SmithJ

Hi all, newbie alert!!! My son/daughter's school (no names) use SIMS and both SISRA and 4Matrix. SIMS is both a data input tool and is called an 'MIS'. I don't understand why the data needs to be also processed elsewhere. Can anyone explain? It seems like schools are buying more than one product - in some cases more than two - to do a single job. Sorry if this is a dumb question!!!