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Changes to the iSAMS Team
We would like to share news on some exciting role changes within our team, as well as introduce you to our recent new team members. Role Changes Arturs Kirsis – Arturs has been successfully working within the Technical
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Upcoming Training Courses
Looking to start the New Year with a bit of extra iSAMS knowledge? There’s still time to sign up for our Managing Pupil Data and Attendance Manager courses taking place next week at our head office
Company News
Season’s Greetings from the iSAMS Team
We would like to wish you a lovely festive break and a Happy New year! As many of you start to wind down and break up for this term, we would like to take the opportunity to
Read up on the most recent iSAMS enhancements:
iSAMS Launches All-Improved MIS User Interface
There comes a moment when every systems’ user interface needs a redesign. That time has come for iSAMS. We’re excited to announce the first phased launch of the all-improved user interface (UI), coming in September 2018,
Product News
iSAMS Launch Solution to Support Pastoral Care in Schools
iSAMS, the leading MIS supplier to Independent Schools in the UK, today announced the launch of a new module to support all members of a school community to provide proactive, preventative pastoral care. Many schools are taking
Product News
Finance Solution for Schools - Integrated MIS and Accounting Solution
iSAMS announced today the launch of the company’s new Finance Solution – iFinance. The iFinance solution brings together the academic, pastoral, administrative and fee billing elements complete with an accounting system to help schools eliminate unnecessary duplication
Collaborations, new partners and new opportunities:
Hangzhou International School Streamlines Communications by Integrating iSAMS and Finalsite
The integration between Finalsite and iSAMS allows for schools to provide a seamless data flow between the two platforms, saving time and ensuring accuracy. Information automatically flows from the iSAMS database into Finalsite to provide a better
Partner News
Phase 1 of OpenApply - iSAMS Integration is Released
We're excited to announce that Phase 1 of the OpenApply - iSAMS integration is complete, with seamless, one-way data flow for students and parents from OpenApply to iSAMS. For Students: Students are created instantly in iSAMS once
Partner News
iSAMS Helps Schools Improve Staff Performance Online with Review365
Review365 is an app built by Hable, to help our Office365 schools move the staff appraisal process online. It will help schools that offer world-class education improve staff performance and collect valuable data, whilst reducing the admin
iSAMS Community is all about sharing experiences:
Start of New School Year MIS Checklist for School Administrators
The start of the new academic year is fast approaching, and many school administrators will be looking to update their MIS systems and processes to support the start of the new school year. We’ve put together
Community News
We’ve Opened our Australian Service Centre
I am delighted to be able to share an exciting announcement from our Service Centre - we have now opened an office in Sydney, Australia. The opening of our Australian office means that the iSAMS Support, an
Community News
Interactive Schools Launches the Amazon Alexa Skills App
As Voice OS dominates the news, iSAMS Enterprise Partner, Interactive Schools has developed the world’s first Alexa Skills App integrated with your live iSAMS Calendar. Parents will be able to ask Alexa when the next school
Keep up to date with our growing team of Developers:
Integrating systems with NServiceBus
Here at iSAMS we sometimes need to integrate with software from third parties. Recently we have been working on an integration that involves synchronizing data between iSAMS and a cloud based application. It soon became apparent that
Developer News
Remote working 101
The following is a guest article taken from the personal blog of our Technical Director, Greg Pakes. The original article can be found here. I am relatively new to remote working (20 months at the time of
Developer News
Introduction to Developer News
We are very excited to launch the developer section of the iSAMS Blog. This post will outline what we are hoping to achieve with this blog and what types of content we will be writing about. The
We’re redesigning our websites and product interface:
Step 5 — Trial applications
Over the next 6 months, I’ll be working on a group of trial applications to test the viability of our new visual identity. My aim is to select a small group of brand applications from each
Rebranding News
Step 4 — Designing a new identity
With the research and strategy stages complete, the following attributes have been highlighted as the personality of iSAMS: Flexible Web-based Forward thinking Progressive Experienced Dynamic Customer focused International The challenge now is to assign these attributes to
Rebranding News
Step 3 — The iSAMS brand brief
A brand brief is the process of documenting the fundamental precepts of an organisation. Many entrepreneurial companies have senior management teams who move around the business with this information in their heads. Extracting the knowledge is a
Meet the regular iSAMS Authors
Our specialists share their insights on software, systems and sector.
Alastair Price
Managing Director
Greg Pakes
Technical Director
Lisa Evans
Head of Marketing
Felice Plava
Partner Manager
Matt Loveridge
Design Manager
Carey Dodd
Marketing Manager