The CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) have decided to close their investigation into concerns that ESS (Education Software Solutions) may have broken the law by taking action to prevent schools from switching from their SIMS software to an alternative MIS (Management Information System) provider.
Now we’re in the summer holiday period, we thought it worth asking what release plans MIS providers have.
UK Management Information System (MIS) providers must continuously update their products to keep pace with the rapidly evolving technological landscape and the dynamic needs of their users.
Recruitment and retention are significant issues for all schools and Trusts. Our friend, Simon Freeman from IRIS Software Group has recently written an article discussing
Arbor announced today their acquisition of SAMpeople and FusionHR to the Arbor family.
In a press release today, Bromcom announced that they have been chosen to provide the management information system (MIS) and Finance software for Wrexham County Borough Council’s 71 schools.
Earlier this month, Bromcom announced that they were offering a £1,000 prize to anyone solving the issue of how schools migrating away from the ESS SIMS MIS to another provider could ensure that they can migrate all the school data easily and comprehensively.
With a large number of schools and MATS considering the churn in the MIS sector, we’re finishing our series of articles based on popular requirements that some might consider are on the periphery of core functionality.
Today we look at Homework functionality.
Continuing our series of articles based on popular requirements that some might consider are on the periphery of core functionality.
Today we’re looking at HR provision.
With the UK General Election less than two weeks away, and the 2024 Labour manifesto promising to create 3,000 new school-based nurseries, we started to wonder whether the UK’s existing school MIS platforms are suitable.
WhichMIS? was pleased to be invited to attend the annual Bromcom event, held at the Shard in London on 12th June.
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