In most larger organizations, several computer applications are used to support the process of educating students, in one way or another. The majority of these applications know about who attends the school, who teaches there, and who the teachers are. Some of them know the students' schedules while others know details such as the grades they received or detailed health-related information such as immunizations or records of injuries. The point is that much of this information is common to many of them.

So, what is the "best" approach to managing the information that is shared by these applications?

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