Dallas, March 2, 2007 -- Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) has been awarded Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Certification for the latest release of the Tyler Education Management Solution (TEMS), an advanced Student Information System for the K-12 school market. This certification acknowledges Tyler's continued dedication to helping schools get the most out of their software investment and follows the certification of Tyler's MUNIS® Enterprise Resource Planning system last year.
The SIF Certification Program is an initiative of the Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA), a collaborative association comprised of school districts, states, the U.S. Department of Education, and other preK-12 organizations. SIFA promotes standards that allow school districts to easily share information from multiple software systems. In short, SIF translates data between different systems so that changes to information in one are reflected in all others.
"Our goal is to enhance the teaching and learning environment," said SIFA Project Strategist, Laurie Collins. "Many schools, districts and states have cited that they not only see a monetary benefit from implementing SIF, but they also gain efficiencies and data quality that is more valuable and harder to quantify."
Currently used in 48 states and four countries, this interoperability has led to measurable cost savings by reducing staff time spent on data entry and re-entry. It also eliminates the need for cumbersome software customizations that can cost school districts thousands of dollars.
Similar to email applications, SIF makes information available to a number of access points, and encodes data in a way that is vendor neutral and platform independent. Tying all of this information together is a relatively simple process. Integration software utility tools act as a liaison between applications and the school district's central server. However, software companies must align their applications with SIF standards to facilitate the interoperability. That's exactly what Tyler Technologies has done.
"SIF Certified vendors have gone through rigorous levels of testing," said Collins. "Schools, districts and states gain assurance that in selecting SIF Certified vendors they have a greater chance of succeeding in gaining the interoperability they desire."
SIF standards also play a critical role in the education reform principles of No Child Left Behind. The standards help improve accountability and reporting by providing a means to consolidate information effectively. In doing so, some districts have seen increases in government funding that can be directly attributed to use of SIF Certified applications.
"School districts and states are being held to a higher degree of accountability for the education of our youth," said Collins. "By using data interoperability standards they can assure the data that they are using to produce the accountability reports are accurate, timely and convey the true status of education."
As the desire for data interoperability continues to grow in education, SIF Certified solutions are becoming more widely sought after.
"School districts often have limited dollars to spend on technology and staffing," said Tyler Technologies President and CEO, John Marr, Jr. "Using SIF Certified solutions like TEMS and MUNIS® allows them put the time and money they save into improving other areas of education."
Based in Dallas, Tyler Technologies is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments. Tyler partners with clients to make local government more accessible to the public, more responsive to needs of citizens, and more efficient. Tyler's client base includes more than 6,000 local government offices throughout all 50 states, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. Forbes Magazine named Tyler one of the "200 Best Small Companies" in America in 2004. More information about Tyler Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.
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