Procurement of a new Management Information System (MIS) is a significant undertaking for any school or Multi Academy Trust (MAT) and professional advice at every step of this journey is paramount.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is delving into potential misconduct by Education Software Solutions Ltd (ESS), amid suspicions that the company may have abused its dominant position.
What do the various MIS providers offer to help schools with timetabling – we asked and they answered.
Last week we posted an article on finance systems within an MIS. In this post we look at reporting and analytics functionality, and specifically about the use of AI.
We asked the MIS providers how they handle data migration in light of recent announcements relating to the inappropriate use of backup files.
IRIS Software Group have become the first MIS provider to announce that they have released a full Welsh language version of their MIS product..
The spring term has been hectic for us at WhichMIS? and we thought as we rapidly approach the end of term it might be a good idea to offer a refresh on what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks.
Whilst ESS argue that there are easy and approved methods for migrating school data when changing from SIMS to another provider, schools, MATs, Support Teams and other MIS providers all argue that these methods are not the best way to handle the data migration and that the use of a SIMS backup file for this purpose has been ‘industry standard’ for many years.
We have posted two articles recently around concerns raised over ESS SIMS’ warning to schools and to other MIS providers around using the SIMS backup files for data migration purposes. In this post we let you hear what ESS SIMS have to say about this subject.
At the recent BETT 2024 event, we took the opportunity to interview some of the key personnel from the MIS providers that were exhibiting.
The first video interview is with Fergal Moane, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Bromcom.
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