Twenty-two years of one system.
MAIS did not appear yesterday and will not disappear tomorrow. It has been developed since 2004, and today four universities and five colleges with more than 60,000 users rely on it.
How it started
MAIS was first written in 2004 at Dupres Consulting in Dubnica. The brief was simple: the study department should not enter the same data in several places, and a student should see their studies in one view. That one area grew into nine modules, from e-application to diploma.
When the system outgrew a single project, ITernal was founded to take over its development and support and to work on it full time. We did not start from zero. We continue work that schools have relied on for two decades and push it forward: new integrations with state systems, the MAIS Student mobile app and operation on PostgreSQL with no database license fees. In 2017 we added Plagoff, a service students use to check the originality of their thesis before submission.
In that time the Act on Higher Education changed several times, and so did the technologies the web runs on. MAIS changed with them, so that schools did not have to.
Why you can count on us being here in ten years
An information system is not replaced every year. So we want you to be able to check our stability, not just take it on trust.
The system and data stay with you
MAIS runs on the school's hardware, with the modules the school chose, on the open PostgreSQL database. The school manages its own data. It belongs to the school, not to us.
A stable company, public numbers
We are profitable and our financial statements are publicly available in the Register of Financial Statements. You do not have to take our word for it. You can look.
The work does not depend on one person
Analysis, development, operations and support each have different people in charge. Development runs on company servers, so the code and documentation belong to the company, not to an individual.
Commitments in the contract
We deploy updates for new regulations before they take effect and provide support on working days from 9:00 to 15:00. It is written in the contracts, not only on the website.
Who looks after MAIS
Each part of the work has a different owner. When you get in touch, you reach whoever handles your case.
- Management
- The company directors negotiate with universities in person and put their names behind every delivery.
- Analysis
- We turn study regulations and legislation into a specification before the first line of code is written.
- Development
- We build and maintain MAIS, including its integrations and the MAIS Študent mobile app.
- Operations
- Servers and databases, rollout of new versions and backups on the universities' own infrastructure.
- Support
- The first point of contact for study department staff and administrators, with a direct line to the developers.
Three things that have held from the start
We read the law like code
Study regulations, the Act on Higher Education, reports to the ministry. You cannot build an academic system without them.
Less, done properly
We do not do everything for everyone. We build a system for universities, and we have done it for a long time.
Long relationships
We have worked with schools for years. That is not possible without keeping what we promise.
In black and white
Financial statements are publicly available in the Register of Financial Statements.
- Company name
- ITernal, s. r. o.
- Registered office
- Sládkovičova 533/20, 018 41 Dubnica nad Váhom
- Company ID (IČO)
- 47 991 461
- Tax ID (DIČ)
- 2024173888
- VAT ID (IČ DPH)
- SK2024173888
- Registration
- Commercial Register of the District Court Trenčín, section Sro, file 31142/R
- Managing directors
- Ing. Daniel Konček, PhDr. Ing. Martin Stacho
Considering a new academic system?
We will show you MAIS on your own processes, not on slides. 30 minutes online, no commitment. We will also tell you what a rollout at your university would involve and how long it would take.
+421 915 724 757or call us, weekdays 9:00–15:00