COBIS' Conference for Bursars, Business Managers & HR Staff
We're looking forward to the COBIS Conference for Bursars, Business Managers and HR Staff this February. With keynote speeches covering some critical topics such as student wellbeing, recruitment and compliance, and financial sustainability - plus a series
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See you at Bett 2019!
It’s one of the biggest events of the year and we’re already looking forward to what Bett 2019 will bring. Returning to London ExCel, we will be on stand E180 from 23rd - 26th January.
Company News
Our Service Centre's Christmas Opening Hours
As we approach the end of term, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a lovely break over the festive period and a great start to the new year. Service Centre Opening Hours Please
Company News
Check out our new team members!
We'd like to share some exciting updates surrounding role changes within our team, as well as introducing you to the team members who've joined us over the last couple of months. Role Changes Chris Pomfret - Chris
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How to Launch the iParent App at your School
At the best of times rummaging around in your child’s rucksack in search of that school report or permission slip can feel like routing through the depths of Mary Poppins’ suitcase: a lengthy struggle to find
Product News
5 Ways SMS Messaging Can Transform Your School's Comms
Whether your school is large, small, or part of a group of schools, communicating with members of staff, parents and students presents a complex challenge; you must ensure you're reaching the right people at the right time
Product News
2018 at iSAMS: Last Year's Highlights
It’s that time of year again: the decorations are coming down, Santa Clause has been to town and we've welcomed in a brand new year. As we say goodbye to 2018 and start looking ahead to
Collaborations, new partners and new opportunities:
The Firefly Learning Roadshow returns for 2018
We're excited to share that Firefly's Learning Roadshow series has returned this year, and members of the iSAMS team will be attending some of these events taking place across the UK. Each event will consist of a
Partner News
Streamlining Communications by integrating iSAMS & 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
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Say "Hi" at GSA's Deputy Heads' & Senior Leaders' Conference
We'll be at the GSA Deputy Heads' & Senior Leaders' Conference from Tuesday 26th to Wednesday 27th February. With an agenda centred around empowering learning to help students achieve better outcomes, we're looking forward to hearing about
Community News
Accounting for the UK Exam Boards' Contingency Day
The UK exam boards recently released their key dates for the 2019/20 academic year, and highlighted the inclusion of a new feature: a contingency day on 26th June 2019.What is the contingency day?It has
Community News
5 Key Take-Aways from Bett Show 2019
We had a great time at the Bett Show 2019 at ExCel London; it was fantastic to catch-up with so many of our partner schools and it was really interesting to learn more about the wider challenges
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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