Timpanogos Technologies is an employee owned company where valued people use and grow their skills, knowledge, professionalism and talents helping customers and enjoying what they are doing -- promoting school districts and the public sector to work together with continuously improved, supported, open source technology.

Our initial core business supports school districts using IBM iSeries™ with CIMS® applications.

We work with Education Technology Labs™, a non-profit research and development corporation, to assure that the continuously improved, supported, open source technology created will always be available to members. Cooperation brings a better long term solution, with a structure for continuous improvement. The resulting programs are supported at commercial strength, but provided as open source through the non-profit entity Education Technology Labs at no license fee. Both administrative software and district prepared curriculum can be shared through the same structure. Districts help one another, and the commercial strength software implemented is not at risk of being bought and shelved by a competing company as has so often been the case.

Company Background
Timpanogos Technologies supports a national base of over 200 school districts in 28 states. Many of our people were the original developers and managers involved in the creation of the K12 administrative software known as CIMS® (Comprehensive Information Management for Schools) which was licensed to IBM in 1983. (The CIMS® product is currently owned by NCS Pearson, with whom we have no affiliation.) Over 1200 school districts used the product at its peak.

In the early 2000's we became aware of high interest nationally by many districts using CIMS® to have expanded web access to their data with comprehensive functionality to be made available on new hardware technology and with web compatible equipment. In response to these requirements and needs, Timpanogos Technologies has created expanded and improved web and data access for these school districts on the IBM iSeries™ and the newly announced IBM eServer i5, one of the most stable, secure and technologically advanced equipment platforms ever offered. To support our current national customer base we have 29 employees headquartered in Utah and five other states. We have business partnerships with 16 various companies in 9 different states. IBM is a key partner and offers our support and development services in all 50 states.

We have extensive software experience in the public sector. In the 1990's, Keith S. Blake, the president of Timpanogos Technologies, worked as a partner and co-founder in developing and creating enterprise software for metropolitan city and county local governments, including Kansas City, Atlanta, Phoenix, Minneapolis, San Diego County, and Los Angeles County.

Products and Services
The Company currently offers the following:

1) Core Ascent™ data base in Student Records, Student Assessment, Financial Systems, Employee-Human Resource Systems, running under Ascent's™ Application Execution Environment (AEE), with secure, controlled access and integrated approval and routing functions, and using optimized Relational-Web for web access.

2) IBM i5 iSeries equipment and network; leading edge technology announced in 2004 with Power5 core chips, dynamic partitioning, multiple concurrent operating systems (including OS/400 and Unix), and capacity on demand. The new systems run in an OS/400 partition. Current UNIX based systems for which there is a need or desire to may run simultaneously in a second partition. Data is available to multiple partitions. Windows partitions may also be configured on the i5.

3) Training on the effective use of CIMS® applications and IBM equipment.

4) Promotes membership and participation in Education Technology Labs (Ed Tech), promoting cooperative development and sharing of administrative software for schools, and shareable curriculum, standards, assessment and instructional materials, managed as modern digital information.

5) GradeQuick, leading, integrated gradebook through our business partner, Jackson Software.

6) Parent@School, Ed Tech Lab's open source offering, supported by Timpanogos Technologies allowing controlled access to student records.

7) Advanced Systems Concepts's Sequel data analysis and reporting tool through our business partner, ASC.

8) Text book Management, Work Order Management, Warehouse Management, On-Line Requisitioning and Purchasing / Bid Management through our business partner, Gateway Software.

Approach
The Company's approach is anchored with:

1) Extensive K-12 school industry experience, and K-12 school software experience;

2) Experienced project leadership;

3) Leading technology equipment; over 100 partitions may be defined in the new IBM i5 iSeries™, including OS/400 for Ascent™, AIX for Unix, multiple web servers, all duplicated in both production and test environments;

4) Technology cooperation and sharing through the structure of Education Technology Labs and supported open source offerings, specifically promoting sharing and cooperation with school districts nationally; the structure provides for continuous improvement through a national user group, along with the structure for a state user groups.

5) State and Federal Reports Approach: We promote cooperation between schools nationally for federal reports, and within states for state reports and submissions from an Ascent™ compatible data base on both student and financial information.

6) System Implementation with full and experienced project management.

7) Local support, product and marketing business partners.