North America ISU FY07

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North America ISU FY07
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Audience

• Ever meet with a School Board?
• Ever watch a School Board or Council Meeting?
• Which is why I am happy to be speaking to you
  today.

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Landscape for School Systems

• Political
• Splintered
• Funding Not Sustained
• Leadership Changes
• Information Technology

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Political

• Whats behind the question?
• Federal/State/Local Legislation
• Lobbyist
• Competitors
• Favors
• Prejudices

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Splintered

• Collective Bargaining Units
• School Operations
• Instructional Technology
• Information Technology
• School Board

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Funding

• Project based
• Politically Driven
• Not sustained
• Grants
• E-Rate
• QZAB
• IT is generally under funded

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Leadership Changes

• Superintendent 2-3 years
• Long-Term Employment
• Long term relationships
• Lasting longer than leadership
• Powerbase?????

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Information Technology

• Survey the infrastructure
• Central vs. Decentralized
• Standards
• Age
• Software/Hardware Inventory
• Support
• Number 1 problem excluding resources and budget
• Information Technology Plans

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Rules Based On Landscape

• Plan and budget for long term and TCO
• Provide short term deliverables
• Always involve schools, Instructional Technology,
  and bargaining units
• Maintain your relationships
• Find out whats behind the question
• Leverage existing technology

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MiamiDade County Public Schools Our story

• Over 4 years
• All new products must be web-accessible
• No thick clients
• Centralized
• Build new products from the warehouse with web
  applications, friendly reporting services
• Changes controlled centrally and automated
• Belief that 11 computing and internet access
  would be available for all students within 5
  years

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Foundation Projects - Software

• District Email
• Districtwide Curriculum Software
• Active Directory Migration
• Exchange Migration
• Patch Management and Virus Protection
• Districtwide Gradebook
• Data Warehouse
• OLAP
• Password Synchronization
• Auto Update Active Directory Accounts
• Centralized Database and Network
• Self Service for Technology Support
• Leveraged Existing Microsoft Licensing

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Foundation Projects - Hardware

• Dark Fiber Native Mode Lan Interconnection
  (NMLI)
• Caching Servers
• Local Domain Controllers
• 1 Gig Backbone
• Storage Area Network
• Virtual Server Environment

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Foundation Projects - Support

• District Administration
• School Board
• Principals
• Teachers
• Need
• Community
• Business Partners

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Foundation Projects - Training

• Leveraged existing skill sets using .net, SQL and
  reporting services
• Mentoring Model using in-house and product
  experts

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Teachers have one-stop access to
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Portal Lite

• Proof of Concept with Microsoft
• Soft Rollout as of September 19th
• 108,550 student visits
• 8,548 parent visits
• 55,235 teacher visits
• 3,215 principal visits

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Thanks to M-DCPS Microsoft Team

• Bob Dudenhoefer
• Paul Cotter
• Sunit Carpenter
• Bob Pfief
• Dom ..

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What Microsoft Did Right!

• Accepted No
• Understood our fiscal responsibilities
• Worked within our timelines
• Built relationships
• Stayed in bounds with Instructional Technology,
  Information Technology and Procurement
• Brought in partners
• When you could not you still helped
• Introduced products based on need
• Premier services
• ADS migration support
• Portal Lite Proof of Concept Development
  Services

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What Microsoft Did Right!

• Helped us when we were really in trouble
• Examined and improved third party code
• Attended a board meeting
• Worked within our deadlines not yours
• Included M-DCPS
• Sunshine Connection Pilot

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What Microsoft Did Right!

• Generous
• Over 1 million in services and product
• Sponsor our events
• Good pricing over the years
• Dedication to K-12
• Class Server
• Sunshine Connection
• Learning Essentials

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Room for Improvement - Product

• Parent/student identification solution
• Redundancy and 24/7 service
• Professional Development for users needs to be
  weaved into product rollout

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Room for Improvement Services

• Need more resources for the volume you serve
• Better communications between technical areas and
  sales
• Offer pricing alternatives for home use

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• Students, Parents, Teachers, and Principals have
  access to information
• Any Time, Where, One (Any TWO)

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Demonstration
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For a Full Portal

• Add single sign-on
• Role-based access
• Collaboration Tools
• Hardware/Software
• Workflow Technology
• Customization
• 3.4 Million

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What is a Portal?

• A Portal is a secure gateway to access systems
  and services.
• It brings together a collection of services and
  information.
• It allows the user to receive a personalized
  content and experience.
• It allows the user to customize their own content
  and interface according to their own needs.