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Is the day of the standalone SIS over?
Or, for that matter, the standalone LMS? Or LIMS? Or any other MS?
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Oracle on Amazon? Think again
Colleagues at one of the world's largest SIs have been testing the Amazon Oracle Relational Database Service - aka RDS (and not to be confused with SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions also aka RDS.)...
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The Great SIS Survey: Followup and wrapup
It wasn't scientific. The reporting tools stunk. The data were paltry. And yet it's abundantly clear that there is significant room for improvement and competition in the SIS market.
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The Great SIS Survey!
Your SIS is critical to the functioning of your school and district. It should also be an integral part of teaching and learning. Is it?
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Loosely coupled crowd development
Global SIs are dragging cloud applications into the same mire as traditional enteprise apps. Perhaps a crowdsourced, community approach will at last bring much-needed cloud models into...
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Follett gets an SIS...now what?
Follett buys its very own SIS. This might be a game changer in terms of integrated technology services for schools.
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My LMS debacle
I have to implement a learning management system. District-wide. Yesterday. But is it as easy as firing up Moodle or opening parent access to our SIS?
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Oh, that's why SIF is important
It's almost 2010, after all. We should be able to handle some fairly straightforward database integration, shouldn't we?
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Day 2 of the X2 Aspen Community Conference
Here I am again at the X2 Aspen Community Conference. While X2 Aspen information is obviously of most interest to X2 Aspen users, users of the countless SIS products out there should feel free to...
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Live from the X2 Community Conference
I'm at the X2 Development Corporation Community Conference for the next two days. It's an annual event that our SIS vendor puts on to bring together end users (power, guru, new, and otherwise)...
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Appirio, shafting the global SIs
VCs placed another $10 million bet this week that global SIs will crumble in the face of the enormous change being wrought on the businesses by the advent of SaaS and cloud computing.
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The top 10 things you'd change about your SIS
I went to a meeting yesterday of the X2 Advisory Council. This is a group of users/tech director types that our student information system developer (X2 Development Corporation) set up to to help...
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Opera Mini rocks out loud
You know how most mobile web browsers will take you to the mobile version of a website if it exists and just make a mockery of a website if it lacks a mobile equivalent? And no, I'm not talking...
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To ESped or not to ESped
Our SIS now includes a fairly mature special education module. It's not perfect, but it's well-integrated with the rest of the SIS and gives teachers immediate and easy access to the...
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Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?
Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don’t always make huge profits as...
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Empower your people
It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're still not exactly overstaffed on...
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Mobile access to your SIS
Several student information system (SIS) vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the...
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New version of Centre open source SIS released
Although I'm happy as a clam with my current student information system, the idea of an open source solution remains attractive. The Miller Group has updated the open source Centre SIS (also...
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My best year scheduling yet
I'm putting the finishing touches on our school's master schedule for next year, tweaking class loads, optimizing student schedules, and otherwise getting ready to distribute schedules to...
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