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BUMP! - So I totally forgot I posted this. We've been slowly plodding along with 3 separate MIS's which is a problem to say the least. Just wondering if there's been any developments anyone is aware of? Any new MIS's or added cluster functionality on any? I'm going to investigate Progresso, but not sure it will be a viable option for us.

We need to report for each school individually, but also break down data for classes/ each building/ the whole organisiation, all of which currently involve administartion on 3 seperate systems and manual data analysis from exported data.

We all come under one umbrella organiastion. Ideally we would have one DfE I think, but politically that isn't possible just at the minute. Esentially we have a KS3 building and KS4 building. But students from 3 seperate schools (3 dfe numbers) are based across the 2 buildings. So you end up with 2 students in the same class but technically registered to different schools/ rolls. It's not an ideal arrangement, but one we have to work with currently.

Is Progresso on the DfE suggested suppliers list do you know? Who is the provider for Progresso?

Thanks John, that sounds like it may be a useful feature. Swapping between instances easily would definetly be a help. Do you know how powerful Progresso is for exporting info as csv? Integris is seeming a little limited as to what you can export as csv, and as we are combining a lot of data to do analysis, exporting as much data as possible to csv when needed gives us the flexibilty to combine the data as we need it for analysis. I'm definetly going to check Progresso out at BETT, hadn't really considered them previously.

I know this is a bit of a long shot, but is anyone aware of any MIS that deals well with managing 3 seperate schools. We are now one organisation but have 3 seperate dfes still. Is anyone aware of any MIS systems that might handle this set up well. We currently have 3 seperate versions of Integris which is only used by admin staff (as letting more staff would become problematic due to the multiple logins for each DfE instance), obviously this means the potential of having the MIS is currently limited and also means collating information is tricky, and has to be exported from the MIS and done manually in excel. Any guidance or similar experiences would be appreciated. Thanks