Data interoperability is one of the most pressing challenges for the K-12 education community today. The Schools Interoperability Framework Association® (SIFA) is a non-profit, member initiative with a common goal of providing a platform-independent, vendor-neutral specification to enable K-12 software applications to share data quickly, dynamically, and securely. The SIF® Specification makes it possible for applications within a school or district to share data without additional programming and without requiring each vendor to learn and support the intricacies of other vendors’ applications.

Benefits of a SIF-certified application are:

      Eliminate redundant data entry
      Eliminate manual data import/export routines
      Reduce data correction/validation tasks
      Increase the reliability of information exchange
      Increase decision-making effectiveness with improved data analysis
      Improve accuracy of information with timely receipt of mission critical data

Go.connect takes SIF a step further. SIF requires your school district to deploy one
or many Zone Integration Servers (ZIS). These ZIS’s require you to pay for specific hardware, software, and consultant time to deploy. For most school districts the technical and financial resources required for such a deployment are beyond their capabilities.

Go.connect has combined the benefits of SIF and SaaS to provide you a hosted-ZIS option. We will also provide the resources to integrate your SIF-certified applications ata cost much lower than hosting it in your district.

For a list of SIF-certified applications that work with Go.edustar through SIF, click below:

For a presentation about how SIF works and how Go.edu can help, click below.