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2024 Year in Review🚀 As 2024 comes to an end, we want to express our gratitude to all our partners and clients for this incredible year. Together, we achieved remarkable growth: 🔗Delivered 14 new projects, strengthening our expertise and portfolio. 🔗Embraced new technologies like Salesforce and React Native. 🔗Expanded into new markets, including starting collaborations in the UAE 🔗We’ve been listed in Top 1000 Companies in 2024 by Clutch 2025 promises to bring even more challenges and opportunities, kicking off with business trips to Poland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. While we’ll reveal all the details soon, we’re also excited to share that we’ll be actively growing in Sweden next year! Thank you for your trust and collaboration in 2024. Here’s to even greater success together in 2025!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Sending our warmest wishes of peace, joy, and love to you and your family this holiday season. May this Christmas fill your hearts with happiness, and may the New Year bring exciting opportunities, success, and countless cherished moments.

Honored to Be Among the Market Leaders! We are thrilled to share that Lionwood.software has been recognized as one of the top providers in app development by Feedbax! 🚀

EdTech is, in many ways, a unique industry – not only does it cater to very diverse crowds of learners, from preschoolers to CEOs and academics, but it’s also a motley crew of both giant corporations and startups who do the catering. We’ve seen successful startups like Duolingo gain ground in the industry, and yet our corporate learning tools are often Microsoft or Google-based, so in the end, who will impact EdTech more? Is it worth it to start an EdTech business now? Are corporations just “scavenging” innovation from startups? Not really. Here’s our perspective, based on what Lionwood has done so far in EdTech, with the NIT project and some more.

Dear friends and partners! This Thanksgiving, we at Lionwood.software want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to you. Thank you for your trust, collaboration, and the opportunity to grow together. Your support and partnership inspire us every day to deliver our best and push the boundaries of innovation. As we celebrate this season of gratitude, we wish you and your loved ones a holiday filled with warmth, joy, and cherished memories. May your Thanksgiving table be surrounded by laughter and your hearts filled with happiness. Here’s to more shared successes and meaningful connections in the future🤞🏼 With appreciation, The Lionwood.software Team🤍

There’s an interesting interplay in EdTech between the business-oriented and the formal education sides. There’s been a post from Lionwood about the tech-y side of the question (it’s in the comment) – but what’s interesting is, companies who secure collaboration with state educational institutions gain a lot in terms of insight and user bases. Cases are multiple, from Coursera to Khan Academy and beyond. Lionwood’s own NIT platform is endorsed by several governmental institutions, helping the product team identify the growth areas faster than otherwise. In short, it’s worth the effort. What is that effort, though? Here’s how to ensure your EdTech product can be on the official roster: ▶ Make sure your software addresses the goals of formal education. This is not just about the possibility to add curriculum-oriented courses or exam preparation modules. The social aspect, like administrative and anti-bullying features are also important. ▶ Privacy and security matter a lot! While with commercial, independent course maker-driven platforms, people get what they signed up for, anything that deals with institutions will demand compliance, and that’s something to invest into early on, and not when your product is up to scrutiny. ▶ Start small, pilot mode. There have been many monumental programs that ended in disappointments when faced with the classroom/routine realities. Pilot projects with a couple of schools can allow you to test the waters first and refine the product. Some governments are actually eager to favor such pilots. ▶ Building advocacy. Joining educational technology associations, attending policy forums, and engaging with key stakeholders can help a company advocate for its tool. Building relationships with educational policymakers, school administrators, and government representatives can lead to support and partnerships. ▶ Pinpoint problems and demonstrate measurable outcomes based on the pilot. Is it something like the SAT score? STEM competencies? Other metrics that the target educational system is interested in? Focus on that. So grants are not everything, and not everyone gets the grants. What you’ve just seen above are just the 5 must-haves, but they are pretty much half of the success.

Головна подія української IT-освіти року від Асоціації IT Ukraine @ITUkraineAssc – Synergy. IT Business & IT Education – повертається! 28 листопада Synergy. IT Business & IT Education об’єднає представників вищих навчальних закладів, експертів галузі, власників освітніх бізнесів, педагогів та учасників освітніх спільнот. Цього року подія проходитиме онлайн, тож кожен бажаючий зможе долучитися до 9 годин інтерактивного та насиченого контенту прямо з дому. Цьогорічна головна тема – стрімкий розвиток українського EdTech-сектору, що формує майбутнє IT-індустрії. Учасники отримають можливість зануритися в інноваційні рішення, навчитися у лідерів галузі та налагодити важливі ділові контакти для професійного зростання та розвитку бізнесу. Програма створена для дослідження новітніх тенденцій в освітніх технологіях і сприятиме розбудові ефективної мережі партнерств. Програма конференції:  ✔️ Освітні інновації та кроссекторальне партнерство як стратегічний пріоритет  ✔️ EdTech як двигун освітніх змін: світові тренди та українські перспективи  ✔️ Освіта майбутнього: презентації передових EdTech-продуктів та ініціатив  ✔️ Реінтеграція ветеранів у бізнес: можливості та виклики адаптації  ✔️ Управління талантами та конкурентоспроможність: шлях до подолання кадрових викликів та безперервного навчання Долучайтеся до події, що визначає розвиток IT-освіти та технологічного майбутнього України! 🌐Реєструйтеся на офіційному вебсайті: https://lnkd.in/da6q25Qe (участь безкоштовна) Створімо майбутнє разом, де освіта, технології та бізнес об'єднуються для сталого розвитку країни! #SynergyITU #ITUkraineAssociation

Following up on our tradition of sharing some tech news from the previous month, here’s what caught our attention in October. Of course, we’re especially interested in #EdTech and #supplychain, but we couldn’t but notice how #AI is proliferating along these and other directions. An intriguing story of how personalized eLearning is actually implemented at charter schools (and what challenges there are): https://lnkd.in/dq9U6kM2 MathGPT, an AI tutor in math (including calculus) is not out of beta: https://lnkd.in/dFvD48FE Warehousing at Auchan Luxembourg is now done with Skypod robotics, processing up to 915 orders per hour: https://lnkd.in/ejwjU6CW Autonomous delivery (including AAVs) seems to start booming within #transportation market: https://lnkd.in/dsqj4axJ Shazam for fashion: another AI-powered startup with an interesting vision: https://lnkd.in/d9-Mh_K5 What’s really encouraging is that businesses are now not simply hyping on AI, but actually finetuning its use to receive tangible results alongside promises. That’s where evolution actually happens! Make sure to subscribe to our blog to see more industry-specific analyses coming in this quarter #technews #AI #edtech #logistics 

While the Salesforce suite of products is mostly associated with, well, sales and customer interactions in the “purely commercial” industries, there are entire areas that can benefit hugely from its implementation that don’t fall under that category. 💼✨ Education is a good example: there’s much more to it than just the learning process. Leveraging Salesforce Service Cloud to orchestrate the organizational aspects of education can really lift the administrative burden off institutions, as recent projects show. 📚🏫 Here’s what Lionwood’s Salesforce specialists say Service Cloud can do here: 🔹 Student support and case management: helping with admissions, financial aid, course registration and the like – all in time and with fewer resources used. 🔹 Faculty and staff collaboration: the administrative aspect of educators’ work, like documents, scheduling meetings, most HR questions, etc. 🔹 Incident management on campus: streamlining the reaction to situations when equipment or facilities are out of order or unavailable, and addressing safety concerns if any. 🔹 Admission tracking: Service Cloud can help keep track of applications and enrollment, with timely follow-ups and automated workflows. 🔹 Alumni engagement: students often need channels to keep themselves in the know about what’s happening, like resources, events, and organizational details. With Service Cloud, it’s easier to create a community and manage it. 🎓 With proper setup, including the use of the automation possibilities in Salesforce, there’s much less clutter – and that’s well worth the effort. We’ve seen a growing popularity of Salesforce-based solutions in education and are ready to offer our expertise as Salesforce Administrators. 🚀 #Salesforce #Education #EdTech #ServiceCloud #StudentSuccess #HigherEducation #AdministrativeEfficiency #Automation #TechnologyInEducation #SalesforceAdministrators