Edustructures SIF Agent for SASI™
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If your district relies on the SASI™ student information system
from Pearson Digital Learning, SIF is the perfect way to share
student and staff information with other SIF Compliant applications.
Changes made in SASI are automatically delivered in real-time to
subscribing applications that support the Schools Interoperability
Framework, including library, transportation, cafeteria, ID card, network
provisioning, grade book, and instructional applications.
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As a partner of Pearson Digital Learning, Edustructures is the only company
authorized to deliver a SIF Compliant solution for SASI customers.
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How It Works
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The Edustructures SIF Agent for SASI works behind the scenes as a background
service. Depending on application management and performance considerations,
the agent can be installed centrally on a single server at the central office,
or locally at each school. Because it supports multiple zones and has internal
load balancing, a single instance of the agent can service all of the schools
in a district. Many districts install the SASI agent on the same server as
the SIFWorks ZIS.
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Once installed, changes to student data are recorded by SASI in a special
database file. Changes remain cached until processed by the SIF Agent, which
checks for changes on a regular basis (by default, every 30 seconds). The agent
then sends the changes to the SIFWorks ZIS where they're propagated to other
SIF-enabled applications according to the provisioning and Access Control policies
defined by the ZIS administrator. (Note: The agent works this way even if your
school is using District Integration. In other words, changes made at each
school's local database are shared with SIF immediately and without involving
the District Integration module.)
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SIF Data Objects
The following SIF Data Objects are currently supported:
- LEAInfo
- RoomInfo
- SchoolCourseInfo
- SchoolInfo
- SectionInfo
- StaffAssignment
- StaffPersonal
- StudentContact
- StudentPersonal
- StudentSchoolEnrollment
- StudentSectionEnrollment
- StudentSnapshot
- TermInfo
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Features
- SIF Compliant
- The agent supports multiple versions of SIF consurrently for use in mixed environments. The agent supports multiple
versions of SIF concurrently for use in mixed environments.
- Scalable. Supports multiple zones and features internal load balancing.
- Fast. Up to 12x faster than previous agents
- Highly Customizable. Nearly every aspect of the agent's operation is fully
customizable by administrators, including how fields are mapped from SASI data
files to SIF elements and attributes
- Reliable. The agent includes reliability features that let it continue to operate
even when the connection to the network, SASI database, or zone integration server
is interrupted.
- Choose the SIF Data Objects enabled by the agent
- Choose how SIF Events are reported for each kind of SIF Data Object
- Easy-to-Use graphical Administration Console
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Requirements
- SASI: Version 4.5.2 and later (5.5 and later recommended)
- Java: Java 1.4.1 Runtime Environment or later (freely available from the Sun web site)
- Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003 required to host the agent
- Database: dBase IV (DB4), SQL Server, and Oracle are supported
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NOTE: The SASI Agent is often installed on the same server as the SIFWorks Enterprise ZIS
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