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Make your data more valuable to education agencies
By allowing your data to travel fluidly to other systems and reports, the data becomes more valuable to your customers. If data from one area—for example, assessment—can be combined with data in other areas—say, attendance—educators get a more complete view of their students.
Reduce costs and customization around data usage
You may be barraged with "one-off" requests for data in or data out from your customers. And you may define your own processes and specifications for data in. If everyone "does their own thing" in this way, agencies get saddled with a complex set of nightly ETLs (often porting data between many different systems via fragile Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes).
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Everyone benefits, including teachers and students.
Contribute to a more secure ecosystem
Ad-hoc integrations prevent a clear and controlled approach to data security and privacy. Concerns about data security are well-founded. Standardized integrations allow you to focus on common patterns and points of intersection and allow education agencies to understand where and how data is moving. System-to-system communications eliminate intermediaries like SFTP sites and manual transmission of files, which are often far less secure and more difficult to monitor.
Key Concepts
- Standardized data exchange develops new value for existing data and reduces costs of system integrations, all while improving security.