Ready Launch Tour 2005

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Lebanon SQL Launch 2005, Customer
Testimonial Value of SQL 2005 and VS 2005
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Introducing SABIS
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Introducing SABIS
SABISs commitment to providing students with a
high-quality education can be measured over the
118 years of development and refinement of its
curriculum, a curriculum supported by time-tested
methods and emphasizing a well-balanced body of
knowledge, skills, and experiences. Some features
of the SABIS Edge include

• Tools and methodologies to support effective
  student placement

• Well-structured curriculum

• SABIS books, in core subjects, designed to
  dovetail with precision with the curriculum

• Proven instructional methods

• Timely tracking of student performance through
  regular assessment

                           
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Introducing SABIS
Our Ultimate Goal

• Students
• Achieve
• Better
• In our
• Schools

"With SABIS, teaching comes first. The framework
for success is there training, books, and exams.
It's so liberating! I spend my time teaching and
watching my students learn."
SABIS Teacher
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Todays Business Environment For SABIS
The SABIS School Network

• AY 05-06

• Total Number of Schools 31

• Schools in the US Europe 11
• Schools in the Near East N. Africa 8
• Schools in the Gulf Pakistan 12

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Todays Business Environment For SABIS
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Todays Business Environment For SABIS
Expected Enrollment 28,000

• The SABIS School Network - AY 05-06

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Current Business Challenge
In SABIS we strongly believe that Information
Technology is the main Key to Success in Business

• A Wide set of computer based applications for
  school management and corporate use
• School Management
• Students Staff
• Academic
• Web Parents

• Corporate Use Applications Web sites
• Corporate Web site
• HR Recruitment Application
• Organizations Portal
• Home Schooling
• Many Others

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Current Business Challenge

• A variety of heterogeneous software products and
  platforms that do notintegrate properly.
• Oracle 8 RDBMS Back End to imbed Microsoft OLE
  objects.
• Oracle Developer 6i Forms Reports front end, .
• Visual Basic based applications Front Ends.
• Java Classes loaded in oracle and called by
  Oracle stored procedures.
• Web Front Ends Using asp pages and calling
  Oracle.
• We found that our existing databases are too
  expensive, too difficult to maintain, and are for
  other reasons nearing their end of life.

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Solution .NET Framework SQL Server 2005
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database system, was
the most viable solution for essentially all our
database problems and issues ."

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduced Better
  performance, reliability, availability,
  programmability, and ease-of-use.
• - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with its new
  features is an excellent database platform for
  large-scale online transactional processing
  (OLTP), data warehousing, and many other
  applications.

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Solution .NET Framework SQL Server 2005
Reporting Services, the new server-based
reporting platform that supports report
authoring, distribution, management, and end-user
access is a Great Tool! Said one of our school
directors. Reporting Services is now being used
in our new WebParent application.
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SABIS
An integrated suite of management development
tools that improve the ease-of-use,
manageability, operations support .NET
Framework SQL Server 2005 Exchange
Active Directory Reporting Services
Sharepoint

• A variety of heterogeneous products and
  platforms that
• Do not integrate .
• Expensive.
• Difficult to maintain

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with extended
performance, reliability, availability,
programmability, and ease-of-use
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Thank You