4321 109th Avenue NE >> Blaine, MN 55449 >> 800 850 2335 >> Transforming K12 Education® CHALLENGES With increasing data management needs to comply with state reporting requirements, Byron recognized its legacy SIS was inadequate. Scheduling was becoming increasingly difficult as the counseling staff were trying to meet the individual needs of 550 high school students. Proprietary databases served each separate building and data could not be accessed offsite. “Administrative applications had to be manually installed on computers and linked internally to a server database, ” says Jen Hegna, Byron Director of Information and Learning Technology. “When updates were required, technol- ogy staff would need to visit every office in every school. This meant up to 120 vi

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