Mr. Marcelo Mauler, TGMSoft president comes to the CSIET 26th CSIET Annual conference to meet industry leaders and make presentations about Zapp.

The new features make easier to data-enter from spreadsheets sent from Sending Organizations making the process even faster.

The Au Pair program and the High School programs have a similar workflow and was a natural move for Zapp.

This major upgrade release brings an improved layout for the screens granting an easier and faster system navigation experience. This version also brings an upgraded Tracker feature that brings to a single screen a snapshot of the RO processes and their workflow.

Mr. Marcelo Mauler, TGMSoft president comes to the CSIET 25th CSIET Annual conference to meet industry leaders and make presentations about Zapp.

Mr. Marcelo Mauler, TGMSoft president comes to the CSIET 24th CSIET Annual conference to meet industry leaders and make presentations about Zapp.

The Zapp W&T system consolidates its position with thousands of applications processed over an year period.

Mr. Marcelo Mauler, TGMSoft president comes to the CSIET 23rd CSIET Annual conference to meet industry leaders and make presentations about Zapp.

To meet the specific needs of this growing industry Zapp launches a dedicated system to help those programs focused on the High School F1 programs. Its first client is ETC-PSE based in Portland, Oregon.

The Zapp team brings its expertise of 5 years developing, implementing and managing electronic document management & workflow systems to the fast growing Work and Travel program arena. Its first client is ERDT/Share based in Santa Monica, California.

This fast growing organization founded in 1996 chose the Zapp System team as partner to meet its needs of flexible and yet robust system compatible with its aggressive business development plans.

There are more than 150 organizations from 23 countries benefiting from Zapp by sending and receiving student applications and managing program information. Reading the client testimonials is the best way to understand the success of the Zapp system.

This is what Judy Scott president of AISE has to say about Zapp CMS:

Now, I have ANOTHER favorite thing on ZAPP. Until now, the Student Virtual Folder / Counseling & Documentation has been my favorite - but, I must say the NEWSLETTER module might give some competition. One is an excellent timesaver in that we don't have to print and file the correspondence. The other is such an excellent marketing tool. Both are great "money-savers". I am well pleased.

This new component will allow Sending and Receiving organizations to compose and deliver customized online newsletter with text, photos and video to its user base. It will also allow editing and publishing content in real time in their websites.

These new features add a great deal of value to Zapp as a whole and help its clients organizations to better position themselves the Web arena.

This very well run Receiving Organization has been in operation for over two decades. They want to take advantage of Zapp state-of the-art online databases.

More than 100 organizations from 18 countries are now benefiting from Zapp by sending and receiving student applications and managing program information. Zapp is here to stay. Reading the client testimonials is the best way to understand the success of the Zapp system.

This fast growing organization headquartered in Belgium hired the Zapp team to develop a number of customized modules. WEP hopes to reduce not only their application processing costs but also general student mailing costs. Each year WEP manages about 3,000 applications in various programs; of this number more than 500 are applicants to WEP's high school exchange program. They have offices in Argentina, Australia, Belgium and Italy.

ISE, International Services in Education, one of the most preeminent Sending Organizations in Turkey decides to have its own Student Application form customized and running on Zapp.

"Initially, we thought about developing our own system but as our 3 US-based partners were already using Zapp we decided to order this customization. This cost us a fraction of what it would cost to develop our own system and was up and running in a week!" said Gokyar Karsit, ISE president.

For the second year in row Marcelo Mauler, TGMSoft /Zapp marketing director attends the ERDT/Share! National Conference. Innovative new features of the Zapp system were presented and several sessions to evaluate the system were conducted. Many ERDT overseas partners joined this annual meeting and had a change to actively participate in the evaluation sessions.

The marketing director of TGMSoft / Zapp Marcelo Mauler was invited to make a presentation to introduce the system to the AISE network during a national weekend-long gathering in San Antonio, TX. This was the official launch event which included training sessions. Marcelo Mauler also met with the AISE board of directors to formalize the partnership between AISE and TGMSoft.

The launch of the new Zapp product named Zapp Online Document and Information Management System took place at the CSIET conference in Portland, Oregon in October 2004.

This new product will help organizations to manage host family applications, progress and evaluation reports, student counseling documentation among other things.

With a presentation entitled Beyond the Student Application: Total Online Management of Student Documentation, Communications & Data, TGM Director Marcelo Mauler introduced the new product and reemphasized the importance even for small and medium Exchange Organizations to identify an specialized IT partner that can really help craft a long term information management strategy vital to any business nowadays.

More than 50 organizations from 3 continents are using Zapp to send and receive applications worldwide. Companies from Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Mongolia, Slovakia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, USA and Vietnam are already benefiting from the Zapp end-to-end collaborative platform, saving money, time and trees!

Following are some quotes from a few of those organizations:

"In the field of international education, fast access to accurate student information can make the difference between meeting and missing a deadline. The Zapp online application system has helped SMG close the gap between our network in the States and our student applicants across the world and the results have been an astonishing reduction in the time it takes to arrange many of our programs."

- Jordan Nagle, Director, SMG - Student Management Group (an American Receiving Organization that processes over 2500 applications in the USA)

"We at ERDT love ZAPP! The system has opened new horizons for ERDT in the way our organization and our overseas partners handle student applications and other student data, such as flight schedules. The first impressive thing is speed: once the student has completed the application, the application literally moves at the speed of light from our overseas partners to ERDT's main office and then from us out to our placement field staff. The long-term savings in copying, mailing, storage, and general administrative overhead are huge. Apart from upgrading our internet browers (which is free!), we have not had to make any internal software or hardware upgrades in order to run the ZAPP online system. Then there is the support provided by the TGMSoft customer service staff. We have never worked with a software company that is as helpful and as fast in implementation as TGMSoft. If you are not on ZAPP, you are a dinosaur. You know what happened to them. Get with it."

- Colin Churchill, Executive Director, ERDTShare! (An American receiving organization that brings more than 700 applications)

"I was very surprised on how fast the application is sent to the RO. Real cool!"

- Raphaela Köring, Program manager, GLS (A German language institute and also a large Sending Organization)

"Zapp Customer Service is just wonderful!"

- Cris Saito, Operations Manager, STB (The largest Brazilian sending organization)

Zapp has now made another great breakthrough: Students will now be able to insert not only photos but also audio and video clips into their online application. This allows a whole new world of possibilities for students to introduce themselves to potential host families. Having a 3-minute video of a student playing piano or playing soccer is far richer than the most talented writer can put into words. Potential host family (and schools!) will be able to see and hear students interacting with friends, family, etc. There is no limit to the creativity that inserting audio and video clips into the Zapp online application will bring!

Studies in every direction indicate that broadband will soon be as ubiquitous as the internet itself. Very soon videos over the web will be as popular and accessible as photos are nowadays. For Zapp, this is already today! We offer a complete software and hardware infrastructure for students to upload video and audio files and for potential host families to play them.

After speaking on the Zapp system at the CSIET 2003 Conference in Miami to a majority of US-based Receiving Organizations, Mr. Marcelo Mauler, partner with TGM Software and one of creators of the Zapp system, will now share his experience and insights with the members of the DFH - (Deutscher Fachverband High School e.V.) German High School Student Exchange Association at its March 3rd, 2004, meeting in Frankfurt. The DHF audience comprises mostly Sending Organizations.

The Annual CSIET Conference (October, 2003) featured a presentation entitled "Going On-Line with the Student Application: A "Dynamic" Web-Based Solution to Handling Student Information"!


ERDT/Share! Executive Director, Colin Churchill, and Marcelo Mauler, partner with TGM Software and one of creators of the Zapp system, presented together their experience and insights related to the development and implementation of web-based management and distribution of exchange student applications and other exchange student data.