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Application Development : Garfield Park Academy

	Custom Database Gives Private School Firm Foundation for Growth "With just a few clicks, the staff has access to all of the information they need - and it's up to date! Data is entered only once and the various layouts are populated." Michele Heinz, Business Manager, Garfield Park Academy Willingboro, NJ

Background The Challenge The Solution The Return

The Solution The ability to maintain and update a finished system themselves prompted Garfield to stay with the FileMaker platform. IT Solutions was chosen as the vendor to build the replacement solution. With 13 years of FileMaker experience, and project expertise with a number of other private schools and educational entities, ITS emerged as the best option for building the system to meet Garfield's specific requirements. The project began with careful analysis of Garfield's existing solutions as well as desired functionality for the replacement system. Following acceptance of IT Solutions' initial recommendations, the project got under way with an extensive and focused series of development iterations. The approach, based on the Agile project management methodology, involved approximately a week's worth of features programming, followed by testing, review and bug fixes. Once a particular set of features was accepted by Garfield, ITS began to build the next set of features. The frequent reviews and open communication allowed for a fluid project process from start to finish, and changes to the features were easy to incorporate "on the fly" as opposed to waiting until the end of development to address. The completed system stores and tracks all pertinent data on students, including test scores, classroom and district details, related contacts, and health information. Administrative data tracked include daily attendance reporting, Board of Education, bus company, and staff details, as well as a complete purchase order module for use by teachers and administrators. Additionally, the health section of the system gives the school nurses a single source to track student medications, including dosage schedules, as well as student and staff visits to the nurses' office. "Meeting with the ITS team frequently over the course of the database design allowed us to have a truly custom application," Heinz noted. "Our feedback was used in the development of each piece. The open communication also kept our project on time and on budget - 2 very important factors for our school." > The Return

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