weaknesses: It has not been particularly designed for educational purposes, and might miss some of important functionality because of this.
Only available for mobile platforms, not desktop.
Opportunities: Possibility to create a customized new app that works according to your particular needs.
Threats: Potential waste of time and money, if there is a ready-made alternative out there.
Pricing: $60.00/year/user
Functionality Overview: A S-a-a-S based educational ERP solution using innovative Cloud technology for high end performance and unbreakable security, for the schools
Primary User Base: School districts, schools and Higher Education institutions with 100-1000+ users
Size of Market share: Controls the market in India
Strengths: Users review it as one of the top applications in its field.
Weaknesses: Installed on Windows, and not available for Mac or iOS.
Opportunities: Controls the Indian market and is looking to break into western market as well.
Threats: None apparent.
Pricing: $995.00/one-time/user
Functionality Overview: Admissions, scheduling, grades, attendance, accounts, financial aid, housing, career services, web portals, Title IV support, Tap support and default, contact, library, housing and client management
Primary User Base: Post-Secondary Schools, financial Aid, Student Information, School Administration.
Size of Market share: over 400 installations of AS3. On premise and Hosted versions available.
Strengths: Over 30 years in the business of post-secondary administrative software.
Weaknesses: Installed on Windows, and not available for Mac or iOS.
Opportunities: Work with software that has stood its ground for 30 years.
Threats: No mention of security features.
Pricing: N/A
Functionality Overview: 300+ core features and powerful integrated solutions that automate your school administration, classroom management, communication with the home.
Primary User Base: K-12 Schools
Size of Market share: Used in more than 4,000 schools.
Strengths: K-12. Web-based, so it doesn't have a problem with either Mac or Windows. Rated top 1 by customers from all options. Rated top 2 by users from all options. Mobile reliability.
Weaknesses: Not good for higher education.
Opportunities: none in particular.
Threats: none in particular.
To conclude, if all you are looking for is software that can manage absences and substitutes, I would go for the first option, because it is designed specifically for that, and it offers analytics that can help you track your teachers and also decide in advance how many substitutes to hire. If you are looking for more sophisticated features together with this management, you may want to choose one of the other options.
Below, you will also find three additional links to other platforms like ReadySub that didn't make the cut, but that were also considered.
I hope this information is useful, and please keep on asking Wonder!