2012 National PSUG Exhibitors & Sponsors
2012 Exhibitors:
We are now adding all of our sponsors and exhibitors to this page. Please be sure to take the time to check out these very generous people prior to the conference and be sure to stop by their booth to say hi and check out what they have to offer while you are in Las Vegas.
ATTN: Potential 2012 Sponsors/Exhibitors, please email Joe Miller directly for information on the 2012 event (j_miller805@yahoo.com).
ATTN: Potential 2012 Sponsors/Exhibitors, please email Joe Miller directly for information on the 2012 event (j_miller805@yahoo.com).
SPONSORS:
Without the help of our Diamond, Platinum & Gold sponsors, we could not bring you such a quality event! Special thanks to our sponsors listed below:
Diamond Level
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Computer Logic Group
Computer Logic Group is an education solution provider with broad experience with the PowerSchool application. CLG provides a secure hosting service for your PowerSchool application with ODBC and custom/web_root access, PowerSchool Training, Customizations and Help Desk Support! Currently CLG provides hosting for many large, medium and small districts/schools (public, private, parochial and charter) in most states with many international customers!
http://powerschoolsolutions.com/
Contact: Nancy O'Donnell, Director SMS, nodonnell@goclg.com
SchoolMessenger
SchoolMessenger is the fully hosted, software notification platform used by the nation's leading school systems to connect with parents, students and staff through voice, SMS text, email and social media. Whether you use a notification service already, or are just getting started, compare SchoolMessenger side-by-side to any other service in the industry. There is a reason why SchoolMessenger consistently outscores all other providers in rigorous evaluations in the nation's most demanding districts. It integrates with over 130 data sources, translates to more than 30 languages, posts to facebook and twitter, has interactive features such as a survey module, allows classroom messaging for teachers, is easy to use, has powerful reporting, flexible management tools and complex scenario building.
Contact: Nate Brogan, VP of Marketing, nbrogan@schoolmessenger.com
Justin Soltis, Senior Account Executive, jsoltis@schoolmessenger.com
Platinum Level
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infosnap
Our Online Registration eases the paperwork burden for public schools by eliminating some of the most tedious and time-consuming paper processes during registration.
Moving your schools' registration forms online with infosnap Online Registration will significantly streamline the annual student registration process. Your school staff will be relieved of the cost and tedium of printing, sorting and stuffing envelopes on the front end, while saving hours of registration forms processing and manual data entry time on the back end. Parents will also be thrilled to be able to update their child's information from the comfort of their home or office computer at a time that is convenient for them. The entire online school registration process becomes simple and efficient.
Contact: Karin Holtz, Director of Sales and Marketing, Public Schools, Karin@infosnap.com
Level Data
Level Data’s Managed Service keeps student and staff data clean and consistent across all of the different data silos within a district. Enter the data a single time, in a single location, and we take it from there. All additions, deletions, changes and moves are automatically processed and passed to the other applications in the district. Districts experience a dramatic increase in productivity and efficiency. The higher quality datamatched with Special Tools included in our service help districts maximize their state and federal funding. These increases are well in excess of the cost of our service providing desperately needed resources to promote student learning. All of this is delivered as a Managed Service so there is no hardware, software or training and all of the support is included. If you ever considered SIF® or are currently using SIF®, you need to explore the complete solution provided by Level Data.
Contact: Matt Betts, President,mbetts@leveldatainc.com
Phoenix Learning Systems
Phoenix Learning Systems is an education solutions company committed to helping you maximize your technology investments. Our skilled professionals specialize in providing innovative solutions tailored to your specific needs.
The staff at Phoenix Learning Systems are PowerSchool® experts with over 30 years of PowerSchool experience. In fact, we led application design, development and training at PowerSchool® for nearly four years. Whether you require additional expert-level consultation or a new application designed to meet your unique requirements, Phoenix Learning Systems can provide the solution.
Contact: Aaron Rudy, arudy@phoenixlearning.com
Registration Gateway by SRC-Solutions, Inc.
Registration Gateway simplifies the K-12 student registration process through a Web-enabled, user-friendly wizard. The software creates a well-orchestrated process between guardians, school registrars, supporting and trailing documents, signatures, scanning, security and digital notary. At the end of the registration process, Registration Gateway will upload a file into PowerSchool in real time. All student files will be permanently archived inside a secure repository and are digitally locked down on an individual basis so only qualified people can view the information.
Contact: William Baldini www.registrationgateway.com sales@src-solutions.com 1-866-462-5546
School Reach
What we do. SchoolReach is a web based service, or "hosted" solution, that requires no on-site hardware or access to school phone lines for function. Easy-to-use web tools allow school administrators to create and manage parent, staff and faculty contact lists. Outbound messages can take the form of recorded voice, email or short text messages, with robust creation, editing and reporting functionality.
Contact: Chris Sullivan, Business Development Manager, csullivan@schoolreach.com
Gold Level
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Orbit Software
Orbit Software, Inc. specializes in providing a very easy to use routing and scheduling software program with an integrated GIS mapping solution. Since 1998, they have focused on giving school districts and bus contractors the tools that they need to efficiently manage their bus routes for all types of students, including those with special needs. This allows the district to keep costs down while still keeping their students safe. They also offer a web based field trip management service and integrated GPS student and vehicle monitoring compliance. They guarantee they can have BusBoss™ implemented in as little as 4 weeks. For more information please visit: or www.busboss.com
Contact:Sonia M Mastros, President, soniasr@orbitsoftware.net
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2011 Exhibitors:
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Aerohive Networks
Aerohive reduces the cost and complexity of today's networks with cloud-enabled Wi-Fi and routing solutions for medium and large enterprise headquarters, branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. This gives our customers mission critical reliability with granular security and policy enforcement and the ability to start small and expand without limitations.
Contact: Bill Hoppin, VP of Business Development, 408-510-6166 bhoppin@aerohive.com
BLI Messaging
Pearson’s partnership with BLI Messaging enables PowerSchool customers to send messages to their school community via three communication channels directly from within PowerSchool.
Accessible via PowerSchool's interface, you can use this built-in notification system for all your school or district’s communication needs. This integration eliminates multiple system sign-ons and provides administrators with the ability to send a message using the most accurate and up-to-date contact information from a single data source.
Utilizing email, voice, and SMS text messaging, you can send hundreds and thousands of messages instantly and reliably – allowing schools to become more proactive and communicative while improving safety, security and preparedness.
Contact: Mike Tracey, Account Manager, mtracey@blimessaging.com
Bright Arrow
BrightArrow features its Digital Voice Dialer hosted notification system at $1/student/year ($250 minimum) – with no setup charges or multi-year contracts required. BrightArrow’s powerful system quickly delivers unlimited voice calls, e-mails and texts using a fast, simple Web interface. The culmination of ten years of development, the BrightArrow system seamlessly integrates with PowerSchool for hands-free database synchronization and automated attendance and meal balance calls. Digital Voice Dialer provides a broad range of features for weather notices, attendance calls, reminders, and any other types of parent and staff communications. www.BrightArrow.com.
Contact: Raymond Bily, rbily@brightarrow.com
Career Cruising
Career Cruising empowers your students by giving them the tools and information they need to develop comprehensive personal learning plans, using our industry-leading career exploration and portfolio development system. Course Planner saves your district time and resources, with online course selections and simplified CTE tracking. Integrated with our career exploration system, Course Planner helps students make course Selections that reflect their career aspirations and graduation requirements. Features include advisory alerts that relay essential information to students and parents, On-demand reporting with real-time data and complete data integration with Powerschool.
Contact: Max Sadlowski, maxs@careercruising.com
Certica Solutions
Certica Solutions provides P-12 performance management solutions to help administrators and educators easily analyze, track and improve performance through better use of student, school and teacher data. Certica's user community includes over 500 districts, charter and independent schools, and a number of educational service agencies.
Certify™, Certica's hosted data validation service for PowerSchool, is a simple, cost-effective solution that automates and streamlines data validation, monitoring and correction. The Certify Rule Library™, Certica's collection of best-practice data validations, is applied nightly directly to your PowerSchool database, to check for missing, inconsistent or inaccurate data. The Certify Rule Library contains validations in high-impact data areas, including student demographics, enrollment, special programs, discipline and attendance.
Contact: Michelle Romano, mromano@certicasolutions.com
Cherryland Software
Cherryland software specializes in PowerSchool specializations. Owned and led by Brent Johnson, we have several years of experience developing custom reports and features for PowerSchool servers.
Contact: Brent Johnson, brent@cherrylandsoftware.com
e~Funds for Schools (Magic Wrighter, Inc)
Magic-Wrighter, Inc., the parent company of the e~Funds for Schools product and services, provides electronic payment services to over 4,000 schools, 14,000 businesses, 500 municipalities and 500 financial institutions. Our data center meets all PCI requirements for credit card payment services. In addition, our data center has audits conducted by state and federal regulatory agencies.
The company was formed in 1982 for the purpose of providing electronic payment solutions tailored to meet the needs of specific clients. Over the past 10 years the e~Funds for Schools product and services have been continually enhanced in order to meet the payment processing needs of schools throughout the US. Our electronic payment services have been integrated into many school systems, and e~Funds for Schools is currently known as the nation’s best payment processor for schools K-12.
identiMetrics
identiMetrics is the leader in biometric finger scanning technology in schools. identiMetrics provides finger scanning technology solutions to PowerSchool, PowerLunch as well as all of the leading cafeteria POS and library applications.
The identiMetrics Finger Scanning ID System™ is a powerful biometric ID system that uses finger scanning technology to provide indisputable proof of student ID. With just the touch of a finger, it eliminates the need for ID cards and ID numbers allowing schools and school districts to run their schools more efficiently. The system uses a single common database for student ID in the cafeteria, classroom, attendance office, school entrance, nurse’s office, library, book store, for dances and athletic events - everywhere in your schools where you need to accurately identify students.
Contact: Anne Marie Dunphy, CFO, amdunphy@identimetrics.net
Imagination Plus
In addition to award winning website design, Imagination Plus also provides custom application development services and systems integration in both open source and Microsoft technologies.
With nearly a decade’s worth of experience working with special education teachers, IT departments, and senior management on special education challenges we understand the process and the needs of students and stakeholders alike. We believe that together with school boards we can be a powerful instrument of change, driving solutions that will provide responsible innovation today and measurable improvement in the future.
Contact: Colin Duetta, colin@imaginationplus.com
Intellimedia Inc.
K12 Complete
K12complete’s mission is simple: To provide schools with the best and most innovative e-Commerce solution for all payment collection and activity fund needs. K12complete not only saves your school time and money by reducing the handling of cash and check transactions, but it also promotes broad-based community participation and maximizes fundraising potential. All your school related sales, payments and fundraisers can be conducted easily through your unique web store, providing users and administrators a simple, safe and convenient experience. As well, the K12complete platform is 100% PCI compliant meaning that your users’ data is always safe.
Contact: Helene McMurphy, hmcmurphy@k12complete.com
MacroConnect
Macro Connect is Metro Detroit's premiere technology consulting firm specializing in computer support for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and schools. We are experts in designing, implementing and maintaining both wired and wireless networks and information systems.
Contact: Paul Cameron, Paul.Cameron@macroconnect.net
Marcia Brenner Associates
A fully integrated, award-winning web-based, cross-platform student information system that integrates and automates critical functions like attendance, complex scheduling, classroom grading, and reporting.
Marcia Brenner Associates, a Certified Business Associate of Pearson School Systems, in conjunction with e-Funds for Schools offers a secure web based service/program that allows schools to accept online payments from parents (via checking account or by credit card) through your school district’s own website for lunches, registrations, and all other school items or activities.
This service is FREEto the school. It does not cost the school anything to set up or to use throughout the year. e~Funds for Schools interfaces with PowerSchool and PowerLunch so that all funds collected do not require manual entry of funds received. For a demonstration please visit our booth. For more information visit www.efundsforschools.com
Contact: Peter M Brenner, Sales Executive, pbrenner@mba-link.com
Meal Magic
When knowledge, experience, compliancy, support and cutting-edge technologies are important, look to Meal Magic Corporation for the software solutions you need for your food service department. Meal Magic .Net Suite has everything you need to handle state & federal reporting, point-of-sale, free and reduced application processing/verification/direct certification and even USDA approved nutritional analysis & menu planning! www.mealmagic.com
Contact: Brad Boyink, brad.boyink@mealmagic.com
Jeremy Dobberstein, jeremy.dobberstein@mealmagic.com
Pearson (Data Solutions group)
Plasco ID
One Word Defines PlascoTrac: RESULTS
“After PlascoTrac, the culture of our school has taken a positive turn.” – Don Holmes, Dean of Students, Hillcrest High School, IL
PlascoTrac is being used successfully by the top districts and thousands of users every day. Our modular system helps schools get a handle on tardies and other minor disciplinary infractions, but that's just the beginning. PlascoTrac also brings together a suite of tools to help administrators make information-based decisions on the success of their positive behavior and discipline policies. PlascoTrac is proud to be a Pearson ISV partner, which means that the data we collect can be shared with PowerSchool seamlessly. Districts, administrators and teachers agree, PlascoTrac works. Visit us at PSUG 2011 and we’ll quickly show you how.
Contact: Andrea Wilkins, National Sales Manager, awilkins@plascoid.com
PowerData Solutions
The internet has amazing potential and allows for everyone to create whatever they can think of and publish it for everyone to absorb. In the same instance this is a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because it spurs great amounts of creativity, but bad because it also creates "internet sprawl". I'm not sure if it's a real term, but I refer to "internet sprawl" in much the same way people talk about urban sprawl. It's the constant outward expansion away from a central nucleus. For PowerDataSolutions this nucleus is the PowerSchool student system. Pages upon pages of information abound with solutions to your PowerSchool customization problem. This means that to find a solution you may need to go to several different sites. PowerDataSolutions will attempt to combine customization solutions from some of the best users out there. Some pages will contain solutions from users that frequently supply answers but don't necessarily have their own website, others will be pages containing solutions you could find at various other user sites combined into one location. This is the first attempt at this so the site layout and content may shift frequently at first. Please bear with us as we attempt to merge information from many different locations into one spot while not making it overwhelming.
Contact: Jason Treadwell, jason@powerdatasolutions.org
Rycor Software
Rycor Software brings enterprise-class SaaS solutions to PowerSchool. Maximize collections and revenue, guard assets, save time and prevent fraud with Acorn™ Integrated Student Billing, Student QuickPay ™ and Leaf™ Textbook Management.
By integrating with PowerSchool, Acorn automatically assesses, bills and processes all types of school fees, events and tuition in public or private schools while keeping current with schedule and enrollment changes.
Student QuickPay uses your PowerSchool data to create personalized payable items online. Parents can pay for school fees and buy tickets to school events at the same time. Payments are instantly deposited to your merchant account and are automatically allocated to the appropriate GL accounts.
Leaf tracks and protects your valuable textbook assets. Fines for late, lost or damaged textbooks are assessed automatically based on custom class requirements. Through automated inventory tracking and increased loss recovery, Leaf will save your school thousands of dollars every year: http://www.rycorsoftware.com.
Contact: Anna Gradie, anna.gradie@rycorsoftware.com
SameGoal
SameGoal IEP Anywhere is a user-friendly, compliant, and secure program for writing all documents involved in the IEP process. Developed exclusively to meet the unique needs of special education, SameGoal IEP Anywhere offers complete online access with unlimited number of users to collaborate on documents.
Contact: Michael R Forecki, mforecki@samegoal.com
School Office Pro
School Office Pro® is the premier provider of Online Registration and Enrollment solutions for the express purpose of eliminating paper forms from every area of Pre K-12. Our secure system is 100% customizable and puts you in control of the data you collect. Now, ANY forms your using throughout the year can be collected, stored and reported on. Our software is available to be installed locally or as a hosted solution and directly integrates with most student information systems including PowerSchool®.
No Pencils Required ™ www.schoolofficepro.com
Contact: Mike Terrell, VP, Business Development, mterrell@schoolofficepro.com
SIS Resources
SISResources.com is a web site created in 2007 by Matt Freund to provide information to PowerSchool users. Matt has been helping PowerSchool users since 2005 through workshops, inservices, and consulting work. If you’re looking for help with the following, feel free to contact him for a quick and free price quote: Consulting (both onsite and online), Custom Pages, Reports, or Standards. Also, if you're looking for someone to present at your user conference on topics covered on the sisresources.com web site (data mining, sql, pivot tables and charts, reporting engine, customizing, etc.), feel free to contact Matt. If his schedule permits, he’ll be happy to present in exchange for coverage of any travel and lodging expenses.
Contact: Matt Freund, matt@sisresources.com
K-12 Online by Jireh Infosystems
Save money, save time, save paper! K-12 Online is a SaaS solution that provides electronic forms, a webstore, and a point-of sale system for registration and throughout the year. By integrating with PowerSchool®, student information is updated annually thus maintaining accurate, up-to-date records, eliminating data entry, increasing data accuracy and speeding registration. Web-based forms are easily designed. Parents can view forms in several languages and acknowledge online. The captured data can be used to generate customized reports. The integrated webstore with audit tracking allows for fee, fines, school supplies and donation payment. Access to the system is secure.
Contact: Michelle Sam, michelle@jirehinfosystems.com
Without the help of our Diamond, Platinum & Gold sponsors, we could not bring you such a quality event! Special thanks to our sponsors listed below:
Diamond Level
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Computer Logic Group
Computer Logic Group is an education solution provider with broad experience with the PowerSchool application. CLG provides a secure hosting service for your PowerSchool application with ODBC and custom/web_root access, PowerSchool Training, Customizations and Help Desk Support! Currently CLG provides hosting for many large, medium and small districts/schools (public, private, parochial and charter) in most states with many international customers!
http://powerschoolsolutions.com/
Contact: Nancy O'Donnell, Director SMS, nodonnell@goclg.com
SchoolMessenger
SchoolMessenger is the fully hosted, software notification platform used by the nation's leading school systems to connect with parents, students and staff through voice, SMS text, email and social media. Whether you use a notification service already, or are just getting started, compare SchoolMessenger side-by-side to any other service in the industry. There is a reason why SchoolMessenger consistently outscores all other providers in rigorous evaluations in the nation's most demanding districts. It integrates with over 130 data sources, translates to more than 30 languages, posts to facebook and twitter, has interactive features such as a survey module, allows classroom messaging for teachers, is easy to use, has powerful reporting, flexible management tools and complex scenario building.
Contact: Nate Brogan, VP of Marketing, nbrogan@schoolmessenger.com
Justin Soltis, Senior Account Executive, jsoltis@schoolmessenger.com
Platinum Level
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infosnap
Our Online Registration eases the paperwork burden for public schools by eliminating some of the most tedious and time-consuming paper processes during registration.
Moving your schools' registration forms online with infosnap Online Registration will significantly streamline the annual student registration process. Your school staff will be relieved of the cost and tedium of printing, sorting and stuffing envelopes on the front end, while saving hours of registration forms processing and manual data entry time on the back end. Parents will also be thrilled to be able to update their child's information from the comfort of their home or office computer at a time that is convenient for them. The entire online school registration process becomes simple and efficient.
Contact: Karin Holtz, Director of Sales and Marketing, Public Schools, Karin@infosnap.com
Level Data
Level Data’s Managed Service keeps student and staff data clean and consistent across all of the different data silos within a district. Enter the data a single time, in a single location, and we take it from there. All additions, deletions, changes and moves are automatically processed and passed to the other applications in the district. Districts experience a dramatic increase in productivity and efficiency. The higher quality datamatched with Special Tools included in our service help districts maximize their state and federal funding. These increases are well in excess of the cost of our service providing desperately needed resources to promote student learning. All of this is delivered as a Managed Service so there is no hardware, software or training and all of the support is included. If you ever considered SIF® or are currently using SIF®, you need to explore the complete solution provided by Level Data.
Contact: Matt Betts, President,mbetts@leveldatainc.com
Phoenix Learning Systems
Phoenix Learning Systems is an education solutions company committed to helping you maximize your technology investments. Our skilled professionals specialize in providing innovative solutions tailored to your specific needs.
The staff at Phoenix Learning Systems are PowerSchool® experts with over 30 years of PowerSchool experience. In fact, we led application design, development and training at PowerSchool® for nearly four years. Whether you require additional expert-level consultation or a new application designed to meet your unique requirements, Phoenix Learning Systems can provide the solution.
Contact: Aaron Rudy, arudy@phoenixlearning.com
Registration Gateway by SRC-Solutions, Inc.
Registration Gateway simplifies the K-12 student registration process through a Web-enabled, user-friendly wizard. The software creates a well-orchestrated process between guardians, school registrars, supporting and trailing documents, signatures, scanning, security and digital notary. At the end of the registration process, Registration Gateway will upload a file into PowerSchool in real time. All student files will be permanently archived inside a secure repository and are digitally locked down on an individual basis so only qualified people can view the information.
Contact: William Baldini www.registrationgateway.com sales@src-solutions.com 1-866-462-5546
School Reach
What we do. SchoolReach is a web based service, or "hosted" solution, that requires no on-site hardware or access to school phone lines for function. Easy-to-use web tools allow school administrators to create and manage parent, staff and faculty contact lists. Outbound messages can take the form of recorded voice, email or short text messages, with robust creation, editing and reporting functionality.
Contact: Chris Sullivan, Business Development Manager, csullivan@schoolreach.com
Gold Level
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Orbit Software
Orbit Software, Inc. specializes in providing a very easy to use routing and scheduling software program with an integrated GIS mapping solution. Since 1998, they have focused on giving school districts and bus contractors the tools that they need to efficiently manage their bus routes for all types of students, including those with special needs. This allows the district to keep costs down while still keeping their students safe. They also offer a web based field trip management service and integrated GPS student and vehicle monitoring compliance. They guarantee they can have BusBoss™ implemented in as little as 4 weeks. For more information please visit: or www.busboss.com
Contact:Sonia M Mastros, President, soniasr@orbitsoftware.net
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2011 Exhibitors:
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Aerohive Networks
Aerohive reduces the cost and complexity of today's networks with cloud-enabled Wi-Fi and routing solutions for medium and large enterprise headquarters, branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. This gives our customers mission critical reliability with granular security and policy enforcement and the ability to start small and expand without limitations.
Contact: Bill Hoppin, VP of Business Development, 408-510-6166 bhoppin@aerohive.com
BLI Messaging
Pearson’s partnership with BLI Messaging enables PowerSchool customers to send messages to their school community via three communication channels directly from within PowerSchool.
Accessible via PowerSchool's interface, you can use this built-in notification system for all your school or district’s communication needs. This integration eliminates multiple system sign-ons and provides administrators with the ability to send a message using the most accurate and up-to-date contact information from a single data source.
Utilizing email, voice, and SMS text messaging, you can send hundreds and thousands of messages instantly and reliably – allowing schools to become more proactive and communicative while improving safety, security and preparedness.
Contact: Mike Tracey, Account Manager, mtracey@blimessaging.com
Bright Arrow
BrightArrow features its Digital Voice Dialer hosted notification system at $1/student/year ($250 minimum) – with no setup charges or multi-year contracts required. BrightArrow’s powerful system quickly delivers unlimited voice calls, e-mails and texts using a fast, simple Web interface. The culmination of ten years of development, the BrightArrow system seamlessly integrates with PowerSchool for hands-free database synchronization and automated attendance and meal balance calls. Digital Voice Dialer provides a broad range of features for weather notices, attendance calls, reminders, and any other types of parent and staff communications. www.BrightArrow.com.
Contact: Raymond Bily, rbily@brightarrow.com
Career Cruising
Career Cruising empowers your students by giving them the tools and information they need to develop comprehensive personal learning plans, using our industry-leading career exploration and portfolio development system. Course Planner saves your district time and resources, with online course selections and simplified CTE tracking. Integrated with our career exploration system, Course Planner helps students make course Selections that reflect their career aspirations and graduation requirements. Features include advisory alerts that relay essential information to students and parents, On-demand reporting with real-time data and complete data integration with Powerschool.
Contact: Max Sadlowski, maxs@careercruising.com
Certica Solutions
Certica Solutions provides P-12 performance management solutions to help administrators and educators easily analyze, track and improve performance through better use of student, school and teacher data. Certica's user community includes over 500 districts, charter and independent schools, and a number of educational service agencies.
Certify™, Certica's hosted data validation service for PowerSchool, is a simple, cost-effective solution that automates and streamlines data validation, monitoring and correction. The Certify Rule Library™, Certica's collection of best-practice data validations, is applied nightly directly to your PowerSchool database, to check for missing, inconsistent or inaccurate data. The Certify Rule Library contains validations in high-impact data areas, including student demographics, enrollment, special programs, discipline and attendance.
Contact: Michelle Romano, mromano@certicasolutions.com
Cherryland Software
Cherryland software specializes in PowerSchool specializations. Owned and led by Brent Johnson, we have several years of experience developing custom reports and features for PowerSchool servers.
Contact: Brent Johnson, brent@cherrylandsoftware.com
e~Funds for Schools (Magic Wrighter, Inc)
Magic-Wrighter, Inc., the parent company of the e~Funds for Schools product and services, provides electronic payment services to over 4,000 schools, 14,000 businesses, 500 municipalities and 500 financial institutions. Our data center meets all PCI requirements for credit card payment services. In addition, our data center has audits conducted by state and federal regulatory agencies.
The company was formed in 1982 for the purpose of providing electronic payment solutions tailored to meet the needs of specific clients. Over the past 10 years the e~Funds for Schools product and services have been continually enhanced in order to meet the payment processing needs of schools throughout the US. Our electronic payment services have been integrated into many school systems, and e~Funds for Schools is currently known as the nation’s best payment processor for schools K-12.
identiMetrics
identiMetrics is the leader in biometric finger scanning technology in schools. identiMetrics provides finger scanning technology solutions to PowerSchool, PowerLunch as well as all of the leading cafeteria POS and library applications.
The identiMetrics Finger Scanning ID System™ is a powerful biometric ID system that uses finger scanning technology to provide indisputable proof of student ID. With just the touch of a finger, it eliminates the need for ID cards and ID numbers allowing schools and school districts to run their schools more efficiently. The system uses a single common database for student ID in the cafeteria, classroom, attendance office, school entrance, nurse’s office, library, book store, for dances and athletic events - everywhere in your schools where you need to accurately identify students.
Contact: Anne Marie Dunphy, CFO, amdunphy@identimetrics.net
Imagination Plus
In addition to award winning website design, Imagination Plus also provides custom application development services and systems integration in both open source and Microsoft technologies.
With nearly a decade’s worth of experience working with special education teachers, IT departments, and senior management on special education challenges we understand the process and the needs of students and stakeholders alike. We believe that together with school boards we can be a powerful instrument of change, driving solutions that will provide responsible innovation today and measurable improvement in the future.
Contact: Colin Duetta, colin@imaginationplus.com
Intellimedia Inc.
K12 Complete
K12complete’s mission is simple: To provide schools with the best and most innovative e-Commerce solution for all payment collection and activity fund needs. K12complete not only saves your school time and money by reducing the handling of cash and check transactions, but it also promotes broad-based community participation and maximizes fundraising potential. All your school related sales, payments and fundraisers can be conducted easily through your unique web store, providing users and administrators a simple, safe and convenient experience. As well, the K12complete platform is 100% PCI compliant meaning that your users’ data is always safe.
Contact: Helene McMurphy, hmcmurphy@k12complete.com
MacroConnect
Macro Connect is Metro Detroit's premiere technology consulting firm specializing in computer support for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and schools. We are experts in designing, implementing and maintaining both wired and wireless networks and information systems.
Contact: Paul Cameron, Paul.Cameron@macroconnect.net
Marcia Brenner Associates
A fully integrated, award-winning web-based, cross-platform student information system that integrates and automates critical functions like attendance, complex scheduling, classroom grading, and reporting.
Marcia Brenner Associates, a Certified Business Associate of Pearson School Systems, in conjunction with e-Funds for Schools offers a secure web based service/program that allows schools to accept online payments from parents (via checking account or by credit card) through your school district’s own website for lunches, registrations, and all other school items or activities.
This service is FREEto the school. It does not cost the school anything to set up or to use throughout the year. e~Funds for Schools interfaces with PowerSchool and PowerLunch so that all funds collected do not require manual entry of funds received. For a demonstration please visit our booth. For more information visit www.efundsforschools.com
Contact: Peter M Brenner, Sales Executive, pbrenner@mba-link.com
Meal Magic
When knowledge, experience, compliancy, support and cutting-edge technologies are important, look to Meal Magic Corporation for the software solutions you need for your food service department. Meal Magic .Net Suite has everything you need to handle state & federal reporting, point-of-sale, free and reduced application processing/verification/direct certification and even USDA approved nutritional analysis & menu planning! www.mealmagic.com
Contact: Brad Boyink, brad.boyink@mealmagic.com
Jeremy Dobberstein, jeremy.dobberstein@mealmagic.com
Pearson (Data Solutions group)
Plasco ID
One Word Defines PlascoTrac: RESULTS
“After PlascoTrac, the culture of our school has taken a positive turn.” – Don Holmes, Dean of Students, Hillcrest High School, IL
PlascoTrac is being used successfully by the top districts and thousands of users every day. Our modular system helps schools get a handle on tardies and other minor disciplinary infractions, but that's just the beginning. PlascoTrac also brings together a suite of tools to help administrators make information-based decisions on the success of their positive behavior and discipline policies. PlascoTrac is proud to be a Pearson ISV partner, which means that the data we collect can be shared with PowerSchool seamlessly. Districts, administrators and teachers agree, PlascoTrac works. Visit us at PSUG 2011 and we’ll quickly show you how.
Contact: Andrea Wilkins, National Sales Manager, awilkins@plascoid.com
PowerData Solutions
The internet has amazing potential and allows for everyone to create whatever they can think of and publish it for everyone to absorb. In the same instance this is a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because it spurs great amounts of creativity, but bad because it also creates "internet sprawl". I'm not sure if it's a real term, but I refer to "internet sprawl" in much the same way people talk about urban sprawl. It's the constant outward expansion away from a central nucleus. For PowerDataSolutions this nucleus is the PowerSchool student system. Pages upon pages of information abound with solutions to your PowerSchool customization problem. This means that to find a solution you may need to go to several different sites. PowerDataSolutions will attempt to combine customization solutions from some of the best users out there. Some pages will contain solutions from users that frequently supply answers but don't necessarily have their own website, others will be pages containing solutions you could find at various other user sites combined into one location. This is the first attempt at this so the site layout and content may shift frequently at first. Please bear with us as we attempt to merge information from many different locations into one spot while not making it overwhelming.
Contact: Jason Treadwell, jason@powerdatasolutions.org
Rycor Software
Rycor Software brings enterprise-class SaaS solutions to PowerSchool. Maximize collections and revenue, guard assets, save time and prevent fraud with Acorn™ Integrated Student Billing, Student QuickPay ™ and Leaf™ Textbook Management.
By integrating with PowerSchool, Acorn automatically assesses, bills and processes all types of school fees, events and tuition in public or private schools while keeping current with schedule and enrollment changes.
Student QuickPay uses your PowerSchool data to create personalized payable items online. Parents can pay for school fees and buy tickets to school events at the same time. Payments are instantly deposited to your merchant account and are automatically allocated to the appropriate GL accounts.
Leaf tracks and protects your valuable textbook assets. Fines for late, lost or damaged textbooks are assessed automatically based on custom class requirements. Through automated inventory tracking and increased loss recovery, Leaf will save your school thousands of dollars every year: http://www.rycorsoftware.com.
Contact: Anna Gradie, anna.gradie@rycorsoftware.com
SameGoal
SameGoal IEP Anywhere is a user-friendly, compliant, and secure program for writing all documents involved in the IEP process. Developed exclusively to meet the unique needs of special education, SameGoal IEP Anywhere offers complete online access with unlimited number of users to collaborate on documents.
Contact: Michael R Forecki, mforecki@samegoal.com
School Office Pro
School Office Pro® is the premier provider of Online Registration and Enrollment solutions for the express purpose of eliminating paper forms from every area of Pre K-12. Our secure system is 100% customizable and puts you in control of the data you collect. Now, ANY forms your using throughout the year can be collected, stored and reported on. Our software is available to be installed locally or as a hosted solution and directly integrates with most student information systems including PowerSchool®.
No Pencils Required ™ www.schoolofficepro.com
Contact: Mike Terrell, VP, Business Development, mterrell@schoolofficepro.com
SIS Resources
SISResources.com is a web site created in 2007 by Matt Freund to provide information to PowerSchool users. Matt has been helping PowerSchool users since 2005 through workshops, inservices, and consulting work. If you’re looking for help with the following, feel free to contact him for a quick and free price quote: Consulting (both onsite and online), Custom Pages, Reports, or Standards. Also, if you're looking for someone to present at your user conference on topics covered on the sisresources.com web site (data mining, sql, pivot tables and charts, reporting engine, customizing, etc.), feel free to contact Matt. If his schedule permits, he’ll be happy to present in exchange for coverage of any travel and lodging expenses.
Contact: Matt Freund, matt@sisresources.com
K-12 Online by Jireh Infosystems
Save money, save time, save paper! K-12 Online is a SaaS solution that provides electronic forms, a webstore, and a point-of sale system for registration and throughout the year. By integrating with PowerSchool®, student information is updated annually thus maintaining accurate, up-to-date records, eliminating data entry, increasing data accuracy and speeding registration. Web-based forms are easily designed. Parents can view forms in several languages and acknowledge online. The captured data can be used to generate customized reports. The integrated webstore with audit tracking allows for fee, fines, school supplies and donation payment. Access to the system is secure.
Contact: Michelle Sam, michelle@jirehinfosystems.com