About Us

Relational Data specializes in enterprise-class database design and web-based applications for school systems that run on the IBM Power Systems, iSeries, and AS/400 servers.

What do we mean by 'enterprise class'?

• Scalable - software that performs well and meets the needs of a district with 50 or 500,000 students.
• Customizable - offering user-defined fields, attributes, menus, and more.
• Extensible - databases designed with expansion in mind and a run-time environment that supports any web-based application, report, or module, whether or not we create it, so that as your needs advance, the software can too.
• Consistent - applications are model driven and have similar interfaces, minimizing any learning curve. Data is used across all applications, eliminating the need for duplicate entries and the inconsistencies that result.
• Modern - sleek design and lightning-fast user interfaces give a desktop-like experience through the web.
• Cost effective - supporting more users while requiring fewer hardware and human resources.
• Efficient - a positive user experience makes the software a tool that helps teachers and administrators more easily reach the goal of educating children.

Relational Data software is currently deployed in over 100 districts nationwide. Our mission is to help educators reach their goals, while reducing the cost to districts. Our applications will be of use to you, and we're happy to customize them to meet your needs. We hope that you will join us.

It's education. We know it's your passion. It's our passion too. Technology should only be adopted if it creates new educational opportunities, makes teaching easier, or saves money.

It's been a rough beginning. Too many districts find themselves trying to manage disparate technologies while watching money from stretched budgets disappear into system upkeep, maintenance, hardware, and training costs. IT personnel rush around troubleshooting problems; they don't have time to enhance the systems. Data is spread out through multiple applications on multiple platforms, creating errors and discontinuity.

Meanwhile, teachers, administrators, parents, and students have to take a 'make it work' approach to systems that they don't really understand, or that don't really meet their needs.

Our vision is of a comprehensive school administration system that:

• has continuity across all of the applications, making them easier to learn and use;
• promotes parent/teacher interaction and involves parents in the education of their children;
• is a useful tool, with the functionality that teachers need;
• makes it easier and faster to enter data, generate reports, and analyze student progress;
• saves on administrative costs, freeing money to cover educational costs;
• gives easy access for parents, students, teachers, and administrators to the information that they need to help improve education;
• reduces IT costs and data errors by hosting data on a powerful platform and eliminating the need for disparate technologies;
• lets teachers post learning resources, assignments, quizzes, etc. online and helps students stay on track.

We hope that you'll be a part of this vision. If you have input on what we should included to meet these goals, or if you'd like to learn more about what we have to offer, please contact us.

1. Reduce costs of in-house development by offering pre-packaged (but extensible) software solutions, by partnering with organizations on projects, by specializing in unique proven models, code generators, tools, and interfaces, and by marketing products to and dividing costs between more organizations.
2. Improve end-user productivity by offering more efficient, streamlined user interfaces, more functionality, and ability to toggle between multiple concurrent applications while retaining application state.
3. Reduce hardware, energy, bandwidth, operating system, application server, portal, and DBMS runtime costs by offering more efficient runtime interfaces that support more users with less overhead.
4. Reduce costs and effort of managing disparate distributed redundant systems by offering comprehensive, reliable, integrated systems on a single platform.
5. Enable applications to be extended, customized, and added by offering user defined menus and other open interfaces within a portal context and using a standard database.
6. Reduce costs, effort, and errors associated with distributing applications and data to workstations by centralizing applications and data on a single server.
7. Reduce the risk of new development by adapting proven models to new subjects, and by offering annual subscription licensing to products as an available alternative to full payment on delivery.
8. Create best-in-class software and involve the user community by seeking client feedback and recomendations to drive continuous improvement of existing applications and development of new applications.
9. Provide excellent client support through personal relationships, easy-to-access training, and immediate, qualified response to questions and requests.
10. Reduce the cost of modernization and ease transition to the new database by developing custom migration applications for each installation, creating access to existing data for new applications, and eliminating the need for duplicate entries or data re-entry.