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Technologists Accountability requirements demand more data and deeper levels of analysis from districts, while IT budgets and staff are shrinking. As a result, district IT organizations are increasingly being asked to do more with less. Some of the biggest challenges are listed below. Challenges - Upgrading and maintaining legacy systems and network infrastructure
- Resolving inconsistency of data resulting from a distributed organization with no enforceable process to ensure data integrity
- Supporting and training users on multiple, disparate applications
- Implementing and integrating new systems
- Gathering clear and consistent application requirements that address the district’s strategic educational goals
- Ensuring performance, availability, and security of all systems
To address these challenges, district IT groups purchase multiple systems to address individual requirements. This often requires hiring expensive external consultants to help integrate the disparate systems to fit into a district’s educational strategy. Because many of these systems are on-premise, the cost of implementing, customizing, upgrading, and maintaining these systems is prohibitive. Edgenuity is committed to relieving IT departments of the burden of managing traditional software and its hidden costs, high failure rates, unacceptable risks, and protracted implementations. As a hosted solution, Edgenuity does not require software or hardware purchase, installation, maintenance, or upgrades. The burdens of support and security are carried by Edgenuity. With the Edgenuity Achievement Suite, district IT professionals can focus on maintaining the district’s critical network infrastructure, providing timely support to school sites, and managing other resources that advance the district’s educational strategy. Edgenuity supports the success of IT departments in the following manner: Benefits - Instant configuration and upgrades of the system
- Full integration of core applications
- Persistent analyses and reporting of student performance data with anytime, anywhere access using only a browser
- Exports of data for state and district reporting requirements
- User support and training of Edgenuity applications
- Nightly backups and redundant systems for superior uptime performance and security
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