The Differences Between SIS and LMS

All Independent Schools recognize the significance of a robust Student Information System (SIS) that educates and informs personnel, maintains the integrity of your data, and keeps all offices across the campus updated with real-time data. Choosing the most suitable Student Information System to accommodate your school's needs takes time coupled with extensive analysis. During this process it is important to [...]
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API Is The Doorway To The System

The API (Application Programming Interface) is the key to Web Services and making them accessible for users. A good API makes or breaks a web service. Senior Systems has been refining its administrative software for more than two decades and knows how important a well-constructed API is to the success of Web Services. Its products are based around an industry [...]
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Disaster Recovery Plan For Self-Hosted Schools

When major disasters strike, institutions find out that disaster recovery is not just about how they back up data — but how quickly their planning returns them to normal. As educational institutions become more dependent on their computer data, the cost of losing access to that information is measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars. The key to solving the [...]
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Two-Factor Authentication: A Security Essential

We've all heard about it on the news, online and in person—security breaches that result in hundreds or in some cases thousands of passwords being leaked to the wrong people. Adobe, Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter accounts get breached time and again. People are always faced with security breaches, and with more and more websites requesting users to login to access [...]
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PCI Compliance at Senior Systems – Part 2

We at Senior Systems encourage our customers to become informed and involved when it comes to data security. This article is Part 2 in a series about PCI Compliance, discussing what we’ve been doing recently here at Senior Systems to become certified as PCI Compliant, and what that means to your school. As mentioned in PCI Compliance at Senior Systems [...]
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PCI Compliance at Senior Systems – Part 1

Credit card and personal data security is a topic that’s constantly in the news these days, and you may have heard or read about PCI Data Security Standards or PCI Compliance for businesses that handle these sensitive types of information. Senior Systems takes data security very seriously, and this article provides some background to explain what exactly is meant by [...]
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