release or is otherwise written in a promotional tone . please help by either rewriting this article from a neutral point of view or by moving this article to wikinews . when appropriate blatant advertising may be marked for speedy deletion with db spam . july 2016 quscient technologies type technology and services firm industry higher and further education it services and consulting founded 2006 founder babu thiagarajan headquarters chennai tamil nadu india area served worldwide services consulting and process audit admissions and enrollment services support and help desk services content services and internet marketing website www.quscient.com quscient is a service provider for colleges and universities across the world with a focus on those in the us and uk . it offers higher and further education institutions services in consulting and process audit admissions and enrolment support and helpdesk content creation and internet marketing . their products and services focus on introducing automated workflows in enrolment and business processes . proretention their flagship product addresses the problem of student retention . contents 1 history 2 product 3 acquisition 3.1 awards 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit quscient was founded by babu thiagarajan 1 in 2006 as a tax and accounting bpo company that tied up with companies and certified public accountants in the us for creating offshore back offices . the year 2006 proved to be a turning point for quscient when the ceo of a campus and online university based out of southwestern united states asked babu thiagarajan for services outside tax and accounting . knowing babu s consulting and it background the university wanted him to study the runaway student attrition and devise ways to encourage retention . through his study babu learned why students were leaving for other colleges or simply dropping out . it became evident that there were fundamental lacunae in the manner student issues were addressed departments were operating in silos and student touch points were missing particularly during their early days at the university . in 2010 after a few sales and assignments in the us quscient found its next client across the atlantic a university in london uk . quscient has over the years worked with other uk universities and colleges as well to centralise admission processes establish student support helpdesks reinforce e learning systems and increase student service levels . product edit quscient 2 services its clients mainly through the deployment of proretention a software product that serves as a student service overlay designed to increase student retention in higher education institutions . it packages workflows for several aspects of student experience and university college administration both online and on campus . acquisition edit in 2012 quscient acquired minglebox.com 3 india s number 1 higher education portal connecting students to colleges in india and abroad . minglebox is the brainchild of a group of iit iim graduates who saw an entrepreneurial opportunity in addressing the needs of the millions of students in india looking for information and guidance for higher education in india and abroad . awards edit quscient is ranked among the top 100 it innovators by nasscom 4 for identifying and developing a new market for higher education products and outsourcing solutions . the company was also ranked amongst the top 5 bpo companies by si100 an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by indians in the us . see also edit companies portal tidel park chennai list of tech parks in chennai references edit finalist of cii sr emerging entrepreneur award 2011 babu thiagarajan chief executive officer quscient technologies tamil nadu treating your student like a customer excellencia siliconindia magazine social networking sets minglebox registers ringing nasscom emerge blog an initiative by the nasscom emerge forum nasscom s 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