Product Rollout

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Helping Educators Deliver Excellence Through
Innovation
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Traditional Setup
Cafeteria

• The situation in many schools and school systems
  is that there are a series of software
  applications which all may require the same data,
  but which have no way to talk to each other.
• It may be possible for one or two applications to
  share data through proprietary methods, however
  open, dynamic and synchronized data sharing does
  not occur.

SIS
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Network Accounts
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Library
Transportation
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SIF Overview
Student Information Services
DirXML Network Account
Library Automation

• Zone Integration Server (ZIS)
• SIF Agents
• Applications
• SIF Data Objects

H.R. Finance
Food Services
Data Analysis Reporting
Grade Book
Instructional Services
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Best Practices Framework

• Pre-Planning
• Evaluate
• How will your district benefit from SIF?
• Who are your SIF constituents?
• What will your return on investment look like?
• Plan
• How will you go about implementing SIF?
• What processes must change to make SIF effective?
• Purchase SIF Compliant Software
• RFP language
• Implementing
• Integrate
• Consolidate
• Disseminate

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Best Practices Framework

• Integrate
• Prioritize your systems
• Begin with SIS as first system (SchoolMAX)
• Select a ZIS vendor that aligns to your
  infrastructure platform and needs
• Other key systems
• Special Education / Assessment (TIENET)
• Transportation (Versatrans, EduLog)
• Library (Destiny, Alexandria, Sagebrush)
• Directory (Microsoft, Novell)

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Answering Horizontal Questions
Food Service
Grade Book
HR / Finance
Library
SIS
Transportation
Instructional Services
Voice Telephony
Accountability, Reporting, Planning, etc
Data Warehousing
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Naperville Community Unit District 203

• District profile
• 18,000 Students
• 1,000 Teachers
• SIF Status
• SIS MAXIMUS SchoolMAX
• Parental Communications - ParentLink Software
• Human Resources - Carter-Pertain
• Data Warehouse - SPSS

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Naperville Community Unit District 203
SIF Data Warehouse Model
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SIF vs. SIFA

• SIF Association
• A non-profit membership organization comprised
  of
• pK-12 Educational Technology Companies
• Regional Service Agencies
• Schools Districts
• U.S. and State Departments of Education
• Other educational organizations

• SIF Specification
• Jointly building XML Specifications to enable
  pK-12
• software applications to share data
  quickly, dynamically
• and securely.
• Platform Independent / Vendor Neutral

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Tools for Evaluating Your Readiness

• SIF Website www.sifinfo.org
• - Information
• - Implementation Readiness Tool
• Online tool to help you determine your readiness
  for SIF
• http//docgen.espsg.com/toolkit/register.form?
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• - Implementation Toolkit
• Planning Questions
• Proposed RFP Language
• Integrity Worksheet

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SIF Specification 2.0 - Coming Soon

• Profiles
• New Objects
• Other Improvements

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Budgeting and Planning

• Resources
• Hardware
• Zone Integration Server
• Database Server
• Agent Server
• Software
• Application Upgrades (to SIF compliant versions)
• Zone Integration Server
• SIF Agents
• Universal Agent
• Custom Agent

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Budgeting and Planning

• Resources
• Staff
• Network Administrator
• Database Administrator
• Subject Matter Expert for Each System to be
  Integrated
• Users of Each System to be Integrated
• External
• Consultant

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SIF Benefits/ROI

• Students Parents
• Personalized student content
• Improved timeliness of service
• Accurate school data
• Increased efficiency

• IT Departments
• Reduced support costs
• Reduced time needed to manage multiple data
  sources
• Save money using existing systems and
  infrastructure

• Teachers
• Real-time access to critical information
• Better data analysis
• Teachers time better spent

• Administrators
• Increased efficiency
• Reduced redundancy and errors
• Reduced compatibility issues

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District Return On Investment

• New Student Registering for Enrollment into
• Student Information System Directory Service
  Application
• ID Card System Library Automation System
• Cafeteria Management System
• Typical School SIF School
• - 49 minute task - 4 minute task
• - 10 times data entered - 1 time data entry
• 45 minutes/student X 18,000 students
• 6 FTEs!
• 1/10th the Time 1/10th the Risk

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Additional ROI Examples

• Library
• SIF capability
• Near real time data exchange
• Example
• SIF is used to send the school media services
  specialist an e-mail when a student is leaving
  the district
• Benefit
• The media specialist can coordinate the return of
  all materials prior to the students departure
• Additional interaction with the student prior to
  departure
• Potential opportunity to help student transition

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Additional ROI Examples

• Food Services
• SIF capability
• Data accuracy
• Example
• SIF is used to update the student management
  system with meal status information that is
  stored in the food services system
• Benefit
• District administrators have the most accurate
  free/reduced lunch count possible
• Potential source of additional funding

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Additional ROI Examples

• Assessment Reporting
• SIF capability
• Data integrity and accuracy
• Example
• SIF is used to intersect demographic data stored
  in the student management system with ISAT
  results
• Benefit
• Administrators, principals and teachers can run
  reports that utilize the most accurate set of
  demographics for students

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SchoolMAX SIF Data Objects
Publish  StudentPersonal StudentSchoolEnrollment
Schoolnfo StudentContact StudentPicture
Subscribe StudentMeal LibraryPatronStatus BusInf
o BusRouteInfo BusRouteDetail BusStopInfo StudentT
ransportInfo StudentPicture StudentParticipation
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TIENET SIF Data Objects
Subscribe SchoolInfo StaffPersonal StudentCont
act StudentSchoolEnrollment
Publish StudentParticipation  
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Thank You! Integrity Technology Solutions Dave
Moravec dmoravec_at_integrityts.com http//k12.integr
ityts.com 309-664-8115