openZIS

Ben, Can you send me your contact information so we can discuss this in more details. You can use our comment page located at ZIT - Zone Integration Terminal Christopher

Ian - We have had many people contact us in regards to OpenZIS UK - but I don't know of any production sites currently in the UK. - OpenZIS

Ben I may have something that you can use - let me contact a developer out in California that i know that created a simple agent in VB i beleive. My feeling is that he was moving data from an HR application. Q: Powerschool has a SIF agent - are they charging you for it and if so what is the cost of the agent. I am working with the Department of Education in Mass and they have a few schools that use PowerSchool. By the way the Persons SIF Agent works great with OpenZIS. OpenZIS

Agents are not that difficult to construct. Many of the districts/companies using OpenZIS have created there own Agents. Your first task would be to determine your specification level. In the UK you have 1.0, 1.1 and soon 1.2. Prior to just picking one of these these three i would inventory your application that reside outside of your SIS. Find out if they are moving towards SIF and which version. If they say 1.2 - chances are good that they have not started to do any real development. If you find that your vertical application are not SIF capable - you could look for competing SIS projects that are. SIS application are moving the US market and dictate the SPEC levels since they are the source of most of the data. C

Real interoperability is not based on your agents ability to do PULL or PUSH capability. What PUSH can do for you is that it limits the polling of a ZIS for messages. Your Interoperability is not effected.