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Vendor NexSys demonstrates district data warehouse; board discusses trial and $15,000 annual price
Summary
Luke Weisman, co-founder and president of NexSys, demonstrated the company’s data-aggregation and conversational analytics platform to the Shippensburg Area School District Committee of the Whole, showing examples using the district’s ProSoft exports plus Skyward, iReady and public Pennsylvania data.
Luke Weisman, co-founder and president of NexSys, demonstrated the company’s data warehouse and conversational analytics platform to the Shippensburg Area School District Committee of the Whole on a presentation introduced by district staff. The company showed live examples drawing on Skyward, iReady and ProSoft data and publicly available Pennsylvania Department of Education figures.
NexSys’ pitch centered on reducing the time staff spend assembling data. “Nexus is very Socratic,” Weisman said, describing how the system asks follow-up questions to refine queries. He showed a demo that identified “about 213 struggling students” by combining multiple systems and generating a downloadable CSV and an automatically built dashboard.
The presentation emphasized both instructional and financial uses. Weisman used district ProSoft data pulled with help from district staff, and demonstrated a budget trend chart that the system computed “in about 30…
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