1. North America ISU FY07

2. Audience Ever meet with a School Board?
Ever watch a School Board or Council Meeting?
Which is why I am happy to be speaking to you today.

3. Landscape for School Systems
Political
Splintered
Funding – Not Sustained
Leadership Changes
Information Technology

4. Political What’s behind the question? Federal/State/Local Legislation
Lobbyist
Competitors
Favors
Prejudices

5. Splintered Collective Bargaining Units School Operations
Instructional Technology
Information Technology
School Board

6. Funding Project based Politically Driven Not sustained
Grants
E-Rate
QZAB
IT is generally under funded

7. Leadership Changes Superintendent 2-3 years Long-Term Employment
Long term relationships
Lasting longer than leadership
Powerbase?????

8. Information Technology
Survey the infrastructure
Central vs. Decentralized
Standards
Age
Software/Hardware Inventory
Support
Number 1 problem excluding resources and budget
Information Technology Plans

9. Rules Based On Landscape
Plan and budget for long term and TCO
Provide short term deliverables
Always involve schools, Instructional Technology, and bargaining units
Maintain your relationships
Find out what’s behind the question
Leverage existing technology

10. Miami–Dade County Public Schools Our story
Over 4 years
All new products must be web-accessible
No thick clients
Centralized
Build new products from the warehouse with web applications, friendly reporting services
Changes controlled centrally and automated
Belief that 1:1 computing and internet access would be available for all students within 5 years

11. Foundation Projects - Software
District
Districtwide Curriculum Software
Active Directory Migration
Exchange Migration
Patch Management and Virus Protection
Districtwide Gradebook
Data Warehouse
OLAP
Password Synchronization
Auto Update Active Directory Accounts
Centralized Database and Network
Self Service for Technology Support
Leveraged Existing Microsoft Licensing

12. Foundation Projects - Hardware
Dark Fiber – Native Mode Lan Interconnection (NMLI)
Caching Servers
Local Domain Controllers
1 Gig Backbone
Storage Area Network
Virtual Server Environment

13. Foundation Projects - Support
District Administration
School Board
Principals
Teachers
Need
Community
Business Partners

14. Foundation Projects - Training
Leveraged existing skill sets using .net, SQL and reporting services
Mentoring Model using in-house and product experts

15. Riverdeep Teaching Resources Plato Forms Data Warehouse
Weekly Briefings
Documents
Gradebook
Destiny

16. Teachers have one-stop access to
& Calendars
Class Rosters
Student Information
Student Test Data
Teacher Planning Tools
Riverdeep
Learning
Village
Document Store

17. Portal “Lite” Proof of Concept with Microsoft
Soft Rollout as of September 19th
108,550 student visits
8,548 parent visits
55,235 teacher visits
3,215 principal visits

18. Thanks to M-DCPS Microsoft Team
Bob Dudenhoefer
Paul Cotter
Sunit Carpenter
Bob Pfief
Dom …..

19. What Microsoft Did Right!
Accepted No
Understood our fiscal responsibilities
Worked within our timelines
Built relationships
Stayed in bounds with Instructional Technology, Information Technology and Procurement
Brought in partners
When you could not; you still helped
Introduced products based on need
Premier services
ADS migration support
Portal Lite Proof of Concept – Development Services

20. What Microsoft Did Right!
Helped us when we were really in trouble
Examined and improved third party code
Attended a board meeting
Worked within our deadlines; not yours
Included M-DCPS
Sunshine Connection Pilot

21. What Microsoft Did Right!
Generous
Over $1 million in services and product
Sponsor our events
Good pricing over the years
Dedication to K-12
Class Server
Sunshine Connection
Learning Essentials

22. Room for Improvement - Product
Parent/student identification solution
Redundancy and 24/7 service
Professional Development for users; needs to be weaved into product rollout

23. Room for Improvement – Services
Need more resources for the volume you serve
Better communications between technical areas and sales
Offer pricing alternatives for home use

24. Any Time, Where, One (Any TWO)
Students, Parents, Teachers, and Principals have access to information
Any Time, Where, One (Any TWO)

25. Demonstration

26. For a Full Portal Add single sign-on Role-based access
Collaboration Tools
Hardware/Software
Workflow Technology
Customization
$3.4 Million

27. What is a Portal?
A Portal is a secure gateway to access systems and services.
It brings together a collection of services and information.
It allows the user to receive a personalized content and experience.
It allows the user to customize their own content and interface according to their own needs.