3/28/2018
In November we announced a new module, “Enterprise Data Access” (EDA), intended to give SchoolInsight customers better access to data stored in our cloud. Recently we’ve seen an increase in requests for data extracts and integrations with other systems, and wanted to better serve those needs. We discuss our goals nicely in the original news article:
Announcement: Enterprise Data Access (11/24/17)
We released a beta version of EDA, and it is available today. New features include:
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For some time, we have supported automatic exports with an internal utility managed by our Technical Services Organization. In the near future, we will be migrating all existing automatic exports into EDA. This will allow customer self-service access to view and interact with exports. There will be no need to call TSO about your exports, unless you have questions or need help -- which we’re always happy to provide. We’ll send an email notification when your migration is complete.
Why did we mark EDA as beta? Since the code is new and we’re planning on making considerable future investments, we thought beta made sense. It’s also currently free for customers. Once it’s generally released, we’ll charge a separate subscription fee (similar in size to lunch, discipline, health records, etc). To communicate better with customers already doing automated exports, we added EDA to your 2018-19 order form at no charge.
As we look to the future, the next EDA project will build a framework for exporting any data from our system (rather than just the entities we support today). Once it’s in place, we can work through adding entities to the new export mechanism. Look for this functionality to start rolling out in the coming months.
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