K-12: Insight at school

The goal

Make well-informed, data-driven decisions

Does your district sort through information from multiple systems and schools to generate provincially mandated reports...assess student achievement...evaluate program effectiveness? With IBM Insight at School, our data warehousing solution, you can have a consolidated view of the information you need to help make well-informed, data-driven decisions.

The advantage

A solution designed with and for education

Based on our extensive implementation experience with school districts, we designed IBM Insight at School to be easy to use and relevant to your district's issues.

IBM helps many schools make data-driven decisions with IBM Insight at School, including:

• Hamilton-Wentworth DSB, ON
• Broward County Public Schools, FL
• Cherokee County Public Schools, GA
• Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA
• Cleveland Municipal School District, OH
• Fulton County Public Schools, GA
• Palatine Public Schools (CCSD 15) IL
• Trenton Public Schools, NJ
• Winston Salem Public Schools, NC
• Atlanta Public Schools, GA

The benefits

Address the issues critical to your district

IBM Insight at School brings together integrated information from multiple sources, which allows your educators to focus on improvements through tracking and accountability.

Larger districts with 30,000 or more students -- and districts with unique decision support requirements or other special analysis needs -- can benefit from our solution with:

• An analysis of their business processes and a customized solution for their specific needs
• Special training to assist users in creating customized reports, plus additional skills training for your technical staff

Smaller districts or agencies may benefit from our out of the box IBM Insight at School option. It features:

• Lower cost and faster deployment, 8-12 weeks for an average deployment
• Predefined requirements common to your province
• Preferred reports
• Training to assist users in accessing and manipulating reports

With either a full services engagement or an out of the box solution, you can choose to have IBM host your data warehouse. Our hosting services can allow your staff to access reports over a secure Internet connection, while freeing up your internal IT staff.

The ROI

Leverage a cost effective solution

Districts and educational agencies today are spending increasingly larger portions of their budget on data collection for reports.

IBM Insight at School can help you:

• Effectively monitor student achievement and assess the quality of learning
• Reduce operating expenses by implementing administrative application systems to cut down on paperwork
• Retain and attract students to your school by enhancing professional development