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Welsh win for Bromcom: Is Wales open for (MIS) business?
In a press release today, Bromcom announced that they have been chosen to provide the management information system (MIS) and Finance software for Wrexham County Borough Council’s 71 schools.
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In a press release today, Bromcom announced that they have been chosen to provide the management information system (MIS) and Finance software for Wrexham County Borough Council’s 71 schools.
With a large number of schools and MATS considering the churn in the MIS sector, we’re finishing our series of articles based on popular requirements that some might consider are on the periphery of core functionality.
Today we look at Homework functionality.
Earlier this month, Bromcom announced that they were offering a £1,000 prize to anyone solving the issue of how schools migrating away from the ESS SIMS MIS to another provider could ensure that they can migrate all the school data easily and comprehensively.
Continuing our series of articles based on popular requirements that some might consider are on the periphery of core functionality.
Today we’re looking at HR provision.
Alliance between IRIS and PAGS set to streamline SEND management in schools and offer more comprehensive support to neurodiverse learners.
Research commissioned by Bromcom indicates mental health issues, term-time holidays and a lack of impactful Government guidance have caused a rise in school absences
With the UK General Election less than two weeks away, and the 2024 Labour manifesto promising to create 3,000 new school-based nurseries, we started to wonder whether the UK’s existing school MIS platforms are suitable.
Looking at the four nursery management systems on display at this recent event in Birmingham.
WhichMIS? was pleased to be invited to attend the annual Bromcom event, held at the Shard in London on 12th June.
We have been really pleased to see the growth in visitors to the site.
The data from the Spring 2024 census has now been published and we can see the latest MIS movements across English state schools.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with SCOMIS to promote their new dashboard that provides access to very handy Power BI charts and tables, making it easy to view and interrogate the latest UK MIS market information.
Parental engagement tools in UK schools are designed to foster better communication and collaboration between parents and educators, enhancing the overall educational experience and outcomes for students.
When UK schools contemplate transitioning to or replacing an online Management Information System (MIS), they should be vigilant about several critical data security concerns.
It has been announced today that TimeTabler has joined the MIS Division at The Key Group. The Key Group is home to a number of leading, school-focused software brands including Arbor, The Key, and GovernorHub.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is delving into potential misconduct by Education Software Solutions Ltd (ESS), amid suspicions that the company may have abused its dominant position.
What do the various MIS providers offer to help schools with timetabling – we asked and they answered.
Last week we posted an article on finance systems within an MIS. In this post we look at reporting and analytics functionality, and specifically about the use of AI.
In this post we focus on the attendance functionality within your MIS and how this helps you to comply with the reporting requirements.
We asked the MIS providers to tell us what they provide for school finance and here are the responses we have received.
We asked the MIS providers how they handle data migration in light of recent announcements relating to the inappropriate use of backup files.
IRIS Software Group have become the first MIS provider to announce that they have released a full Welsh language version of their MIS product..
The spring term has been hectic for us at WhichMIS? and we thought as we rapidly approach the end of term it might be a good idea to offer a refresh on what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks.
3 months in to his new role as Chief Commercial Officer at Bromcom, we asked Chris to outline the Company’s priorities as he sees it, to what extent their latest contract win will put strain on their current customers, what they are doing to ensure they retain existing business.
Phil Roberts took on overall commercial responsibility for ParentPay Group, which owns ESS SIMS, back in April 2023. We asked Phil about the journey the Group has been on as a whole since he joined the business, the progress being made with SIMS Next Gen and the key challenges they face as an organisation. Watch the video >>
Show My Homework has been used in secondary schools across the country for many years – so what prompted Satchel to move into the MIS market? How is Satchel:One different to the rest, and what advice would they give to schools intent on changing their provider?
Whilst ESS argue that there are easy and approved methods for migrating school data when changing from SIMS to another provider, schools, MATs, Support Teams and other MIS providers all argue that these methods are not the best way to handle the data migration and that the use of a SIMS backup file for this purpose has been ‘industry standard’ for many years.
We have posted two articles recently around concerns raised over ESS SIMS’ warning to schools and to other MIS providers around using the SIMS backup files for data migration purposes. In this post we let you hear what ESS SIMS have to say about this subject.
At the recent BETT 2024 event, we took the opportunity to interview some of the key personnel from the MIS providers that were exhibiting.
The first video interview is with Fergal Moane, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Bromcom.
Arbor have today published an open letter to all SIMS customers.
The letter argues that SIMS recently announced position that their customers can no longer use a database backup file to transfer data to a new MIS supplier is wrong, pointing out that using backup files for this purpose has been standard industry practice for at least the past 10 years.
Bromcom had already taken the lead in this battle and had fired the first shots offering a full indemnity to schools and by applying to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to halt what they describe as ‘this anti-competitive behaviour by ESS Ltd.’
In recent weeks we’ve been posting a fair amount about BETT which took place between 24th and 26th January at ExCel London.
This year over 40,000 visitors from more than 140 countries attended the event. The overall exhibition space seemed smaller than last year and was split over two halls.
Changing MIS can be a daunting task with many differing viewpoints, so if you are thinking of a change, there are several considerations you should make…
The Education Authority (EA) Northern Ireland comprehensive procurement process completed in December 2023 sees Bromcom play a key role in the overall solution delivery alongside a range of partners.
Satchel One are hosting a webinar on Wednesday 31st January at 12 noon, looking at the onboarding process to a cloud-based MIS.
Shkolo joins Juniper Education to provide a comprehensive solution for managing modern education establishments and improving learning outcomes.
We believe all schools should know if the MIS that is being recommended to them is paying the support team a referral fee.
With BETT 2024 fast approaching we asked MIS providers the following questions:
Over the past couple of months, we’ve published four articles on the topic of ethics in the MIS market. Now that there’s more churn than ever before, we think that all providers should ensure that no barriers are put in the way. However we’ve had sight of the latest missive from ESS to their SIMS Support Units which makes some worrying points.
On the 29th November we published part 3 of a series of blogs relating to MIS referral fees, or as some people have said ‘Kickbacks’
In a supporting LinkedIn post we asked for comments, and in this final blog on the subject we thought we’d share some of these comments.
The census data is in, and the new MIS market share stats are here!
Our thanks, once again, go out to our good friend Joshua Perry who analyses each set of census data and provides insights into the MIS market players, how many schools they have, the ‘winners and losers’ etc. in his blog which we urge you to read.
A partnership between SIMS and teamSOS to enable improved school incident management.
We asked MIS providers how much they pay external support teams for providing support to their schools and how much they pay in referral fees when a school purchases their platform after being referred by a partner.
We’ve been hearing misgivings around the delayed roll out of both the new SEEMiS Schools MIS as well as the SEEMiS Early Years Management System that have long been planned by SEEMiS (Scottish Electronic Education Management Information System).
Our colleagues at Strictly Education carried out a survey of MAT leaders in July 23.
Whilst this survey isn’t specifically related to the world of Management Information Systems it does address issues that affect all schools which is why we thought we’d share some of the key elements.
A couple of weeks ago Bromcom announced the arrival of Chris Kirk and their new interim Chief Commercial Officer.
The Judicial Review claim relating to the Department for Education’s proposed operating model for its new arm’s length body, Oak National Academy, has been granted permission to proceed by the High Court.
Are IT, Admin & Data professionals, and the specific nature of technology roles in schools and MATs, given enough weight in the wider discussion about staff wellbeing?
We think they certainly should be. Which is why we wanted to shine a light on the wellbeing of IT, Admin and data professionals in schools and MATs across the UK.
Procuring your MIS is just the start – managing and maintaining a School Management Information System (MIS) is a critical task for educational institutions. MIS systems play a pivotal role in managing student data, staff information, and various administrative processes and need to function efficiently at all times.
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The last of our series of MIS provider interviews at Bett is with Chris Kirk, Chief Commercial Officer @Bromcom, who talks about their new and existing customers >> https://buff.ly/49pLvx0 @chrisjameskirk #mis #bett2024
We had the pleasure of speaking with Phil Roberts, Chief Commercial Officer at @ParentPay and @SIMS_ESS at #bett2024. Watch the interview to hear his take on the #MIS market >> https://buff.ly/42QmCbs