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BEST helps you make smart decisions streamlining your Institution processes to achieve its strategic goals.At present, Educational Institutions are living in a competitive marketplace due to fast-paced changes in the Education

environment and are constantly exploring ways to optimize their resources and to increase their productivity.

Enhancing students and academic staff satisfaction, efficiently managing timetables and reducing costs are just some

of the challenges faced by Institutions in the strategic planning process.

Bullet Education SuiTe is an integrated combination of software products which ensures your Institution will overcome

these challenges, providing business insights to transform complex processes that are being performed manually or

with unsuitable systems into automated and optimized processes.

Bullet Education SuiTe enables Institutions to solve complex business problems assessing the outcomes of decision

alternatives and uncovering better options, finding new opportunities to decrease cost.

Bullet Education SuiTe can help your Institution to:

• Increase efficiency and productivity;• Enhance student and academic staff satisfaction;• Increase academic quality standards;• Achieve a competitive edge.

Bullet Education SuiTe (BEST) is an innovative solution that provides a set of tools to make an impact on the Educational sector. As a result of nearly 10 years of continuous improvement and development, BEST is a reliable and tested solution.

Implemented in almost 80% of the major Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, our software has dramatically improved the process of timetabling, scheduling and resource management across all the Institutions we work with.

(BTTE) Bullet TimeTabler EducationAutomatic and optimized generation of timetables.

(BC) Bullet CalendarManagement of schedules, events and resources, through a decision support system.

(BBI) Bullet Business IntelligenceManagement and diagnose of the most important KPIs of an Educational Institution.

(BI) Bullet InteractiveWeb management of summaries, attendance and other useful information.

(BEP) Bullet Exam PlannerAutomatic and optimized generation of exam schedules.

(BCA) Bullet Classroom AllocatorAutomatic and optimized allocation of classrooms.

Bullet Education SuiTe includes the following 6 products:

Bullet TimeTabler Education (BTTE)Automatic and Optimized Timetabling Generator

Bullet TimeTabler Education automatically generates timetabling solutions. This user-friendly software fully meets the timetabling needs of any Educational Institution.

It combines and evaluates several objectives according to the interests of the Institution, optimizing timetables for academic staff, students and classrooms.

Features• Automatic generation of timetables for each academic term;

• Customization of specific time constraints for academic staff, student groups, classrooms and modules;

• Prioritization of each objective, according to the Institution needs, when generating and optimizing the timetables;

• Quickly obtains efficient solutions, through powerful algorithms.

Benefits• Superior productivity gains: Bullet TimeTabler Education solves a

week or month-long task in a few minutes;

• Optimized management of timetables and resources;

• Increase motivation and satisfaction for both students and academic staff;

• Relieving human resources for other productive tasks;

• Possibility of obtaining spare rooms to allocate external events, generating additional revenues;

• Elimination of typical errors, such as clashes, in resource allocation.

Bullet Calendar (BC)Events and Resources Manager with Decision Support

Bullet Calendar is a decision support system, which enables the daily management of all activities in the Institution (lessons and occasional events).

It works as a schedule that controls resources occupation (academic staff, student groups and classrooms), communicating with all the remaining BEST applications.

Features• Ability to import timetables and exam schedules, generated by

BTTE, BEP and BCA;

• Efficient management of resources (academic staff, student groups and classrooms);

• Creation of new lessons, exams and other events;

• Event management: date alteration, modification of the associated resources, among many other options;

• Visualization of possibilities and limitations when changing events;

• Clashes control;

• Fast Web publishing of timetables or automatically through e-mail.

Benefits

• Flexible agenda, with easy parameterization;

• Efficient daily management of events and resources through a decision support system;

• Real-time information about the occupation of the resources;

• Reduction of errors;

• Great flexibility and efficiency in changing events at any time.

Bullet Business Intelligence (BBI)Key Performance Indicators Dashboard

Bullet Business Intelligence provides, in real time, diagnosis of your Educational Institution performance. At present, Educational Institutions seek to optimize their resources and reduce costs.

Bullet Business Intelligence is an indispensable tool for any Educational Institution, providing access to relevant metrics, allowing you to manage your resources more sustainably and efficiently.

Features

• Intelligent graphical metrics;

• Resources occupancy rates;

• Deviations from the planned academic staff service;

• Quality of students and academic staff timetables;

• Monitoring energy costs;

• Quality of the distribution of lunch breaks.

Benefits• Ability to monetize spaces;

• Sustainable use of resources;

• Effective teaching service;

• Smart and profitable decisions.

Bullet Interactive (BI)Interactive Web Portal

Bullet Interactive enables academic staff and students to access their timetables and summaries of their lessons, in real time.

Academic staff can also register their summaries, mark their lessons, make classroom reservations, per-form requests for classroom changes and necessary material, among other tasks. They can also receive (through e-mail and SMS) notifications of occasional changes associated to an event (e.g. lessons or exams).

Features• Web portal accessible to the academic community;

• Visualization of timetables and events for each week;

• Registration and consultation of summaries;

• Direct request of resources and adjustments of particular events.

Benefits• Avoid displacements or miscommunications through instant

access to the timetables;

• Enhance the interaction and contact efficiency with the Academic Services;

• Speed and efficiency of workflow and information flow;

• Reliable and efficient resource management of the Institution;

• Improvement of the image and positioning of the Institution.

Bullet Exam Planner (BEP)Automatic and Optimized Exam Generator

Bullet Exam Planner enables Educational Institutions to automatically plan and optimize exam schedules, with the respective academic staff, students and classrooms.

Free yourself from the complexity of the exam scheduling process, caused by courses, academic staff, stu-dents and classrooms constraints. Stop wasting countless hours preparing a feasible plan for the exams of your Institution.

Features• Automatic generation and allocation of appropriate resources

and time-slots to existing exams;

• Customization of specific time constraints for academic staff, students, classrooms and modules;

• Prioritization of each objective, according to the Institution needs, when generating and optimizing exam schedules;


Benefits• Superior productivity gains: Bullet Exam Planner solves a week or

month-long task in a few minutes;

• Optimized management of exams and resources;





Bullet Classroom Allocator (BCA)Automatic and Optimized Classroom Allocator

Bullet Classroom Allocator is a product to support space management, a problem that daily affects almost all Educational Institutions.

It uses predefined timetables to allocate spaces in an automatic and optimized manner, according to the required room characteristics for each lesson and the objectives of each Institution.

Features• Automatic allocation of facilities to existing lessons;

• Customization of specific time constraints for classrooms;

• Prioritization of each objective, according to the Institution needs, when generating and optimizing the classroom allocation;


Benefits• Superior productivity gains: Bullet Classroom Allocator solves a

week or month-long task in a few minutes;

• Optimized space management;





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Spread across 6 countriesWorldwide Coverage

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Macau

AngolaBrazil

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ROI in less than 18 monthsImplemented in TOP 10 Portuguese Institutions

Up to 90% reduction in the time allocated to the timetabling process

Solves in minutes a task that could take up to weeks

Nearly 10 years of continuous improvementMore than 500 improvements

Contact us

For more information about Bullet Education SuiTe and our other innovative software solutions or consulting serv-

ices, please go to our website www.bulletsolutions.com.

Customer SupportBuilding a relationship to help you reach your goals

We believe going the extra mile for our clients. We are not only seeking to offer you a software solution, but also

supporting you along the way in order to make your Institution excel.

Everyone needs guidance sometimes and we have a team of experts to help you satisfy your needs. Our Customer

Support provides personalized and professional services which include:

• Experts who offer a technical prompt support on your current processes and advice on how to restructure them;

• Technical consultants who will remotely help you throughout implementation;

• Training providers who can offer both remote and in-house training courses adapted to your needs.

We enhance the responsibility and the respon-

siveness of Bullet Solutions technical support

team. Their openness to receive proposals for

altering and customizing the program is another

one of their virtues.

Professor José Rui Ferreira

Saving time is making money. This could be the motto of Bullet Solutions.

Radar de Negócios - RTP Informação(Portuguese TV Broadcaster)

...can do in seconds what would take days to do manually...

Made in Portugal – Rádio TSF(Top News Radio Broadcaster in Portugal)

Organization and systematization of the information

Cost reductions with human resources

Transparency and impartiality on the process

Access to real-time information

Bullet SolutionsAbout Us

Bullet Solutions is specialized in providing expert consulting services and in the development of tailored optimiza-

tion software solutions. Our focus resides on enhancing business performance and profitability. Through our vast

expertise in Operations Research we were able to unlock the value of our solutions. This enables us to develop intel-

ligent algorithms able to improve day-to-day operations across several business areas such as Education, Healthcare,

Tourism and Leisure, Production, Logistics, Transportation, Retail, Security, Sports, Services, among others.

Bullet Solutions has the ability to provide an adjusted response, whether in educational timetabling, personnel

scheduling, production scheduling, routing optimization, packing optimization, or any other complex combinatorial

problem. The products developed and marketed by the company are the end result of research conducted internally,

focused on each specific problem, delivering useful solutions that fulfill large gaps in each of the addressed areas.

The obtained results are adequate and the

reaction of teachers and students is very

favourable. The necessary effort to make the

timetables is significantly alleviated with the

use of this IT product.

Professor Carlos Silva Ribeiro(Chairman of the Pedagogical Council)

Solutions generated instantly taking into account all the needs

Reliable information and elimination of errors

Increased productivity and efficiency

Return on investment on approximately 18 months

Optimized Educational Performance

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