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Specialized child care administrative software packages may offer the right combination of breadth, convenience, and ease of operation to enhance your center management. For 14 years, Child Care Information Exchange has been providing guidance on the selection and use of such products. This year, we take a broad look at recent questions from the field.Is this a good or bad time to purchase center management software?
I think this is one of the best times ever for such a purchase for three reasons. First, things are more stable, with fewer center management software companies entering and departing the market. Since a potential buyer wants to have confidence that the company will remain in business to provide service and upgrades, stability is a critical variable in this industry. Second, many companies have recently made substantial improvements to their product lines, and have had a year or two to debug these updates, leading to substantially better software. In general, brand new customers are getting up to speed quickly, and customers migrating from DOS to Windows-based products are moving forward reasonably well. Third, Y2K has come and gone and the effects were much fewer than feared.
What does center management software offer that is unique?
Such software ...