Is our building different from others?
Yes absolutely! While many promise - we can deliver. Our program is mathematically driven, using algorithms, running off a fast binary file system. We would sometimes spend weeks just to improve one algorithm by a few percentage points – saving you precious time.
We are not a database drive program
Most scheduler programs currently, are database driven, which, by their very nature, are slow in their core data access. Imagine your student information system is like a warehouse; it is big and stores a lot of information in all the right places. Now imagine a master scheduler is like a delivery truck having to go about town gathering different kinds of information. Which do you think would be the best - having a full warehouse move around town, or a quick, easy-to-manipulate, lightweight, little pickup truck? Obviously the pickup truck will be the best way to go. In the same sense, this scheduler is compact and fast, being able to go right ‘around town’ in a very short time.
Web based scheduling is of course so much slower, since it is limited by external service speed. To give you a typical example, when the program builds, it analyses 60 000 students per second. Now you can see why the other two types of systems are slow and not the best platform from which to build a schedule. The reason why most applications are data or web based, is because it is easy to do. Now this is good enough for data base application for administration, but not when it comes to the number crunching of master scheduling.