Harris School Solutions Wins San Bernardino ROP Contract

Online, September 30, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Harris School Solutions, national provider of K-12 and adult education software, has been awarded the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools Regional Occupational Program (ROP) contract. Harris will implement the AIM solution, replacing the county's current student information system.

"We are all very excited to have San Bernardino ROP as a new client," stated Harris General Manager Jerry Canada. "We realize that budgets are extremely constrained in the current economic environment. The AIM Software as a Service (SaaS) offering is an ideal way for the ROP to purchase an innovative new solution in this situation."

The San Bernardino County ROP serves 30,000 students in 16 school districts annually. In addition to cost effectiveness, data reliability and reporting were important factors in the county's selection of a new student relationship management (SRM) system.

"I have high hopes for AIM's impact in the area of data collection, analysis and decision making," said San Bernardino County Administrator Kit Alvarez. "I also have high expectations for data reliability."

The AIM-SRM will be delivered as a hosted SaaS solution, and features a centralized Oracle database. It provides county-wide or district-wide access to student and course information, as well as business intelligence (BI) and analytics.

"In this difficult budget environment, AIM's BI and reporting capabilities will help the ROP efficiently provide essential educational services, as well as maintain the detailed records necessary to ensure its fair share of funding. AIM will help San Bernardino do more with less--the goal of virtually all educational organizations today," said Canada.

Alvarez described her first impression of the AIM system as positive. She added, "I am also pleased to know that many other agencies, such as my own, are using this data system."

The Harris AIM-SRM is currently servicing over 60% of the regional occupational centers and programs average daily attendance in the state of California, and it hosts over one million unique ROCP and adult education student records annually.

The full line of Harris School Solutions software provides numerous options for student information, mass notification, school nutrition, school business, employee time and attendance, adult-vocational education, data backup/recovery and transportation management. View the Harris product line at: http://www.harris-schoolsolutions.com/solutions.