Khalifa University releases its smart app using Ellucian® Mobile

Khalifa University Implements Ellucian Mobile to Provide a Next-Generation Mobile Campus Experience

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 18, 2013: Khalifa University, a leading educational institution in the UAE, has begun using Ellucian® Mobile to help students easily engage with the institution through a sustainable, cost-effective, and comprehensive mobile framework.

Ellucian Mobile is a single app that delivers volumes of varied content through a highly customizable framework. It is a fast, affordable, and scalable approach for institutions wanting to deliver the best mobile experience. More than 600 institutions located throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Australia have licensed Ellucian Mobile since it was launched in April.

In today's highly connected and technologically driven world, students expect and deserve, technologies that help them engage with an institution as easily as they engage with their favorite app. Ellucian Mobile, available in both English and Arabic, offers students a next-generation interface that is designed to give end-users an optimal, intuitive, and state-of-the-art viewing and user experience.

Commenting on the implementation of Ellucian Mobile, Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla, Senior Vice President of Research and Developmentat Khalifa University, said: “Khalifa University provides high quality, research-intensive education using cutting-edge technologies. With the increase of smartphones and tablets, the University has recognized the importance of enhancing its student experience by using mobile apps.”

Available for both Android and iOS, the Khalifa University Mobile app provides students with easy access to their courses, grades, and notifications while allowing them to check the University's latest news and events, as well as locating the University campuses using their smart devices. The app enriches students' experiences and helps them to cope with today's fast-paced lifestyle.

Mathew Boice, Vice President, Middle East, Ellucian, added: “We are always looking for ways to extend the value of our digital campus for our clients.  Ellucian Mobile helps Khalifa University extend its world-class services by providing convenient and engaging access to the information that the entire academic community needs. This solution gives institutions the tools to customize, brand, and extend their mobile environment to suit their unique needs, as well as providing access to essential core transactions within the Ellucian administrative systems. Only Ellucian can provide this level of out-of-the-box integration while enabling academic institutions to easily and quickly extend their reach well beyond the physical campus.”

Institutions can choose to implement an easily configurable turnkey application that can be fully launched in hours or opt to build, customize, and manage their own mobile environment. Ellucian Mobile also provides the following key features:

• Multiple-entity support that enables institutions or consortiums to customize a single application for each campus or institution
• Full customization and branding control so institutions can brand and prioritize their mobile experience
• Real-time extensibility that enables institutions to include non-Ellucian services and mobile web apps
• Cloud configuration system designed to help institutions launch a customized and branded solution in hours, without deep technical experience
• Available in six languages, including Arabic, US English, UK English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese

Ellucian Mobile supports the company's commitment to its Ellucian Extensible Ecosystem vision. A single solution spans the three core administrative systems, and its deep level of integration gives institutions the choice of surfacing capabilities unique to their institution.