Uncommon Schools Selects QlikView to Help Sustain Growth

NEW YORK, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity Info Systems announced today that Uncommon Schools has selected Infinity Analytics powered by QlikView to help manage, track and improve the already outstanding performance of the urban charter public schools in their network.  Infinity Analytics is an automated business analytics solution that helps organizations mine and analyze relationship and transactional data from a myriad of data sources, and leverage that information to guide informed decisions to boost performance.  

Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization whose mission is to start and manage outstanding urban public charter schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Uncommon Schools builds great schools by developing and managing philosophically aligned, highly accountable, and geographically linked networks in the New York/New Jersey area.

With Infinity Analytics powered by QlikView, Uncommon Schools will be able to implement a comprehensive interactive dashboard of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a matter of weeks.  By leveraging QlikView's in-memory analysis capability, Infinity Analytics will enable Uncommon Schools to combine data from several different data sources to make information instantly available in intuitive, easy-to-use dashboards featuring interactive charts, graphs and tables. Uncommon Schools will be in a position to make faster and smarter decisions because of the improved business insight delivered via the dashboards.

"We're looking to grow from 16 schools serving 3,000 students to over 30 schools, serving nearly 12,000 students in less than 4 years," said Uncommon Schools CEO Evan Rudall. "We needed to gain insight into the individual performance of our schools, in order to keep our aggressive growth on track."

"We are honored and excited to partner with Uncommon Schools," said Yacov Wrocherinsky, founder and CEO of Infinity Info Systems.  "By deploying an integrated analytics system, Uncommon Schools will continue to fulfill its mission of closing the achievement gap and preparing low-income students to graduate from college."

About Uncommon Schools

Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit organization that starts and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Uncommon builds uncommonly great schools by developing and managing regional networks that are philosophically aligned and highly accountable. Based in New York City, the organization has created a home office from which it provides management services that allow school leaders to focus on instructional leadership. Uncommon manages eleven schools in New York City, upstate New York, and Newark, New Jersey and has two associate member schools in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit www.uncommonschools.org.

About QlikTech

QlikTech's powerful, accessible business intelligence solution enables organizations to make better and faster decisions. Its QlikView product delivers enterprise-class analytics and search with the simplicity and ease of use of office productivity software.  The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered makes calculations in real-time enabling business professionals to gain insight through intuitive data exploration. Unlike traditional business intelligence products, QlikView can deliver value in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. It can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or on a laptop or mobile device—from a single user to large global enterprises. QlikTech is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with offices around the world and a network of over 1,100 partners to serve more than 13,000 customers in over 100 countries worldwide.

About Infinity Info Systems

Founded in 1987, Infinity Info Systems develops customer relationship management (CRM) and business analytics solutions for clients in the financial services, life sciences, business services, nonprofit, media and manufacturing/distribution industries around the world. Infinity's technology solutions, services, training and support help organizations become more profitable by improving sales, marketing and customer service effectiveness.  Infinity has trained more than 130,000 professionals and successfully implemented more than 3,500 CRM systems. For more information contact us at 800.354.4228 or visit us online at www.infinityinfo.com.

SOURCE Infinity Info Systems