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The role of the MIS in an organization can be compared to the role of heart
in the body. The information is the blood and MIS is the heart. In the body
the heart plays the role of supplying pure blood to all the elements of the
body including the brain. The heart work faster and supplies more blood
when needed. It regulates and controls the incoming impure blood,
processed it and sends it to the destination in the quantity needed. It
fulfills the needs of blood supply to human body in normal course and also
in crisis.
The MIS plays exactly the same role in the organization. The system
ensures that an appropriate data is collected from the various sources,
processed and send further to all the needy destinations. The system is
expected to fulfill the information needs of an individual, a group of
individuals, the management functionaries: the managers and top
management.
Here are some of the important roles of the MIS:
i. The MIS satisfies the diverse needs through variety of systems such as
query system, analysis system, modeling system and decision support
system.
ii. The MIS helps in strategic planning, management control, operational
control and transaction processing. The MIS helps in the clerical personal
in the transaction processing and answers the queries on the data
pertaining to the transaction, the status of a particular record and
reference on a variety of documents.
iii. The MIS helps the junior management personnel by providing the
operational data for planning, scheduling and control , and helps them
further in decision-making at the operation level to correct an out of
control situation.
iv. The MIS helps the middle management in short term planning, target
setting and controlling the business functions. It is supported by the use of
the management tools of planning and control.
v. The MIS helps the top level management in goal setting, strategic
planning and evolving the business plans and their implementation.
vi. The MIS plays the role of information generation, communication,
problem identification and helps in the process of decision-making. The
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It goes without saying that all managerial functions are performed through
decision-making; for taking rational decision, timely and reliable
information is essential and is procured through a logical and well
structured method of information collecting, processing and disseminating
to decision makers. Such a method in the field of management is widely
known as MIS. In todays world of ever increasing complexities of business
as well as business organization, in order to service and grow , must have
a properly planned, analyzed, designed and maintained MIS so that it
provides timely, reliable and useful information to enable the
management to take speedy and rational decisions.
MIS has assumed all the more important role in todays environment
because a manager has to take decisions under two main challenges:
First, because of the liberalization and globalization, in which
organizations are required to compete not locally but globally, a manager
has to take quick decisions, otherwise his business will be taken away by
his competitors. This has further enhanced the necessity for such a
system.
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On the other hand, the MIS which is not adequately planned for
analyzed, designed, implemented or is poorly maintained may provide
developed inaccurate, irrelevant or obsolete information which may
prove fatal for the organization.
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to follow and use systems and procedures. This process brings a high
degree of professionalism in the business operations.
The goals and objectives of the MIS are the products of business goals and
objectives. It helps indirectly to pull the entire organization in one
direction towards the corporate goals and objectives by providing the
relevant information to the organization.
A well designed system with a focus on the manager makes an impact on
the managerial efficiency. The fund of information motivates an
enlightened manager to use a variety of tools of the management. It helps
him to resort to such exercises as experimentation and modeling. The use
of computers enables him to use the tools and techniques which are
impossible to use manually. The ready-made packages make this task
simple. The impact is on the managerial ability to perform. It improves
decision-making ability considerably high.
Since, the MIS work on the basic system such as transaction processing
and database, the drudgery of the clerical work is transferred to the
computerized system, relieving the human mind for better work. It will be
observed that lot of manpower is engaged in this activity in the
organization. Seventy (70) percent of the time is spent in recording,
searching, processing and communicating. This MIS has a direct impact on
this overhead. It creates information based working culture in the
organization.
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New business models can be created and these can describe how a
company produce, create and sell there products.
http://www.porterwright.com/implementation-of-information-
systems-practice-areas1/
Taking advantage of todays information technology opportunities and
meeting related legal obligations usually requires enlisting the help of
technology professionals and legal counsel. Our attorneys work
proactively with clients in evaluating the legal issues associated with
implementing technology solutions before, during and after the
implementation. Clients seek our advice about regulatory requirements
during the procurement process for information technology services, and
we help them to negotiate risk-allocation, remedies and insurance clauses
in contracts. We can assist in developing comprehensive information
technology acquisition strategies, including development of standard
forms of agreements for use with information technology vendors.
Specific areas include:
ERP Implementations
Hardware acquisition and financing agreements
Systems integration agreements
Disaster recovery agreements
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Source:
http://in.pcmag.com/cloud-services/98328/feature/10-business-
intelligence-trends-for-2016
BY ROB MARVIN
DE. 11, 2015, 9 P.M.
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Vesset, IDC's Program Vice President for Business Analytics and Big
Data, also projects that spending on self-service visual discovery and
data preparation tools will grow 2.5x faster in 2016 than traditional ITcontrolled tools, and said it will necessitate a fundamental IT culture
change.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2015/12/10/business-
intelligence-has-evolved-into-simplified-and-accessible-platforms/
Businesses have been accumulating data for ages. Data is used to drive
the decision-making process, and helps optimize workflows, marketing,
product delivery, and customer relationship management. High-end
computing has made data analysis more accessible, although it has not
always been an elegant and efficient affair.
Much of the data-driven activities in the 1960s and 1970s dealt with
statistical analysis. In the 1980s, data mining and knowledge discovery
was all the rage. By the mid 1990s and early 2000s, businesses started
crunching bigger amounts of data, and the usage of the term data
science first came into wide usage.
Data science continues to evolve, and we are fortunate to live in an era
that has fostered advancements in architecture that enable businesses to
accomplish complex analysis with the simplicity of self-service platforms.
For example, advancements in data processing capabilities can
significantly enhance the performance of data analytics platforms, to the
extent that data crunching no longer has to be particularly costly terms of
time and resources.
Data warehousing is not enough
One inherent problem with data science for businesses is the complexity
of running BI stacks. Traditionally, these meant separate systems for
storing, manipulating, querying and visualizing data, particularly when
many disparate or diverse data sources are involved. These scenarios
would often require building a data warehouse, which in turn would often
turn into a considerable time and money sink as organizations struggled
to maintain the DW alongside all the additional systems used to prepare
and visualize the data.
The focus of next-generation business intelligence tools is therefore in
reducing the complexity needed for businesses to make more sense out of
the mountains of data they are likely to be sitting on. Here we can
highlight two business intelligence platforms that simplify data science,
such that businesses of all scales from startup to enterprise can leverage
the power of BI in making better data-driven decisions.
Sisense: Simplifying BI for Complex Data
Gradually replacing the traditional BI model were currently accustomed to
is the single-stack model embodied by Sisense, a data analytics solutions
provider that focuses on simplifying BI for businesses. Sisense puts the
entire data processing chain into a single streamlined process akin to
designing a simple flowchart, with an accessible drag-and-drop interface.
Through its algorithm, data processing is done efficiently, and drastically
shortening the data preparation stage by eliminating the need to create
indexes or aggregations in advance.
business units and individuals freedom via the use of 'virtual spaces.' Via
the same governance layer, Birst also offers the ability to live-query onpremises data stores."
Introduced in September 2015, Networked BI leverages Birst's modern,
multi-tenant cloud architecture that enables companies to tap into the
power of their data, whether in the cloud or on-premises. This "networked
effect" creates an interwoven data fabric that delivers business-user selfservice while avoiding analytical silos, resulting in faster and more trusted
decision-making.
In its evaluation of Birst, the report also notes that, "Its 'open client
interface' allows customers to use alternative front ends, such as Excel or
Tableau. It supports offline capabilities on mobile devices, and an
appliance is available for deployment within corporate data centers. The
solution is also attractive to ISVs and enterprises that want to embed BI
capabilities in web portals and business applications."
Jay Larson, Birst CEO, said, "We believe our position as a leader in The
Forrester Wave" for Cloud Business Intelligence Platforms results from our
pioneering work to create a next-generation, cloud-architected BI
platform. Birst empowers user-led decentralized business units while at
the same time supporting the enterprise requirements of centralized BI/IT
teams. Our unique ability to deliver speed, agility, and ease-of-use,
without compromising data governance and scalability, is redefining the
way companies think about BI. The legacy BI platforms are in rapid decline
because there is a better way to do analytics today, and that better way is
Birst."
Tweet this: News: @forrester positions @BirstBI as a Leader in The
Forrester Wave for Cloud Business Intelligence Platforms 2015 Report
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About Birst Birst is the global leader in Cloud Business Intelligence (BI)
and Analytics for the Enterprise. Birst's Networked BI platform redefines
the way BI is delivered and consumed, eliminating analytical silos to
dramatically improve the speed, alignment and economics of BI across the
enterprise. Built on top of Birst's next-generation, multi-tenant cloud
architecture, Networked BI enables centralized and decentralized BI
applications to be transparently connected via a shared analytical data
fabric, delivering local execution with global governance. Today, Birst
serves thousands of organizations across the globe by making trusted
enterprise business data a part of everyday operational decision making.
Learn more at www.birst.com and join the conversation @BirstBI.
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8. Hootsuite ties into Microsoft's Dynamics CRM to turn likes into leads
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More companies are turning to social media as a way to communicate
with their customers, and Hootsuite is working with Microsoft to make that
even easier through an integration with the company's products.
The social media management platform, which offers companies a variety
of tools to better work with their social media presence across services
including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, on Tuesday announced new
ways to connect to Dynamics CRM Online, SharePoint and Yammer.
First off, users will be able to identify leads, opportunities and cases from
social media posts in Hootsuite and then put them directly into Dynamics
where they can be acted on by a sales or customer service team. Users
can also attach social data to a customer's record inside Dynamics so that
it's possible to have a fuller (if creepier) picture of who a company is
selling to.
Integrating Dynamics with Hootsuite is an important move for Microsoft.
The smaller company already has an integration with Salesforce, which
Dynamics is competing with in the CRM market. That integration should
also help companies that use Microsoft's customer management tool,
since customers are increasingly taking to social media to discuss their
experiences with companies.
Hootsuite's connection with SharePoint lets users save social media posts
from networks like Twitter and Facebook to public and team Sites. Users
will also be able to bring up content from SharePoint in Hootsuite's
dashboard, alongside other social feeds.
People who use Microsoft's Yammer social network to connect with other
people in their company can now view content from and post directly to it
from the Hootsuite dashboard. They can also share posts from other social
networks to Yammer from Hootsuite's dashboard to pull in outside content
for discussion among co-workers.
These features should give people who manage social media accounts for
a company that's tightly integrated with Microsoft's services a single place
to go in order to work with other people inside their organization. This isn't
the first time Hootsuite has integrated with collaboration tools. Companies
can also connect the social media service with applications including
Google Drive, Box and HipChat.
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First off, users will be able to identify leads, opportunities and cases
from social media posts in Hootsuite and then put them directly into
Dynamics where they can be acted on by a sales or customer service
team.
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Top vendors in this market are - Aplicor IBM Infor Microsoft Oracle
salesforce.com SAP Promising vendors in the CRM market in China 800App CRM Kingdee Neusoft Yonyou Other prominent vendors
included in this report are Amdocs, AsiaInfo-Linkage, Avidian, NetSuite,
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Source: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090906/It/it01.html
By Ainsley Wirekoon
PowerPoint Presentations
E-Commerce
Preservice
Teacher
Education:
4Applications in Teaching Methods - Anyone who will be involved in
teaching, whether in a formal setting like the public schools or in an
informal setting like an extension workshop, needs to know how to
incorporate information technology into their daily teaching.
4 Student Teaching - In some instances, it can be difficult to visit student
teachers. With fewer faculties available to supervise interns and added
responsibilities, sometimes supervision needs to be done in an
alternative way.
Professional
Development:
4Alternative Certification Programs - In many countries, there is a
shortage of teachers. These "beginning" teachers have no training in
program planning or teaching methods, yet countries are willing to place
them in classroom situations.
4 Graduate Education - Many teachers want to earn higher degrees, but
have difficulty in finding the time to complete degrees. With the wide
array of information technologies available, teachers can complete
courses from the convenience of their office or home and never have to
set
foot
on
campus
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4Technical Updates - Individuals who need to get updated about technical
information in agriculture can easily look at information if it is placed on a
web-site.
In order to take the real status of agricultural production and marketing,
there is an urgent need to develop the following items:
4Farmers' crop database must be managed. The database includes the
kinds of crops, the size of cultivated area, time of harvest and yield.
Farmers or the extension personnel transmit those data via the Internet
to a database server.
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information
service
system
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be
created.
There are many ways in which Information Technology can be used to
exchange the information rather effectively through communication like
information kiosks which provide not only the basic services like email,
helps in education, health services, Agriculture and Irrigation, online
trading, community services etc., expert systems which helps in
determining marketing alternatives and optimal strategies for producers,
integrated crop management systems for different crops.
The use of IT in agribusiness in some countries is quite advanced. The
situation in Sri Lanka is quite different, with low levels of computer
literacy and usage in the farm sector, with technology transfer 'across the
last mile' remaining the weakest link in the Sri Lanka. But farmers often
go to great efforts to obtain better information, and much attention is
being given by the Government and NGOs to the development of wireless
networks, tele centers and other methods for promoting IT access and
knowledge diffusion in the rural sector in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, IT is
likely to become increasingly important in innovation diffusion in
agriculture, in both developed countries and in developing economies
such as Sri Lanka. In implementing policies to this end, Sri Lanka must
give due attention to the complex interactions between the many players
to the role of tacit knowledge and social actors, and to the low level of
the IT literacy in the rural sector.
Lack of information at the proper time causes a huge loss to farmers. This
gap in communication may be bridged by information technology.
Information of the required quality always has the potential of improving
efficiency in all spheres of agriculture.
In the context of rice processing industry the potential of information
technology can be assessed broadly under two heads: (a) as a tool for
direct contribution to rice milling productivity and (b) as an indirect tool
for empowering millers to take informed and quality decisions which will
have positive impact on the way rice processing and allied activities are
conducted.
The techniques of remote sensing using satellite technologies,
geographical information systems, and agronomy and soil sciences are
used to increase the rice output. This approach is capital intensive and
useful where large tracts of land are involved.
The use of IT in agriculture has grown rapidly in the past few years. It is
increasingly being used to help managers make better decisions.
However, IT and the problem facing decision makers are constantly
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Presently, almost every company has its own web site The following
are specific ways information technologies being applied through
agricultural education: Basic Internet Applications PowerPoint
Presentations Global Position-ing Systems (GPS) E-Commerce
Preservice Teacher Education: 4Applications in Teaching Methods Anyone who will be involved in teaching, whether in a formal setting
like the public schools or in an informal setting like an extension
workshop, needs to know how to incorporate information technology
into their daily teaching.
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Broad data access, so any information in any source, including realtime transactional systems, relational data warehouses, cubes, and any
Source:
http://www.iamwire.com/2015/12/data-analytics-startup-realbox-
helps-offline-businesses-generate-revenue/128209
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Offline business owners are deprived of the user level intelligence and
business analytics that online companies easily get due to technology. In
order to empower offline stores with a tool that can help them gain more
insights about their business, Realbox came into being.
Delhi-based data analytics startup, Realbox was founded in March 2015 by
Saurabh Moody, Preksha Kaparwan and Arjun Sudhanshu. The startup
helps offline businesses generate more revenue by marketing to their
existing consumer base and sending them personalized marketing deals.
With data analytics and business intelligence they can get into focused
customer targeting and track conversion to increase sales.
Its product Pulse is like Google Analytics for offline businesses. It analyses
and presents business summary right on users mobile phone. It can be
used by multiple partners in real time, so user know exactly whats going
on in their store or restaurant. If you have multiple stores, you can have
the luxury of seeing your business overview and store by store
performance measured against your chosen KPIs (Key Performance
Indicators), the startup says.
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If you have multiple stores, you can have the luxury of seeing your
business overview and store by store performance measured against
your chosen KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), the startup says.
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In order to empower offline stores with a tool that can help them
gain more insights about their business, Realbox came into being.
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As storage continues to evolve, its clear that the days when storage
administrators spent their time manually optimizing the storage of data
are coming to a close. Now well see increased reliance on analytics and
automation to handle those tasks. That doesnt necessarily mean there
wont be a need for storage administrators going forward. But it does
mean that not only will the amount of data that storage administrators will
be expected to manage increase, so too will the accuracy in terms of
determining the exact amount of storage resources any application needs
regardless of what it happens to be running on at any given time.
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Tintri this week also expanded the number of virtual machines it can
integrate with via support for Citrix XenServer, while adding an entrylevel, all-Flash array to its portfolio of storage arrays.
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In fact, with the latest release of the Tintri operating system, Tintri is
now also adding support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols)
as well as support for SyncVM File-level restore, WMI Path Encryption,
snapshot enhancements, and PowerShell cmdLets in Microsoft Hyper-V
environments.
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But it does mean that not only will the amount of data that storage
administrators will be expected to manage increase, so too will the
accuracy in terms of determining the exact amount of storage
resources any application needs regardless of what it happens to be
running on at any given time.
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Thats significant, says Dubuque, because its clear that there are
now more heterogeneous virtual machine environments than ever
trying to access multiple classes of persistent storage mechanisms.
Source: http://www.informationbuilders.com/enterprise-data-quality
A good enterprise data quality solution can detect data quality issues
before they impact production systems.
Enterprise data quality is a critical, yet elusive goal for many organizations
today. In order to ensure enterprise data quality, companies must develop
comprehensive rules, policies, and procedures to eliminate errors,
mistakes, duplication, and inconsistencies in their back-end systems and
sources. They must also implement cutting-edge technology tools to
facilitate the ongoing execution and enforcement of those guidelines.
Companies of all sizes, across all industries, are struggling to achieve and
maintain enterprise data quality.
Lack of an effective enterprise data quality program can have a
tremendous negative impact across a business. One single piece of invalid
or "dirty" data can create countless problems, wreaking havoc as it flows
during the course of business processes, permeating many different
information sources. For example, an incorrect client address in a CRM
application can waste significant amounts of time and money, affecting
everything from order delivery and invoicing, to customer support, field
service, and marketing and promotions. Or, a missing part number in a
materials management system can hinder the efficiency of purchasing
and procurement activities, and eat away at sales and profits by slowing
down manufacturing processes.
People also play an important role in an enterprise data quality initiative.
Because it is a widespread and ongoing effort, a successful enterprise
data quality strategy absolutely must have sponsorship and support at the
executive level. IT staff, as well as the business people who actually
consume and use the data in question, must also be very closely involved
throughout the process. Additionally, data stewards must also be
designated, so those who will be held accountable for preserving data
integrity are fully aware of their responsibilities.
But perhaps the most important component of an enterprise data quality
initiative is the technology tools that drive the strategy forward. The right
solution will offer a wide array of capabilities - from data profiling,
validation, and cleansing through enrichment and data governance - to
make information as timely and trusted as possible. The solution must
also have broad information reach, with the ability to uncover and rectify
invalid or incorrect information in any system, database, application,
document, or message. It's also extremely useful to address the issue of
enterprise data quality in real-time - preventing bad data from ever
entering your corporate information systems. As they say, an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Unlike other data quality tools on the market today, which simply
find and correct dirty information, Information Builders iWay Data
Quality Suite is designed to take data quality management one step
further, dynamically blocking bad information before it ever makes its
way into enterprise systems.
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there unprepared, but at least all your data entry is done. So its that bit
that slides.
James Weatherill, founder of another MIS provider, Arbor Education,
agrees: Teachers are having to enter more and more data, because the
government wants more insight, so the problem is going to exacerbate.
Its causing a lot of workload issues.
Yet the pull within SIMS is to look at the collection of data in a more
microscopic scale in real-time, in the classroom, as things happen.
Neal, who has remained as company director, plans to change the
software package so schools are more able and likely to do so, with the
choice to use SIMS for purely administrative purposes gradually phased
out.
But he is adamant the shift will reduce teacher stress, as it will tackle the
biggest cause of headaches: poor pupil behaviour.
I do wonder if some of the issues in terms of bureaucracy complaints are
because its tough being a teacher. There is an element of unaspirational
parents who dont instill into their children the value of education Its
behaviour thats the issue, he says.
The new SIMS app therefore focuses on microdata: what time a pupil
arrives to a lesson, how well they behave in each class, and the quality of
their classroom effort all entered in real time during the lesson by
teachers with tablets who tap behaviour or praise points beside a childs
name. The information is then fed straight into a central dashboard
where senior leadership can see it.
This newest version of SIMS is used by Jayne Mullane, headteacher of
Mersey Vale Primary School near Manchester. She checks her dashboard
of information on student progress and hour-by-hour incidents up to 20
times a day.
It gives me a view I didnt have before. My homepage on my PC is set up
so that I can instantly see if any children get comments about behaviour
or work. And thats really powerful, because I can go into the classroom
and say I noticed you did some really good work.
Data is not just being collected in classrooms, but may soon be handed
over to the children themselves. Graham Cooper, head of product strategy
at Capita SIMS, wants to increase the gameification of data. The kids
can get their 50 behaviour points, their no-lates, the 95 per cent
attendance rate, he says. This idea is still in the pipeline, but parents are
already able to access rolling information on their child via a SIMS app.
Jayne Mullane
More than 1,000 schools also use Capitas text alerts telling parents of late
arrivals and playground incidents. Schools, however, are still nervous
about this, Neal says, as inaccurately entered data can land them in hot
water.
Indeed, at Mersey Vale, Mullane holds specific staff meetings just to
ensure the information gets properly entered.
The workload implications are therefore a balance. Its not necessarily a
problem if microdata collection proves to be an effective method of
keeping control in the classroom. Nor if using these new tools remains
merely a matter of teacher choice.
Yet these are now being called into question by Neals plans to make the
collection of microdata more difficult to avoid. He would like the
dashboard used by Mullane of her own volition to be compulsory
viewing. Unless headteachers know what these systems can do, he says,
they are not adequately reducing burdens on their teachers.
We have a dashboard that you can customise, and we made the mistake
of making that optional; not enough schools realise its there, he says.
In the future Im going to force it on them, so when they bring it up its all
in front of their eyes.
If school leaders are encouraged to feel they should be using these parts
of the dashboard, the onus is likely to fall on the classroom teacher to
begin to record information during lessons to fill up the charts. Workload
may increase, and autonomy reduced.
Schools can, of course, move to other MIS providers who are chomping at
the bit to take some of SIMS market share but most are reluctant to
move away from products they know well. This stickiness has meant
competitors have struggled to break into the market with brand new
solutions.
Tony Draper, president of the National Association of Head Teachers, says
that such data systems could reduce the complexity of behaviour to boxticking or a game.
The minutiae is just not there. Good behaviour is not about ticking a box.
Its about the values and procedures in place inside that classroom. With
parents its about human interaction, talking to them, to find out whats
going on in the life of that child. To him, it is not behaviour that is the
cause of teacher exhaustion, but an over-emphasis on standards
Tom Edwards, a sixth-form college teacher from London, said that while Capita
SIMS helps him to find certain kinds of information quickly such as whether a
student is in school the time needed to enter weekly test scores, termly grades
and lateness is eating into the more pressing task of lesson preparation.
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In the future Im going to force it on them, so when they bring it up its all in
front of their eyes. If school leaders are encouraged to feel they should be using
these parts of the dashboard, the onus is likely to fall on the classroom teacher to
begin to record information during lessons to fill up the charts.
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The new SIMS app therefore focuses on microdata: what time a pupil arrives
to a lesson, how well they behave in each class, and the quality of their
classroom effort all entered in real time during the lesson by teachers with
tablets who tap behaviour or praise points beside a childs name.