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)