Implementing Interoperability at the State Level
In the fall of 2001, Visual Software began its journey to take its technology that "added services to existing applications without requiring changes be made to those applications" and modify them to work with an emerging educational standard called SIF, or the Schools Interoperability Framework. This new standard had the promise, and in later years, advantage of allowing educational applications from any compatible vendor to exchange information with any other compatible vendor.In 2007, with the acquisition of our first larger customer (London, with 1.7 million students and 2,700 schools), we began a process to re-design all of our products from the ground up to handle implementations this large and larger where the infrastructure is implemented in a single location and is shared by all the endpoints. (Click article title to read more)
Large-Scale Environments?
On our home page, we claim that our products scale from small to large implementations. Handling a small implementation is easy to imagine, but how large an implementation can our software support?
Some of our smaller examples include single school implementations. Larger examples in education include regional implementations in the UK with 2.7 to 3.2 million learners each, US states with millions of students and nationwide implementations with over 8 million students in attendance...
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Some of our smaller examples include single school implementations. Larger examples in education include regional implementations in the UK with 2.7 to 3.2 million learners each, US states with millions of students and nationwide implementations with over 8 million students in attendance...
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