Unlike commercial solutions in the market, openSIS requires no upfront license fees saving a school or district incredible amounts of money in implementing a new SIS. Low support and maintenance fees give you complete help desk support at rates more affordable than commercial offerings. Custom services are provided at very low rates helping you to get things done without breaking the bank. Commercial companies, like Pearson, can charge rates over $200 per hour, which will impact budgets very quickly. openSIS is built on 100% free and mature open source software, which means you don’t pay software license fees saving you even more money. Overall TCO can be as high as 75% over similar solutions like Pearson’s PowerSchool or SASIxp.
Impact the education of your students by returning money to the instructional budget as your TCO grows. Studies show that over 65% of a student’s overall learning occurs in the classroom environment. Put money back where it has the greatest impact.
Freedom from Vendor Control
No forced upgrades, no product discontinuation, no required maintenance and support fees. Software vendors get their money selling licenses and support, so naturally they are going to do whatever they can to get you to buy more licenses.
Ever wanted to make a slight change but were faced with proprietary code and license agreements restricting you from modifying that code? OS4Ed gives you the source code so you can modify as you need. Are you using a proprietary solution now? Call them and ask them for the source code so you can make a change to your application and see what they say. It is your application, not ours, so we give you the source code. openSIS is all about freedom and control.
Need help? We will gladly provide custom services for you at rates far lower than commercial software vendors.
Central Administration
Unlike many solutions in the market, openSIS is a centralized relational database eliminating the need for servers in individual schools. This increases security and reduces costs associated with maintenance. If you are using a distributed system, like SASIxp, that requires a server in every school, experience real savings by centralizing your entire application. Reduce your hardware costs and staff costs associated with maintaining those servers.
100% Web Based
No need for client software. Any industry standard web browser will work. Increases productivity and morale through anytime, anywhere access. Have a system that requires a desktop client to be installed? Have many desktops? All of these have to be maintained by IT. Reduces costs of maintaining the desktop by eliminating maintenance associated with upgrades and patches to rich clients. Experience rich client experience with our extensive use of AJAX technologies.
Hosted
OS4Ed hosts solutions in partnership with the NWRDC, Florida’s largest and oldest regional education service center. Enables schools lacking technical skills to use the solution at a fixed annual fee. Returns your focus to what is most important, educating students, and leaves the job of IT to us. Your data is backed up every day. If your server fails, another one takes its place. Always there, always on and always safe, much safer than your place.
Communication
• Administrators, teachers, staff, parents and even students all use the same interface, the same database and the same data. The EasyCom add-on module enhances this with email and SMS text message communication. Parents can subscribe to a library of messages that they want to receive and how they want to receive them. Real customer service that meets your constituents needs in a way they want it done.
Security
openSIS incorporates user profiles and configurable permissions down to the individual field level for read and write access. Fields can be hidden as well. Create special roles with custom permissions easily and quickly with a few mouse clicks. You don’t have to be a programmer to configure openSIS to meet your unique needs.
Open Standards, Open Products
Open source and open standards means easier integration for 3rd party software providers. It also means that clients can modify the solution if they desire. Clients think less about the product requirements and more about using it. OS4Ed is developing API’s that 3rd party companies can use to easily “hook” into our system with their solutions, providing you with truly easy integration capcabilities.
Platform Independence
Windows today, Linux tomorrow. It doesn’t matter as openSIS runs on all major platforms and easily transfers from one to another.
User your existing software and existing skills. No need to by anything new or switch to a new operating system.
Ease of Use, Ease of Administration
Can you surf the web? You can use openSIS! Point and click navigation with an intuitive interface and logical workflows make openSIS exceptionally easy to use. Less training, faster staff adoption rates and easy administration ensure that openSIS is working for you.
End User Customization
• openSIS empowers you enabling you to customize the system to fit your needs without any programming knowledge. Add tabbed categories and multiple fields with little no programming knowledge required. Using only your mouse and your imagination, you can add custom categories and custom fields. It’s really that easy!
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