SIF 3 Certification Turns Tradition on its Head!

WASHINGTON - March 12, 2015 - PRLog -- “I am delighted!” stated John Lovell, Senior Systems Developer for the SIF Association. “We built a standard that scales from straight forward interactions for applications all the way up to the enterprise. We targeted various data providers; encourage them to build a new human experience for the most personal of computing devices. Instead, we are leading with a sophisticated broker, enabling large integrations, in the cloud. This breaks all precedents; we have always started with the data providers. I guess our traditional market of system integrations for education is still our strongest!”

Of course the people that made this happen have no reason for surprise. “This makes perfect sense,” explains Mike Reynolds, President of CedarLabs. “People looking to leverage SIF 3 are starting from one of two places and a broker helps with both. If they already have a SIF 2.x integration, and are looking for a path into the future, we have the technology to help them with that migration and one big piece is our certified HostedZone service. On the other hand, if you are starting from scratch, planning on a broker being present to provide the advanced security and scalability features of the SIF 3 standard makes your job a whole lot simpler.”

While other competing initiatives to utilize education data have recently sprung up, none have the commitment to privacy that the SIF Association does. Larry Fruth Ph.D, Chief Executive Officer for the SIF Association commented, “It all starts with local control, then we both enable and restrict the flow of data. The result is that the right people have the right data at the right time, everyone gets only what is appropriate.  We are thrilled to be making this announcement.”

Further details on the SIF Certification Program can be found on the SIF Certification website: cert.sifassociation.org/SitePages/Home.aspx

About the SIF Association

The SIF Association is a unique, non-profit collaboration composed of over 3,200 schools, districts, local authorities, states, US and International Ministries of Education, software vendors and consultants who collectively define the rules and regulations for educational software data interoperability. The SIF Implementation Specification enables diverse applications to interact and share data efficiently, reliably, and securely regardless of the platform hosting those applications. The SIF Association has united these education technology end users and providers in an unprecedented effort to give teachers more time to do what they do best: teach.  For further information, visit sifassociation.org