valuable as recommendations from other schools/users are, I think that
it is more important to treat the search for a new SIS in a more
formal way. Get a group of users from various constituencies (staff,
administrators, teachers, parents? students?), come up with a list of
things that you must have and would like to have, and then deliver
that list to as many SIS vendors as you can find. Let them try to
sell to you and make sure that they at least meet your minimum
expectations.
We're partway through the process right now (all vendors have
submitted their responses to our RFP) and we've found the process
itself to be very valuable. In the next 4 weeks, we will be
evaluating the SIS vendor responses and we will invite 3-4 vendors to
campus in September to show off their product to our SIS search
committee.
Christopher
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Christopher Butler
Director of Information Services
St. John's Preparatory School
http://www.stjohnsprep.org
On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Larry Kahn wrote:
> We have been extremely happy with Veracross. They are a great fit
> if you are looking for a web based solution that is extremely
> customizable. We use FinalSite for our website and they integrate
> automatically and seamlessly with it.
>
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Mary Knopp wrote:
>
>> Hi,We are looking for a student information system to replace
>> SASI. I would appreciate your recommendations. Thanks in advance!
>> Mary Knopp, MLSLibrary Media SpecialistAcademy of Mount St.
>> Ursula330 Bedford Park BoulevardBronx, NY 10458718-354-5353 x225
>>
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