From schools
Experience
Two co-founders, one shared frustration with school admin.
One company
Alignment
They founded Education Management Solutions to solve it properly.
Track record
Solid
Gieman IT Solutions: nearly 20 years building for one major international client.
Built here
Craft
That same team designs and builds EMS360, Gieman's flagship Australian project.
Today
Impact
Incidents, reviews, PD compliance and workflows, - supporting Australian schools, built and backed locally.
The problem
Started in a staffroom, not a boardroom
EMS360 began with a simple frustration: schools spending more time on admin than on students.
Russell Elliott felt it as a principal, juggling incident reports, staff reviews, PD records and a dozen half-connected spreadsheets, on top of actually running a school. Gerald Gierer had lived the same reality as a teacher, before moving into software engineering.
Between them, they'd seen the gap from both sides of the classroom door. It wasn't a lack of effort from school staff, it was a lack of software built for how schools actually work.
The team
Who actually builds EMS360
EMS360 is designed and built in partnership with Gieman IT Solutions, the software studio Gerald founded, not handed off to a generic agency that also builds shopping carts and booking systems. It's led by someone who's stood in a classroom, not just a boardroom.
Why it still matters today
Still built by people who understand schools
Software vendors come and go - teams get restructured, products get abandoned, support tickets disappear into a queue.
That's not how Gieman works. The same team that's supported a major client for close to 20 years brings that consistency to EMS360, steady and known, not a revolving door of contractors.
Contact us and you'll reach those people directly: the ones who've been doing this for years, and plan to keep doing it
EMS360 started with a simple frustration: too much of a school's time was going into admin, not students. This is the story of how a principal and a software developer set out to fix that.