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.
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.’
Shkolo joins Juniper Education to provide a comprehensive solution for managing modern education establishments and improving learning outcomes.
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.
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.
I’ve been reading an excellent but troubling series of articles in WhichMIS about referral fees, or “kickbacks” as they are sometimes known, being paid to the support teams who offer services to schools around ICT, management systems, finance and other systems.
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.
A partnership between SIMS and teamSOS to enable improved school incident management.
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).
A couple of weeks ago Bromcom announced the arrival of Chris Kirk and their new interim Chief Commercial Officer.
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