Destiny featured in UCEA InFocus article entitled: Destiny Launches Web-Based C.E. Management System

September 1, 2004

At UCEA’s 2002 Annual Conference in Toronto, Destiny Solutions CEO Shaul Kuper announced his company’s intention to build a Web-based system that would manage all functions of a Continuing Education unit. The aim was to build a system that would manage registrations, curricula, accounting, marketing, and CRM, and be used by staff, students and instructors. Today, two years later, Destiny Solutions has delivered on its promise and can point to two successful implementations.

The University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, Toronto-based Destiny Solutions first customer, completed the final phase of a four-stage implementation of the system in February 2003. The solution - called OneCE - replaced legacy business systems and streamlined operations, according to Mary Cone Barrie, Director of the School of Continuing Studies.

“Before this integrated system was put into operation, we had units at the school that operated in different architectures,” Barrie notes. “We had units that were entering data into records that couldn’t be read by other units, and we had units that were re-keying data that had been keyed by somebody else, but into something that couldn’t be shared.” Most important according to Barrie, the School could not grow without adding staff.

Today, Barrie’s U of Toronto staff is down to 35 from 50 four years ago, and the operations have been streamlined and improved. “The staff are getting more important work done - they are not dealing with run-of-the-mill, routine clerical [tasks] as much as they used to. . . There is a lot more expanded intelligence in a place with fewer people.”

“The system has proved especially advantageous because it operates 24/7, 365 days a year. During U of Toronto’s 2003 Christmas break, 261 students registered over a two-week period when the office was empty. The school took in $166,000 (Canadian) and nobody was there,” Barrie says.

In July, Destiny completed its second OneCE implementation, at the University of California Santa Cruz.

About Destiny Solutions Inc.
Destiny Solutions Inc.- creators of the first strategic CE business solution - is focused on delivering enterprising technology solutions to the Continuing Education industry. Their educated solutions enable customers to manage business operations in more efficient and innovative ways.