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.
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
Contact Information:
Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc.
Sam Sliman
(202) 872-5077
sam.sliman@optimalsol.com
ESP Solutions Group
Mark D. Johnson
(512) 458-8364, ext. 107
www.espsolutionsgroup.com
Edustructures
Gary Johnson, Ph.D.
(877) 790-1261, ext. 427
gjohnson@edustructures.com
