Latin American and Caribbean Universities Increasingly Turn to SunGard Higher Education for Help with New Challenges

MALVERN, Pa., January 5, 2009 – Higher education institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasing their investments in SunGard Higher Education’s technology solutions, consulting, and system administration services as they look to improve efficiencies and serve new generations of learners.

New global challenges in education, an economic recession, and ever-increasing competition have led a growing number of institutions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to turn to SunGard Higher Education for support.  These top institutions include:

• Anhembi Morumbi University and INSPER (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa), in Brazil;
• San Sebastián University and Andrés Bello University, in Chile;
• Pontificia Bolivariana University, in Colombia;
• The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago (COSTAATT), in the English-speaking Caribbean
• Escuela Bancaria y Comercial, in Mexico
• SENATI, and Universidad del Pacifico, in Peru.

In the Latin American region, SunGard Higher Education serves customers in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico, as well as the English-speaking Caribbean.

According to SunGard Higher Education, a leader in solutions and services dedicated to improving the performance of universities worldwide, the increase in demand for technology solutions at institutions for higher learning throughout Latin America and the Caribbean has been very notable.

"Higher education institutions are showing a renewed drive throughout the region to strengthen their positions against global competition, and help sustain growth during difficult economic times,” said Juan Albelo, vice president, Latin America at SunGard Higher Education.  “Technology is one of the most effective measures in helping them improve performance and increase access to education.”

Institutions around the world continue to choose SunGard Higher Education to help improve overall effectiveness across the campus. The company’s newly announced Open Digital Campus strategy presents new opportunities to help higher education institutions deliver technology solutions faster with flexible, extensible and modular components.  In addition to traditional on-premise implementations, alternative delivery models, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosting, composite applications and on-demand services will provide more flexible options to suit an institution’s unique needs and preferences. 

About SunGard Higher Education

SunGard Higher Education serves colleges, universities and foundations in 40 countries worldwide.  Through its Open Digital Campus strategy, SunGard collaborates with the higher education community and provides software and services to help institutions find better ways to teach, learn, manage and connect.  www.sungardhe.com

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies.  SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector.   SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times.  For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com

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