Education Technology Labs, a non-profit consortium of K-12 business managers, IT directors and product developers recently announced plan to sponsor its second annual Development and Design Review prior to the UNITE conference March 12 in San Antonio, TX. This year’s Review will be devoted to demonstrating and detailing the development progress and future plans for the Ascent™ product, currently under development by Ed Tech Labs™. For Ed Tech members this will be an exciting presentation as the Ascent™ product demonstration will show Ed Tech™ members progress from the planning and early development stages of a year ago to deliverable product for today. Most informative to members will be a review of the AEE™, Application Execution Environment. Like all Ascent™ products, which by design replace the 5250 "text-based" interface of the CIMS® administrative products with a modern web browser interface. AEE™ is the core Ascent™ module that provides a multi-application access and security for users. For Ed Tech™ members the release of version 1 of AEE™ will provide a signal that their database and IBM iSeries technology will be transcending to the web age, a progression for which many school districts using CIMS® administrative software products have been clamoring.
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Education Technology Labs, a non-profit software research and development company, focused on administrative software for public school districts, recently held their second annual Technology Conference in Park City, Utah on July 9-10. Representatives from 19 states out of the 25 state membership were in attendance. The two-day meetings revealed the forward progress made by the Ed Tech™ software developers towards the first modules of the Ascent™ software application. Demonstrated were features and benefits of the Ascent™ Application Execution Environment (AEE™) the core module of the Ascent™ integrated information system. Steve Swett, Vice President of Product Development, demonstrated how users would be able to manage their productivity through the web-based application. AEE™ will also provide the core security management function for a district, creating user profiles for system, application and screen level security. Open source approaches and opportunities were also emphasized.
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AcuPrint Technology, a leader in secure printing and financial software, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Timpanogos Technologies, a software and support service provider for school districts, to market AcuPrint’s suite of award-winning check fraud prevention solutions to their school district client base. Timpanogos Technologies will offer software users of CIMS® the complete suite of AcuPrint Technology’s secure payment products, including the SecureCheck nX2 MICR laser check and form printing system, the SecurePay positive pay solution, and the ezSigner secure document signing solution. These tools allow CIMS® users to implement a complete end-to-end check fraud protection plan.
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IBM Global Services and Timpanogos Technologies, a business unit of Comstar Computer Systems, Inc. recently entered into an agreement under which IBM Global Services will make available to school districts the advantages of the non-profit research and development entity, Education Technology Labs, with its school administrative software, combined with professional level support and product maintenance through Timpanogos Technologies. The agreement brings together the persons involved with the original creation and licensing of the popular Comprehensive Information Management for Schools (CIMS®) software family of products and an IBM partnering agreement originally established in 1983 to serve the software needs of the education market. The CIMS® products and trademark are owned by NCS Pearson, Inc. They are widely used by schools on the IBM AS/400® and iSeries in support of district and school administration including management of student records, financial accounting and human resources.
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Timpanogos Technologies™, a software support business unit of Comstar Computer Systems, Inc. and Jackson Software, Inc, a leading provider of automated classroom technology recently entered into an agreement under which both companies will market the others’ products to current and prospective customers. The agreement brings together two entities that are working diligently towards integrated software development solutions and support while making use of modern web-based technology and end-user support to administrators, school officials, teachers, parents and students.
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