Pennsylvania Districts Make Joint Decision To Upgrade Financial, Personnel Processes
Four school districts in
Bedford County, PA have all decided to automate what were
mainly
manual financial and personnel management systems with the same
software.
The four districts — Bedford
Area, Chestnut
Ridge, Northern Bedford County and Tussey
Mountain school districts —
all had used the same legacy system and made the joint decision to
switch to
Tyler's Infinite Vision software from Tyler Technologies, in part
because it would allow them to share
resources.
The four Bedford County
school districts were counseled by schools and school districts in
nearby Blair
County that had created a consortium several years ago to review,
evaluate and
pick new technologies. Those three are the Greater
Altoona Career and
Technology Center (GACTC), Hollidaysburg
School District and the Claysburg-Kimmel
School District.
Tyler
Technologies' Infinite Visions, designed
specifically
for K-12 school districts, is an enterprise suite that can be used for
financial, purchasing, human resources, payroll, warehouse, fixed
assets and
state reporting modules. It offers centralized workflows, real-time
access to
consolidated data and reduced duplication of many activities.
District
representatives said one of the most important features they would be getting
with
Infinite Visions is the sophisticated federal and state reporting
processes,
something that has become more of an issue in recent years.
The four
Bedford County districts, GACTC and Claysburg-Kimmel district also made
the
decision to have the software delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS).
The
Blair County districts have a total of about 5,400 students in 13
schools. The Hollidaysburg and Claysburg-Kimmel districts have
a total
of about 4,200 students in seven schools while GACTC serves about 1,000
students from a number of counties.
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.