CPSI
Product Details
- Website
- http://www.cpsiltd.com
- Overview
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CPSI provides education data integration, validation, identity, warehouse, and reporting software for districts and state education agencies. Its xDStudio platform collects information from multiple operational systems, transforms and validates it, resolves identities, and places it into operational stores or longitudinal data marts for reporting and exchange.
For districts, the platform addresses the recurring work of moving student, staff, and organizational data among SIS, directories, state-reporting systems, and other applications without relying entirely on manual entry or disconnected batch scripts. CPSI supports several education data standards, but much of its public product material is dated, so current product packaging and California support should be verified.
- Features
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Data collection and transformation
- Collects information from multiple systems and converts it into common structures for exchange or storage.
- Supports scheduled or near-real-time workflows depending on the source system and implementation.
Validation and identity- Applies business rules, data-quality checks, error notifications, and record matching.
- Can maintain unique identities and reduce duplicate records across longitudinal datasets.
Operational stores and reporting- Builds operational data stores, warehouses, and functional data marts for district or state use.
- Provides reporting and dashboard capabilities over standardized data.
Education standards- Public materials identify SIF, Ed-Fi, CEDS, PESC, and other education-data formats.
- Districts should confirm the supported version and direction of each connector in their licensed configuration.
Our solution provides everyone in the district – from superintendents to teachers to IT staff – with the underlying foundation to provide up-to-date and “trustworthy” information to all of the applications they use. IT staff is given the tools they need to keep the data up-to-date in real time. Administrators are given the data they need to get funding, allocate resources more effectively, plan school growth, assess teachers, and more. Teachers are enabled with the data they need so they can focus on their education mission and are equipped with the insights to meet the unique needs of individual students. Parents are enabled with a secure environment with real-time information to help them actively engage with teachers. Students are truly able to access the applications they need to succeed.
Build a solid foundation for creating the complete picture of your district through clean, up-to-date and standardized data with the help of CPSI.
Schools use data that comes from many different applications and sources. Student data is entered into the Student Information System while Staff data is stored in the Human Resources System. The problem is that the data in the SIS and HR systems is locked into these applications and people have to re-enter the same data many times. Other applications – such as the cafeteria software, bus systems, library systems, teacher tools, learning management systems – also need this data. Entering data manually is frustrating for users, takes up too much time, and increases the chance of mistakes. The result of this is that data in critical applications is incorrect and out-of-date.
A common approach to addressing the issues of data collection from many different systems is to attempt to synchronize the data from the various sources using SQL scripts and batch file processing. Unfortunately, this method of collection is performed on a scheduled basis. The scheduled file uploads happen once a day, at best, and often times happen closer to once a week or once a month. In these cases, districts do not have data that is up-to-date enough to complete their state reporting or to deliver accurate student rosters to teachers in the classrooms.
When IT staff is loaded with the burden of collecting data in this manner, support tickets add up. This is due to district administrators having wrong data for their reports and teachers seeing incorrect data in their classrooms. This leads to frustration amongst the IT staff members because long hours are spent keeping data up to date. The issue costs the district time and money through wasted hours, especially during busy state reporting periods where the data is essential for district funding. Additionally, when technology becomes a burden on teachers, inaccurate and out-of-date data can lead to lower test scores, loss of funding, and even frustration from parents and students.
CPSI helps districts overcome these challenges. We help schools and districts finally leverage all kinds of data – from rosters to assessment data to attendance and more—across the entire district in real time. With CPSI, all of the school and district staff can be confident that the information on their computer or device always reflects the students and the true “picture” of the data in the district.