No Child Left Behind, state reporting, board reports, test reports are all part of the growing accountability trend that K-12 education is facing. All over the country, educators are being forced to collect data and assemble it into informative reports for education stakeholders.

To help meet this demand, a variety of vendors have developed education data warehouse solutions that allow districts to integrate data from various operational systems into a central reporting repository. The problem? These solutions cost a lot of money and the majority of the nation's school districts cannot afford a quality solution.

Vendors such as eScholar, IBM, Tetradata, Versafit Third Day Solutions, Cognos have all developed offerings specifically for K-12 education. But their solutions are built around proprietary software with perpetual licensing costs, substantial hardware requirements and an ongoing cycle of upgrades that districts become slave to by choosing these solutions based on proprietary software. Their solutions are built on software products created by companies whose business revolves around selling more licenses to school districts.

openIntel delivers the same base functionality that all of these products do and its software components are free! Not only free, but mature and robust and in use all over the world. These free software products also have an amazing support structure from companies who have built business models around supporting free software and providing advanced customization services for clients in need of those services.

Read our other pages and get an overview of our solution. It was designed by one of the original architects of education data warehouse solutions. Years after leaving coporate America, our architect generously agreed to our proposal to work with OS4ED to design a solution, openIntel, to be implemented in school districts for a fraction of the cost of commerial alternatives. We call it give back to a community that needs license free open solutions.