A digital age organisation - Onward Education - has a countrywide presence backed by a strong professional management. The company, which has centres in Ahmedabad, New Delhi and Bangalore to showcase these new technologies, is focused on providing IT-enabled services for using the Internet in education, e-learning, library automation and customised solutions for educational institutions. As the CEO of Onward Education, Mr Atul Bansal, put it, "Education today works like any other corporate industry."

For students, Onward Education offers a variety of tools and services to arrive at the correct choice of course and institution for higher education within India as well as overseas. The company is positioned as a strong knowledge partner for any educational institution seeking significant value addition to its own system integration skills from constantly emerging technology driven opportunities.

At present, the company is offering an array of solutions and services including customised IT solutions for colleges and universities, advanced e-learning solutions, advanced library automation, career counselling and assistance with guaranteed overseas admissions and education portals for colleges and universities.

"Onward Education has tied up with world leaders in each of the above areas to bring the very best solutions to India - for instance, for e-learning we have a partnership with eCollege.com while for library automation, we have partnerships with ExLibris and Caspr library systems," revealed Ms Asha Pandey, director of the company. Also present on the occasion were representatives of ExLibris and eCollege.com.

The company is also launching its first portal "GraduateIndia.com" by June this year. The portal is designed to be a powerful info-tool for students to determine the best options for higher education, given their career aspirations.

In addition, the portal also aims to be the largest repository of information on over 6000 colleges and over 15 disciplines. Career counselling will further be enhanced by offering several real services from the nationwide presence of Onward Education.