Optimal Enhances Capabilities for Meeting IT Needs of K-12 School Systems
Alliance with Edustructures Brings Schools Interoperability Framework ( SIF) Expertise to Optimal’s Service Offerings for the Education Market
| Irving, TX (March 1,2005) - Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc., a leading enterprise technology consulting
firm to large public sector enterprises, government agencies and Fortune 1000
companies, today announced an alliance with Edustructures, a leading provider of
SIF-compliant technology solutions to the education marketplace.
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| The schools interoperability framework (SIF) eliminates the need for school
personnel to manually re-enter student information for each software package a
school district uses – a need that arises when applications can’t
communicate with each other or easily share information. By creating a single,
streamlined communications interface and automating the process of entering
student data into all applications in use throughout a school district, SIF
dramatically reduces administrative time and costs and drives significant
efficiency gains throughout a school district’s entire student information
system (SIS). | | |
| Industry experts and administrators agree that the complex and dynamic nature
of today’s technology landscape, coupled with the stringent reporting
required by No Child Left Behind make SIF-compliant student information systems
a foremost objective. | | |
| “When a school district's applications can’t communicate and
transmit data in real time, school officials can’t always make the best
decisions,” said Sam Sliman, executive vice president for Optimal
Solutions Integration. “ SIF seamlessly ties all of a school
district’s applications together, making it possible to generate accurate,
real-time reports. With this capability, a school district can make smart,
well-informed decisions that improve its overall ability to meet the needs of
its students. Our alliance with Edustructures gives us the leading-edge SIF
capabilities we need to present extremely compelling interoperability solutions
to our K-12 clients.” | | |
| “While some of the obvious, pragmatic benefits of SIF include
efficiency, accuracy, and cost savings, the deeper value of SIF lies in its
ability to dramatically reduce the number of students that ‘fall through
the cracks’ in a school system, and by this I mean the communication
cracks that inevitably occur between departments, grades, individual schools and
entire school systems,” said Dr. Gary Johnson, vice president of sales for
Edustructures. “ SIF is the most effective solution available for filling
those cracks. We are delighted to partner with Optimal in helping school
districts improve the quality and enhance the performance of their student
information systems.” | | |
| Optimal’s alliance with Edustructures builds on the firm’s
commitment to meet the IT needs of its growing roster of K-12 school district
clients. Through an existing partnership with ESP Solutions Group, a leading
consulting firm to local, state, and federal education agencies in the area of
data-driven decision making, Optimal is developing next-generation,
SIF-compliant technologies for K-12 school districts. | | |
Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc.
Sam Sliman
(202) 872-5077
press contact
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ESP Solutions Group
Mark D. Johnson
(512) 458-8364, ext. 107
press contact
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Edustructures
Gary Johnson, Ph.D.
(877) 790-1261, ext. 427
press contact
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SIF is a trademark of the Schools Interoperability Framework Association
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Edustructures is a trademark, and SIFWorks and ADK are registered trademarks of
Edustructures LLC in the United States and other countries.
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For more information, please contact:
Edustructures LLC
Sandra Richards, 1.877.790.1261 Extension 438
news@edustructures.com
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