SIMS partners introduction

For any enquiries about SIMS Partners, please contact our Partner Manager David Grashoff on 077175 77175 or email david.grashoff@capita.co.uk.

Truancy Call

Truancy Call provides systems to over 1000 schools to allow them to implement first day contact with parents of absentees and general messaging to parents via phone, text message and email. Their system fully integrates with SIMS.

Their systems do not require any additional hardware or new telephone lines - just a PC with Internet access. (read more about Truancy Call)

TASC Software Solutions Ltd

Is an established software company working primarily in the public sector.

PARS is one of the most comprehensive and user friendly school software packages available, providing a flexible and cost effective solution for schools wishing to carry out both Statutory Registrations and Lesson Monitoring by electronic means. (read more about Tasc software)

EasyTrace

EasyTrace provide software & hardware solutions for Cashless Catering, Access Control and Electronic registration through proximity cards, magnetic stripe cards and biometric fingerprints. Cards can be used to provide Locker control, photocopier control, print control and interface with most existing library systems through an automated software link.

Easytrace are an established company at the forefront of innovative technologies for education. Our link with Sims allows student data & images to flow into our software seamlessly, and parents can load money on to their child's account from the safety & security of their own home. Alternatively, students can load money through an account loader at the school. (read more about EasyTrace)

webALUMNUS

webALUMNUS is like a private, supportive "Friends Reunited" for a school. webALUMNUS re-establishes contact with former pupils, keeps the former pupil database up-to-date, helps manage fundraising, events and communications effectively, saves time and money, and provides a powerful additional resource for the school's careers department. All within a single service integrated with SIMS!

No additional hardware required; a PC with internet access is all that is needed. (read more about webALUMNUS)

VeriCool

VeriCool for Schools is a suite of software that uses fingertip verification to identify a student and enables them to register in class or purchase in the school canteen. VeriCool has been developed over the last 24 months and has successfully been installed in a number of Primary and Secondary Schools to provide a logical, cost-effective and accurate registration solution for schools wishing to move away from the paper register or OMR or replace their card-based cashless catering solution. A fundamental reason for the success of VeriCool, aside from all the major benefits listed in our sales literature or on our website, is the enjoyment that students get from using it. A process as simple as registering in class turns into an exciting experience. No longer having to call out their name to acknowledge their attendance, students place their finger on the fingertip scanner, listen for the confirmation chime and register themselves. (read more about VeriCool)

Micro Librarian Systems Ltd (MLS)

The UK’s leading provider of library management systems to education, and Capita SIMS, the market leader in Management Information Systems to the Education and Children’s Services Sector, have announced a landmark partnership ensuring full integration of all MLS systems with SIMS.net and exposure of library data and resources in the learning gateway.

Schools will benefit from the simplified management and reduced workload of integrating ‘real-time’ Capita SIMS.net pupil data directly into the library management system.

MLS have recognised the importance of developing integration with the learning gateway and since doing so have created a huge amount of success integrating and extending their web based library management system, Eclipse.net. This development has enabled MLS to expand their product portfolio whilst also driving competencies in new technologies including silverlight. The benefits realised by this type of innovation are felt directly by the parents, teachers and students through an interactive and information rich tapestry of web parts all focused on enhancing literacy in our schools and homes.

The partnership will greatly enhance the benefits of choosing MLS systems in the 22,000 schools already using the Capita SIMS suite of products. Over 10,000 schools already use MLS systems to transform reading and literacy and will now benefit from the most integrated library management and MIS systems available.

Andrew O’Brien, Managing Director of MLS commented: “MLS have had a long working relationship with Capita and this new partnership more closely unites two leading education partners who are both passionate and committed to supporting teaching and learning, and way people learn. We are excited about the opportunities that this partnership presents to ensure that the library/resource centre is placed at the centre of the learning experience in schools and colleges. Working in partnership with Capita we are already seeing that latest technologies used to deliver a more personalised, integrated and engaging learning experience.

David Grashoff from Capita commented “we are delighted to have identified a partner that shares our passion and synergy for education and can offer a fully integrated solution for SIMS Learning Gateway”

HCSS Education Ltd

Currently work with over 50 Local Authorities and are the market leaders for providing multi-year budgeting software to schools. In February, 2008 a ‘link’ module will be released enabling users of FMS6 to import data from HCSS’s FPS.Net and FPSadvance.Net software into FMS SQL Server thereby significantly reducing the level of data entry.

HCSS’s FPS.Net and FPSadvance.Net software can be tailored to meet your Local Authority’s LMS delegated scheme, the effect of allocating budgets in 2008/09 can be easily seen in future years. Reports for Governors can be presented either as bar chart/pie charts together with the budgets entered into the software.

A key benefit of HCSS’s FPSadvance.Net software is the ability to link the School Development Plan (SDP) to the budgeting process. Users of FPSadvance.Net have access to a SDP template which enables them to produce a fully costed SDP. Associated costs are automatically fed through to the 5 year financial planning module thereby satisfying DCSF and OFSTED requirements.

Training and software support packages are available.

If you would like more information on HCSS’s FPSadvance.Net and FPS.Net software click here or email Ian Romeo-Smith on ian.romeo-smith@capita.co.uk

TOSHIBA

Toshiba’s suite of connectors allow for the seamless integration of hard copy documents into the SIMS .net system.

Using the touch sensitive screen located next to a digital copier, documents can be scanned directly into the relevant Focus Group and Sub-Area within SIMS. By using 'one time" authentication at the start of this process with a SIMS username and password, user rights are also replicated.

Once the document is residing within SIMS it can be easily retrieved at the desktop for viewing, amendment, distribution or printing.

Using eCopy Desktop software (10 seats included) files can be opened and saved directly from within SIMS. Users can annotate documents, OCR them directly into an editable format or create PDF files from multiple applications for distribution or storage back into SIMS.

The sophisticated scanning capabilities of this system are delivered with high level security features and audit trails.

In addition to the integration into SIMS, this system includes native integration into your email application for secure document transmission, native connection into your Microsoft Sharepoint application and the ability to create custom buttons for scanning to file and or integration into other key processes."