ECNO has partnered with the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Ontario Association of School Business Officials to support a project to develop a data reference architecture for both and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Student Information System (SIS).
Student Information System (SIS)
In June 2018, the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM) initiated a procurement project seeking a Student Information System (SIS) to support District School Boards (DSB) in Ontario. The RFP was awarded to Fujitsu Consulting (Canada) Inc., for their Aspen software in January 2019 for a period of 10 years.
School Boards may choose to engage with Fujitsu through the OECM Master Agreement, or they may seek an alternate solution. In 2019, Community Services CIO Soussan Tabari introduced the concept of developing a Reference Architecture (RA) for a Student Information System in Ontario to provide standardised functions and processes, information architecture and application interfaces to support the needs of both school boards and the Ministry of Education.
ECNO (Education Collaborative Network of Ontario) working in conjunction with the Ontario Ministry of Education and Ontario Association of School Business Officials (OASBO) representatives will undertake the development of the SIS Reference Architecture (SIS-RA). This reference architecture will provide guidance on the implementation of standardised processes and application interfaces, as well as defining the data elements captured. Additionally, this standardised reference architecture will be a reference that can lead the expectations of a horizontal, sector-wide approach versus local, disparate undertakings.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
In Fall 2019, the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM) agreed to perform a procurement project seeking an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to support District School Boards (DSB) in Ontario. Earlier in 2019, Community Services CIO Soussan Tabari introduced the concept of developing a Reference Architecture (RA) for a Student Information System (SIS) in Ontario.
Following a similar structure, the CIO suggested an additional framework to support the development of the procurement process for an ERP system to provide standardised functions and processes, information architecture and application interfaces to support the needs of both school boards and the Ministry of Education.
ECNO (Education Collaborative Network of Ontario) working in conjunction with the Ontario Ministry of Education and Ontario Association of School Business Officials (OASBO) representatives will undertake the development of the ERP Reference Architecture (ERP-RA). This reference architecture will provide guidance on the implementation of standardised processes and application interfaces, as well as defining the data elements captured. Additionally, this standardised reference architecture will be a reference that can lead the expectations of a horizontal, sector-wide approach versus local, disparate undertakings.