Description
The Shawnee Mission School District is seeking a Student Information System (SIS) to replace its current on-premise system. The District is looking for a system that can provide a variety of features, including automated exports, mass data imports and exports, custom dashboards, and easy report generation. The system should also be able to communicate and transmit data to various software platforms and provide a variety of access levels to staff. The District is interested in a system that can provide a clear transition plan from the current system and has experience with data migrations from Progress to Microsoft SQL. Some key features and services desired by the District include:
• The ability to automate exports through a variety of methods (API, direct export to SFTP, etc.)
• The ability to mass-import/export data, particularly related to fields associated with State of Kansas reporting
• The ability to create custom dashboards for users
• The ability to easily generate reports
• The ability to easily transport reports to the State of Kansas (such as SPED Pro, KIDS, and KEDS)
• Aesthetic, intuitive, easy-to-navigate user screens and dashboards
• The ability to customize forms and easily export the data from customized fields
• The ability to insert graphics for progress reporting
• The ability to communicate and transmit data to a variety of software platforms
• The ability to provide a variety of access levels to staff, based on data needs and state and federal requirements regarding who can access the information
• The ability to provide/link sibling records for family data
• The ability to provide customized utilities that meet the needs of District users
• The ability to provide four environments: Production, Development, Training, and Testing
• The ability to encrypt data using the AES-256 algorithm