Washington school district selects Web-based data management solution

Pearson School Systems, also referred to as Pearson Education, has reportedly announced that Spokane School District 81 in Washington has selected its student data management solution ‘PowerSchool Premier’ as its new Web based Student Information System for implementation by the 2010 school year. The new system will support 52 schools and special programs and approximately 30,000 students across the district.

School officials said the existing application, Schools Administrative Student Information (SASI) System that was also developed Pearson, was outdated in terms of handling the current demand for interlinked Internet, broadband, and Wi-B technologies. Consumers, service providers and companies want simultaneous high definition video streaming, unified communications, Web 2.0 social networks, infrastructural virtualization, Web-based Software as a Solution applications, network operations center offloading, remote backup and super quick environments for cloud computing...