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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by mgkimsal on Sunday January 20, 2013 @04:38PM (#5088363)
Doubleplus agree. Have been working with a state department on a student registration system for the past few years, and now everything's going to be placed under one of the 'big commercial' players in this space. No interop specs have been delivered/offered, and the integration team seems wholly unaware of the complexities of the requirements laid out by the state for the types of processes we have to comply with. And talk about 'not adapting'? We have processes in our system relating to HR and the commercial team flat out said "we don't want to deal with that", but also balked at offering us any sort of integration service points (REST/SOAP/anything) to keep doing what we need to do next year.
Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by jasonpbecker on Sunday January 20, 2013 @05:19PM (#5088491)
I've never met a software vendor in this space that has a freaking clue what they're getting into when they sign these contracts. They never think about interoperability despite signing on to the requirements, they assume too much when it comes to their customers defining requirements, and hate offering up the goods to work with other systems you have in place (but can usually be twisted to offer bare minimum integration).
Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by saurik on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:10AM (#5089971)
Would you be willing to touch on what the reasons were behind your department deciding to switch to a "big commercial" player?
Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by mgkimsal on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:50PM (#5092638)
I've honestly no clue - from my perspective it was a statewide edict passed down last fall - there's probably more to it but I've not been filled in.