ACS Athletics and West Shore Technologies Partner to Improve the Scouting and Assessment Processes for College Coaches
March 26, 2012
(Austin, Texas) – ACS Athletics, the leading provider of integrated web and mobile solutions for increasing staff and operational performance and reducing risk in collegiate athletics departments, and West Shore Technologies, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, today announced a partnership to integrate West Shore’s SportsBoard iPad application with InControl™, ACS Athletics industry leading recruiting, compliance and student-athlete information management system. ACS Athletics will offer the SportsBoard application to customers looking to streamline scouting.
ACS Athletics helped to pioneer mobility in collegiate athletics beginning in 2005 with the first release of native recruiting and compliance mobile applications for coaches. ACS Athletics currently offers a variety of web and native mobile applications for smartphones and tablet PCs that help to facilitate athletics operations, data management and communications at over 100 institutions across the country.
“Mobility is essential to our customers, especially our college coaches that are constantly on the road recruiting or competing,” says Phillip Engle, CEO and President, ACS Athletics. “The SportsBoard iPad scouting application is a nice complement to our growing portfolio of mobile offerings and we look forward to working with West Shore to promote the product’s capabilities to our customers.”
SportsBoard is a patent-pending software solution based on the iPad and cloud technology that automates scouting/assessment processes for coaches at the collegiate, professional, high school and club levels of a variety of team sports.
About ACS Athletics:
ACS Athletics (ACS) is the leading provider of integrated web and mobile solutions for increasing operational performance and reducing risk in collegiate athletics departments. ACS gives customers a competitive advantage by providing an integrated, holistic approach to managing athletic department operational, compliance, student-athlete information and communications on one platform. ACS customers are more efficient, organized and compliant, and are better positioned to communicate and develop relationships that are vital to their success. ACS proudly services athletic departments in the top conferences including the Atlantic 10 Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big West Conference, Capital Athletic Conference, Centennial Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Conference USA, Empire 8, Ivy Group, Mid-American Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, Mountain West Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Pacific-12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, Southern Conference, Southland Conference, Sun Belt Conference, The Summit League, West Coast Conference, and Western Athletic Conference. ACS Athletics was founded in 1999 and is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas.