Authentica Solutions Joins IMS Global Learning Consortium

K-12's Leader in Data Integration and Data Management To Support OneRoster™ Standard

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Jun 07, 2016, 12:57 ET

ATLANTA, June 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Authentica Solutions, a data integration and data management leader, announced today that it is now a member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium.

DataSense is an iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) solution, providing one central administrative web UI for building, deploying, managing, and monitoring all of the data integration processes across multiple applications. The DataSense solution provides an easier way for district's to share all of their purposeful data between their software applications.

Russell Long, Authentica's CEO, said "Our mission is to accelerate the flow of learning. We are pleased to be joining the IMS Global Learning Consortium. We are also excited to be adding the OneRoster v1.0 standard to our growing list of capabilities and, overall, to support open standards."

IMS Global Learning Consortium is a community of education and technology leaders from around the world working together to advance an open architecture that supports learning in the digital age. Its new OneRoster standard is focused on the schools' needs to exchange roster information, including a standardized CSV file format that replaces what is typically exchanged between schools and their vendors.

"We are pleased Authentica Solutions has joined the EDU ERP Alliance and look forward to their participation as part of the IMS member community and going through the conformance certification process for OneRoster," said Dr. Rob Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium.

To learn more about IMS Global, visit http://www.imsglobal.org.

About Authentica Solutions

Authentica provides data management solutions that accelerate the deployment of data integration, management, reporting and analytics for school districts of any size. Authentica Solutions was founded on the premise of evolving the data integration challenge found with K12 districts, departments of education, Higher Education institutions, and K12 corporations where it is no longer an issue but an asset. Removing data integration as a barrier enables the district and schools to focus on the core reason the applications were purchased which is most cases is advancing student achievement.

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