PEARSON & INFOSNAP COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP THE POWERSCHOOL API FOR DATA INTEGRATION
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Pearson & InfoSnap
Collaborate to
Develop the
PowerSchool API
for Data Integration
ISV PARTNER
InfoSnap is a Pearson ISV Partner and PowerSchool Alpha
Development Team Member. InfoSnap has 650+ K-12
customers and leads the market with 350+ PowerSchool
clients around the world.Pearson sought to create an API for its PowerSchool SIS. They
partnered with InfoSnap, a member of their ISV Partner
Program known for their experience and success with
complex data integration and delivery. The result of this
joint-venture is a sophisticated PowerSchool API, which has
given InfoSnap solutions an industry-leading integration for
PowerSchool.
Defining Industry Best Practices
InfoSnap has over fourteen years of experience in developing online registration management
integrations across more than 35 different K-12 systems. This experience has allowed InfoSnap
to design best practices for the creation and deployment of a powerful and complete integration
with the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS), using the PowerSchool Application
Programming Interface (API).
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InfoSnap best practices cover all aspects of the integration development process including
discovery, design and programming, testing, training, and ongoing service and support. The
result is an ideal method for Pearson and InfoSnap clients to obtain, consume, and react to
family, student, and staff information.
Collaboration Creates Quality
SISs have different capabilities and each requires a specific approach to
building a powerful, stable, secure, accurate, and scalable integration.
The Pearson Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Program and API
provides a collaborative, documented, and open access model, resulting
in a dialogue for partner feedback and the ability to capitalize on building
an optimal business process and experience for clients.
InfoSnap.com // 866-986-1601 // Inquiry@InfoSnap.comLou Trotter, President and CEO of InfoSnap, notes, “Many education
technology systems act as a closed box and attempt to be a single source for
the myriad of complex operations and services schools and districts must
provide. However, this opaque structure prevents access to solutions that best
meet the client’s needs. The partnership between InfoSnap and Pearson, and
the PowerSchool API provides schools and districts with access to best of
breed technologies for all of their operations.”
This collaborative approach shared by Pearson and InfoSnap included regular
focus group meetings and access to PowerSchool sandboxes and testing
environments. Throughout the API design process, InfoSnap’s team worked
closely with Pearson to institute user interface and user experience
approaches, set security standards, and establish the scope of functionality
necessary for both partner and client success. Additionally, a commitment to
continuous innovation and support by both InfoSnap and Pearson ensures
schools and families receive a service that meets their evolving needs.
Oliver Wreford, VP of Product and Marketing School Systems for Pearson,
notes that, “A critical job of the SIS is to create a collaborative environment
where schools and districts can securely integrate the solutions that are most
appropriate for their process, policies, and families. InfoSnap’s experience and
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expertise provides PowerSchool clients with access to sophisticated services
solely focused on the complex registration management process.”
What Makes the InfoSnap-PowerSchool Integration Unique?
InfoSnap maintains a dedicated team responsible for building, evolving, and supporting the
bi-directional on-demand data transfer with PowerSchool. Key factors that make the InfoSnap
PowerSchool integration unique include the following:
Expansive technology scope
Implementing as wide a scope as possible in order to meet individual
client needs. This includes dealing with much more than the typical
student-centric data exchange required by most third-party solutions.
There are often significant challenges such as relational links between
and among unique records, table and field structure, and complex
business rules that must be respected in order to further enhance and
extend PowerSchool’s value to the client. The better understanding a
development team has of these factors, the greater the ability to meet the
client’s distinctive business requirements.
InfoSnap.com // 866-986-1601 // Inquiry@InfoSnap.comRobust integration tools
Ensuring that integration tools not only automate data processing as
much as possible, but also provide convenient ways for users to
participate in the process as needed is critical. This can be accomplished
through a sophisticated user interface of dashboards and automated
alerts and communications, resulting in improved efficiencies and data
integrity.
High-level data security standards
Guaranteeing the highest level of data security standards for clients and
their families is imperative. InfoSnap’s integration with the PowerSchool
API is done via secure HTTPS connection, using multiple GUID-based
authentication credentials. Additionally, InfoSnap provides clients with a
high level of control over the scope and amount of data that is available
for exchange between PowerSchool, ensuring client policies are met.
Finally, with continuous enhancements such as Field-level Access
Control, the PowerSchool API makes it easy for InfoSnap clients to get
the greatest benefit from a direct integration, while maintaining utmost
security of their data.
Responsible automation of data delivery
Extending the capabilities of the PowerSchool API to include a
sophisticated Data Integration Framework (DataShuttle). DataShuttle™ is
a proprietary platform containing an exhaustive array of methods, tools,
workflows, user interfaces, and best practices that can be adapted and
evolved quickly to meet the needs of a PowerSchool client. The
combination of InfoSnap’s API integration for PowerSchool and the
DataShuttle model enables us to offer a powerful and user-friendly
integration to our 350+ PowerSchool clients.
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Improving education technology together.
InfoSnap.com // 866-986-1601 // Inquiry@InfoSnap.comISV PARTNER
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