The Kuali Foundation Announces General Availability of Kuali Ready

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Kuali Foundation is pleased
to announce the general availability of Kuali Ready, a service that supports
continuity of operations planning for higher education. It is now fully
available as a community-source, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
Delivered via a flexible, subscription-based model, Kuali Ready eliminates the
need for users to buy, deploy, or maintain an on-premise software installation.
In return for an annual subscription fee, the service is provided by affiliated
hosting institutions through educational networks. Simply subscribe, and an
instance will be established for your institution. You can begin using the
service right away.

Released to partners and early-adopters in April 2010, Kuali Ready is currently
in use by more than fifty colleges and universities in the United States and
Canada. By utilizing the service, institutions of higher education become better
prepared to sustain critical operations, including teaching and research, when
confronted with a disruptive event of any type (e.g. flood, fire, criminal
activity, technology failure, etc.). With a very low subscription cost and short
deployment time, it offers customers an attractive and affordable solution to
develop, track, maintain, and update continuity plans.

“With our innovative SaaS-based solution and flexible subscription model, we are
reducing barriers to entry, minimizing complexity, and providing a service that
helps facilitate the continuance of the higher education mission. As a result of
the support and collaborative efforts within this community, the Kuali Ready
project has achieved a significant milestone and delivered a service that
satisfies an essential need,” stated Gianni Carlo Contardo, Project Manager for
Kuali Ready.

Built by higher education for higher education, subscriptions to Kuali Ready are
obtained through the Kuali Foundation. For more information about Kuali Ready,
go to: http://www.kuali.org/ready

About The Kuali Foundation

The Kuali Foundation is a growing non-profit consortium of universities,
colleges, businesses, and other organizations that have partnered to build and
sustain open-source software for higher education, by higher education. Kuali
software is designed to meet the needs of all sizes of institutions, from
land-grant research universities to community colleges. The members of the Kuali
Community share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for
their software requirements. Kuali software is released under the Educational
Community License. http://www.kuali.org

Media Contact: Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director of the Kuali Foundation, at
jfoutty@indiana.edu or (812) 345-3948

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SOURCE Kuali Foundation