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.
2. 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.
3. Bullet Education SuiTe includes the following 6 products:
(BTTE) Bullet TimeTabler Education
Automatic and optimized generation of timetables.
(BC) Bullet Calendar
Management of schedules, events and resources, through a decision support system.
(BBI) Bullet Business Intelligence
Management and diagnose of the most important KPIs of an Educational Institution.
(BI) Bullet Interactive
Web management of summaries, attendance and other useful information.
(BEP) Bullet Exam Planner
Automatic and optimized generation of exam schedules.
(BCA) Bullet Classroom Allocator
Automatic and optimized allocation of classrooms.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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;
• Quickly obtains efficient solutions, through powerful algorithms.
Benefits
• Superior productivity gains: Bullet Exam Planner solves a week or
month-long task in a few minutes;
• Optimized management of exams 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.
9. 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;
• Quickly obtains efficient solutions, through powerful algorithms.
Benefits
• Superior productivity gains: Bullet Classroom Allocator solves a
week or month-long task in a few minutes;
• Optimized space management;
• 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.
10. Worldwide Coverage Spread across 6 countries
128.629
8.939
68
Students
Teachers
Institutions
Portugal
Poland
Macau
Spain
Brazil Angola
Up to 90% reduction in the time allocated to the
timetabling process
Solves in minutes a task that could take up to weeks
Implemented in TOP 10 ROI in less than 18 months
Portuguese Institutions
Nearly 10 years of continuous improvement
More than 500 improvements
11. Customer Support
Building 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.
Saving time is making money. This could
be the motto of Bullet Solutions.
Radar de Negócios - RTP Informação
(Portuguese TV Broadcaster)
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.
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
...can do in seconds what would take
days to do manually...
Made in Portugal – Rádio TSF
(Top News Radio Broadcaster in Portugal)
12. Bullet Solutions
About 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.
Organization and systematization of the
information
Cost reductions with human resources
Transparency and impartiality on the process
Access to real-time information
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