Our flagship product (Allocate Plus) has its origins from a product that was the brainchild of the late entrepreneur Patrick Pleass. Patrick identified the need for a flexible, easy-to-use, student focused but administrator-friendly class allocation solution that could bridge a gap in the market between timetabling and student management systems.

Through the early 2000’s, Allocate Plus became a product of choice for many Australian and New Zealand universities that wanted student satisfaction through class allocation. After Patrick’s untimely demise in 2014, JDR Software purchased Allocate Plus and started a process of refactoring the product, making it a robust, commercial grade application.

The following year saw the inaugural Allocate Plus User Group conference. Now a firm fixture on the calendar, this is an annual opportunity to bring timetabling and IT staff from our client base and other tertiary institutions together with our product leads to discuss product enhancements and the evolution of the JDR Software roadmap.

The feedback from our clients at the Allocate Plus User Group conference was directly responsible for the introduction of a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution in 2016 and over the next few years, all clients are migrated to this new platform allowing JDR to better manage this piece of critical infrastructure.

With a new SaaS solution in place, JDR Software began to grow its client base. Over the next few years, Allocate Plus became the product of choice at over 60% of universities in Australia and New Zealand, including the majority of Group of Eight (Go8) and Sandstone universities in Australia.

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