LosOjos Posted January 25, 2010 Posted January 25, 2010 Has anybody heard of these or used/using their system? I got a call from them this morning offering to give us a demo of their system and a link via email (sent from the guys Yahoo! account, excuse being Win7 doesn't allow Outlook which I'm not really buying...), however the link is to an IP address (seems odd, don't they have a domain name?!) and Outlook is flagging it as a potential phishing email (probably because of the IP address). Anybody know anything about them?
vikpaw Posted January 25, 2010 Posted January 25, 2010 Not heard of them. Sounds phishy. I got a random email the other day from someone at iSams which does exist, but they shouldn't really have got my data which appears to have come from Capita.
LosOjos Posted January 25, 2010 Author Posted January 25, 2010 they shouldn't really have got my data which appears to have come from Capita. That's bang out of order! Have you tried contacting Capita to find out? I would not be happy about that. There are a couple of PDF's attached, think I'll copy them over to a dead machine to look at, just in case...
PhilNeal Posted January 25, 2010 Posted January 25, 2010 I can assure you that Capita is not in the habbit of letting our competitors have the email addresses of our customers! Not legal yet alone sensible!!
vikpaw Posted January 26, 2010 Posted January 26, 2010 That's bang out of order! Have you tried contacting Capita to find out? I would not be happy about that. There are a couple of PDF's attached, think I'll copy them over to a dead machine to look at, just in case... I can assure you that Capita is not in the habbit of letting our competitors have the email addresses of our customers! Not legal yet alone sensible!! Oh no. sorry, should have been clearer. The sender is ex-capita. I've been trying to email you phil, and julie too, to give you a heads up but they keep getting bounced back. Capita in no way would have given it out, but it needs following up.
vikpaw Posted January 26, 2010 Posted January 26, 2010 pm on it's way, but wanted to send you the original email phil. have you got another one i can use..?
LosOjos Posted January 26, 2010 Author Posted January 26, 2010 Just in case anybody else wondered about Datapoint Education, I'm meeting somebody from there on Monday to be shown the system they've come up with. I'll let you all know what I think...
vikpaw Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Not heard of them. Sounds phishy. I got a random email the other day from someone at iSams which does exist, but they shouldn't really have got my data which appears to have come from Capita. That's bang out of order! Have you tried contacting Capita to find out? I would not be happy about that. There are a couple of PDF's attached, think I'll copy them over to a dead machine to look at, just in case... I can assure you that Capita is not in the habbit of letting our competitors have the email addresses of our customers! Not legal yet alone sensible!! Just to clarify, the data didn't come from Capita, only the salesman, and with him my name! Everything else is on the 'Geek for all to see. There seem to be more and more MISes coming out of the woodwork lately.
data_mgr Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Just in case anybody else wondered about Datapoint Education, I'm meeting somebody from there on Monday to be shown the system they've come up with. I'll let you all know what I think... Hi Josh I have heard of them; was just online looking for some info on them otehr than the website - i.e. peoples experiences They came to see us before xmas and I have to say its a rather impressive bit of kit, almost too good to be true! what did you make of it all?
Tonyoung Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Has anybody heard of these or used/using their system? I got a call from them this morning offering to give us a demo of their system and a link via email (sent from the guys Yahoo! account, excuse being Win7 doesn't allow Outlook which I'm not really buying...), however the link is to an IP address (seems odd, don't they have a domain name?!) and Outlook is flagging it as a potential phishing email (probably because of the IP address). Anybody know anything about them? Josh I would be very intersted in seeing more information on this product or some contact details for the company Anton
LosOjos Posted February 2, 2010 Author Posted February 2, 2010 OK everybody, an update for you. Unfortunately, the meeting was canceled, and this appears to be due to me posting the original question here (it was copied & pasted in to the email I received from my contact to cancel the meeting) so I am non the wiser as to their system. It seems a shame that they felt the need to cancel (as I have told them) as I meant no slander against their company by posting here, but in a school environment handling vast amounts of student data, I would rather be safe than sorry, and saw EduGeek as the perfect place to post this kind of question. As a side note, my experience is proof if you ever needed it that companies do visit EduGeek and do take note of what we're saying, it's just a shame some of them take an innocent and (in my opinion) justified post personally and see this as reason not to do business.
Jonsi Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 Unfortunately, the meeting was canceled, and this appears to be due to me posting the original question here This seems a bit unfair considering their site is still under construction and there's very little information about them at present. You'd have thought a new start-up would want as much custom as possible. They came to see us before xmas and I have to say its a rather impressive bit of kit, almost too good to be true! Out of interest, can someone enlighten me on what product they offer?
LosOjos Posted February 2, 2010 Author Posted February 2, 2010 They said they offer a reporting interface for SIMS that allows teachers to get reports very easily to save Data Managers time from running them for them, and also allows you to run reports otherwise unavailable in SIMS. As I said however, I haven't seen the system working and am now quite wary about the company as there seems to be no detail about them anywhere, with the only person who has heard of them seemingly having signed up to EduGeek just to say so...
vikpaw Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 Hi Josh I have heard of them; was just online looking for some info on them otehr than the website - i.e. peoples experiences They came to see us before xmas and I have to say its a rather impressive bit of kit, almost too good to be true! what did you make of it all? spooky. a little digging shows that you appear to be legit despite the lack of details on your profile. can you tell us a little more about datapoint and maybe yourself please...?
LosOjos Posted February 2, 2010 Author Posted February 2, 2010 One other thing that puzzles me is that my contact has obviously read this thread as it was quoted in the email canceling our meeting, why didn't he sign up and make things clearer for us all rather than just canceling on me?
SYNACK Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 One other thing that puzzles me is that my contact has obviously read this thread as it was quoted in the email canceling our meeting, why didn't he sign up and make things clearer for us all rather than just canceling on me? Given how easily they spook you probably dodged a bullet, imagine tring to get support off them if an innocent question is enough for them to break off contact.
runardkipling Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 Hello All Does anyone know any more about this company, or have any experience with this company. we have been approched by this company. Many Thanks comments appreciated.
MattMitchell Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 I'm never convinced about anything that makes it "easy to produce reports without the data manager having to do it." How do they know what data's stored where? How is it structured? What does xyz aspect contain, never mind resultsets... It's a good sales pitch, but often a bit unrealistic.
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