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The District Pulse (Pulse) is a unique and highly
innovative software solution. It is specifically
designed to acquire and deliver integrated, high speed
and
 highly
optimized management information from a variety of
databases across a school district. In general, Pulse
supports the generation of comprehensive management
information with significantly less effort, with much
faster response times and at dramatically reduced costs
compared to any other solution available across the
marketplace.
These advanced capabilities are a result of the highly
innovative design employed in the development of Pulse.
It is designed to provide a significantly improved
method of delivering management information. This is an
entirely new approach that is not currently available
from traditional application software solutions or data
warehouses. The Pulse translates all of the data used
by a school district to usable and interactive
Information. Based on this, Pulse is marketed as an “information
warehouse”.
The flexibility of Pulse makes it a difficult product to
categorize. It is used by school districts
as a
data warehouse, as an advanced reporting system, as
a decision support system and as a
data-hub to combine,
enhance and distribute data from all of a school
district’s application systems to managers via browsers,
spreadsheets, email, word processing documents and other
desktop applications. The District Pulse is used to
create management information from the data currently
stored in various databases across a school district.
And, it is designed to perform this activity at a budget
and staff resource cost that will fit into the budget of
any school district.
Pulse was developed to address the largely unmet needs
of school district management for accurate, timely and
easy to use management information. As background, most
marketplace application programs do a good job at
providing process related data to end users, but largely
fail at providing the summaries, trends, historical
patterns, goal comparatives and detailed information
needed by managers. Data warehouses, at significant
expense and maintenance cost, combine data from multiple
systems, but they are simply a tool. The detailed
information needed by managers must still be gathered
via staff developed queries or programs. Pulse gathers
and transforms data into a management format consisting
of summary displays, historical trends, goal
comparatives and the detail data needed specifically for
management purposes. This resulting information is
delivered interactively to managers via Internet or
network connections with extremely fast response times.
The result, managers have the information they
need to properly manage.
In tradition al
data warehouse and application software implementations,
data is stored in a database in the form of various
files or tables. External queries or programs are then
written to access that data. Pulse takes a radically
different approach of data management. By storing the
business rules and logic to generate a query/report as a
fundamental part of the data, and, by storing the data
in the format that it is to be used by users, dramatic
improvements are possible. This concept dramatically
improves performance, greatly reduces the manpower
needed for setup and maintenance, supports far more
complex data usage and significantly reduces costs. The
productivity of all school district managers is
significantly enhanced as timely access to very detailed
data views is constantly available. In general, the
school district’s data is transformed from a database
format into that of an “information warehouse” to
immediately respond to management information requests.
Pulse
While Pulse consolidates data into a discrete database,
it is not a traditional data warehouse. Pulse is based
on a highly innovative design that consolidates data
into a specific form to facilitate how it to be later
used by end users. This optimized data design literally
incorporates executable logic and business rules into
the data itself. In addition, all data calculations to
support management access are performed at the time the
data is captured. This calculated information is then
integrated with the captured data. This approach,
simply stated, transforms data into usable management
information. Based on this, we Pulse is not a
traditional data warehouse, but a fully functional “information
warehouse”.
Pulse accomplishes this process via a series of
innovative and user managed business rules and data
storage techniques. The following diagram outlines the
steps performed to load, define and use data in the
Pulse environment.
In summary, Pulse employs innovation and radical new
design processes to generate a management system that is
far faster, that is far easier to manage, that uses
significantly less resources, which is more
comprehensive, and, is far less expensive than any other
data management tool available in the marketplace
today. Application databases and/or data-warehouses
used by school districts are literally transformed into
a highly functional “information” base to meet the
information needs of all managers and end-users.
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