Is an SIS an Educational System?

Is a Student Information System an Educational System? It has the word “student” in its name so it has to be “educational” or so I…

Would you Transplant the Heart of your SIS?

The Academic Record is the “heart” of a Student Information System. Registration and admissions feed data into the Academic Record only to be pumped back…

How Hard is it to Build a Student Information System from Scratch?

Turns out, pretty hard. A lot harder than I originally imagined it would be.  I figured it would take about three years when I first…