Accreditation agencies have been searching for ways to update their largely paper-based procedures and to streamline their site visits while maintaining effectiveness. Liaison has developed a solution designed to:

• Improve efficiency and reduce expenditures for both the accreditation agencies and individual programs
• Provide a systematic way for schools to prepare the self-study activities on a yearly basis while looking ahead for the five, six, or seven years accreditation visit. This approach will even out this process and will enable institutions to considerably reduce their overall accreditation-related resource expenditures
• Provide the institution with a proactive tool to monitor progress and allow for high level yearly assessment of the institution's preparedness on all standards
• Avail to the institution at the beginning of its self-study period data that defines the institution's annual activities. This will significantly relieve the institution's administrators from the task of searching for or otherwise updating this critical information

Key Benefits include:

• Centralized housing of critical institution data
• Centralized source of information regarding standards
• Year-to-year retention of institutions' self-studies and agency standards
• Mechanism for breaking the binge/purge cycle and distributing accreditation work load across a broader time period.
• Required fields and verification to prevent incomplete self-study responses
• Rapid compilation, analysis, and publishing of reports to public and ad-hoc cohorts
• The ability for institutions to record data and track the progress of standards on a yearly basis