Accountability and Assessment solutions for schools and districts


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Accountability and Assessment Solutions

Provide the right information to everyone in your school or district with a cost-effective accountabiity and assessment solution. Using the Business Intelligence (BI) tools of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, all of your users—from the superintendent to classroom teachers—can generate reports and display them through familiar Microsoft Office tools, such as Microsoft Office Excel, or a Web browser. With access to relevant data from multiple sources, they can make better decisions by tracking progress against key performance indicators (KPIs).

Solving Real-World Challenges

Accountability and assessment solutions make data available to all of your employees who need it, and helps avoid problems, such as:

Valuable data locked away in silos
Business intelligence available to only a few people
Uninformed decision-makers
Inaccurate and unclear performance measurement
Time wasted creating reports manually

Key Benefits

Microsoft accountability and assessment solutions can help you:

Increase student performance: Give teachers and administrators a clear picture of student performance at an individual or group level so they can adjust instruction accordingly.
Make better decisions: Inform routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all business functions and disciplines with accurate, readily-available data.
Meet reporting requirement: Quickly and easily generate the reports you need for your school board and local, state, and federal requirements, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
Manage budgets more efficiently: Gain a better understanding of projected revenues and expenditures, keep track of your financial health, compare your costs for services (e.g. transportation) to other districts, and maximize the amount of your resources that make it to the classroom.
Maximize funding opportunities: Improve responses to legislative and grant requests and compliance with the reporting requirements.

Why Choose Microsoft?

Unlike other solutions that force you to choose whom you can afford to enable with powerful accountability an assessment tools, Microsoft delivers highly functional and affordable business intelligence for all of your employees. With Microsoft solutions, you get:

Reduced costs: Take advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft products, such as SQL Server and Microsoft Office, and fully-integrate with other vendors’ ERP software (including PeopleSoft, Datatel, and Banner) and virtually any data source.
Flexible functionality: Microsoft accountability and assessment is simple enough for average users, yet robust enough for power users.
High adoption rates: Data is delivered through familiar interfaces, such as Excel, so your users do not have to learn a whole new system—which means they will actually use it, and less training.
Strong partner ecosystem: Get the technology and assistance you need from a Microsoft education partner you can trust.

The following Microsoft partners offer Microsoft accountability and assessment solutions for primary/secondary education:


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B2B Technologies
(404) 892-1500

B2B is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that combines extensive education experience with deep expertise in Microsoft technologies to deliver leading-edge solutions to education organizations of all sizes. B2B delivers cost-effective solutions to the educational institutions while fostering the best-of-breed ideas gained from its work with commercial clients.

BlueGranite
(269) 353-7512

BlueGranite is an IT consulting company with specialized expertise in Business Intelligence solutions. Their Performance Dashboard solutions enable them to gather information from your existing systems and use that to provide historical, current, and predictive views of your school’s operations, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze, manage, and plan critical activities to align with your instructional strategy.

Catapult Systems Inc.
(800) 528-6248

Catapult Systems, a Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator, has the experience educational institutions like yours require to optimize Microsoft investments and leverage new technology. Catapult Systems employs a personalized approach to ensure that solutions are implemented and configured optimally to address your BI needs. Rather than make your institution adapt to the technology, Catapult consultants first gain an understanding of how the business problem fits into how you operate, and then work to adapt the technology to your situation, helping you install, configure, set up, customize, extend and integrate Microsoft BI.

Dell
(800) 574-9920

Dell has always placed a high-value on education and is committed to continuing to improve the classroom experience for educators and students across all education segments. From making technology more affordable, available and efficient, to implementing programs that help incorporate technology into the curriculum, Dell is passionate about simplifying IT for educators and helping students achieve the 21st Century skills they need to compete in the global economy.

Mariner
(704) 540-9500

Mariner helps K-12 school districts improve their operations and educational programs by enabling school district leaders to monitor, manage and analyze how the schools and their students are doing. Through dashboards, scorecards and other analytic tools, Mariner helps the education boards and the district offices to see, at a glance, whether improvement efforts are on track. In addition, key decision makers have the ability to analyze and compare performance data along so that they can make decisions that keep all students on the path to success. Mariner received the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Information Worker Solutions, Performance Management.

RCM Technologies, Inc.
(856) 486-1777

RCM Technologies is a premier provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers through the adaptation and deployment of advanced information technology and engineering services. RCM Technologies implements educational technology that helps schools increase student achievement by connecting people, information, and services. RCM’s intuitive solutions provide schools with powerful student assessment and accountability tools and help educators to make better, more accurate decisions.

Sogeti USA
(800) 899-9849

As one of a handful of Microsoft Global Systems Integrator partners, Sogeti specializes in implementing Microsoft-based technology solutions that improve organizational processes and performance, including .NET Application Transformation, Information Management, Collaboration & Productivity, Infrastructure Transformation, Enterprise Project Management, and Enterprise Business Solutions. Sogeti’s Public Sector Practice provides expertise in delivering solutions are built upon proven and repeatable service offerings, based on industry best practices, and coupled with public sector know-how to help tackle the unique challenges faced by educational institutions.

Solver
(310) 691-5300

Solver is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that provides game-changing performance management and business intelligence service capabilities to mid-sized and large state and local educational institutions. Solver implements innovative business-driven solutions that enable universities and colleges to make dramatic improvements in their planning, reporting and performance management activities. Solver leverages Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence technology platform and complementary value added components such as ProfitBase and Business Intelligence Studio to build planning, analytics, and business monitoring solutions that transform an organization's strategy into actionable results.

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Search for partners in the Microsoft Public Sector Partner Solution MarketPlace, a one-stop Web site for finding technology partners that offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The directory includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Microsoft Certified Partners, and registered members.