Case Study: Faith Academy launches a cloud Student Information System in 6 weeks and cuts admin time by 80% with OutSystems

Faith Educational Ministries delivers new Student Information System using Amazon’s EC2 Cloud and OutSystems Agile Platform

Faith Educational Ministries (Faith Academy) is a year‑round private Christian school with multiple campuses and an online academy that serves high‑school students needing extra help. Their mixed physical/virtual model exposed major SIS problems: a patchwork of Excel files, ad‑hoc databases and an inflexible SaaS package that demanded heavy manual processing and didn’t meet their needs — and with a limited budget they needed a more open, maintainable solution.

Faith adopted the OutSystems Agile Platform and Amazon EC2, delivering the first cloud-based online SIS in six weeks (it had been budgeted for six months) and replacing the brick‑and‑mortar system in a seven‑week effort using one developer, a part‑time manager and OutSystems’ team in one‑week sprints. The result is a custom, cloud-hosted SIS supporting ~25,000 students that cut administrative cycle times (e.g., new enrollment) by about 80%, eliminated subscription lock‑in and on‑premise runtime costs, and made future changes fast and low‑cost.

Faith Academy

Dan Stueck

Vice President of IT