Ed-Fi alliance continues to deliver industry first features with Ed-Fi version 1.2

AUSTIN, USA: The Ed-Fi Alliance announced the release of Ed-Fi version 1.2 which provides U.S. education agencies free access to high quality data tools to quickly and cost effectively integrate and synthesize student data from multiple information systems.

Rapidly adopted by U.S. states and districts since its launch two years ago, 35 percent of teachers and students are currently poised to benefit from the market leading Ed-Fi solution.

With Ed-Fi version 1.2, licensees can take advantage of added industry first features designed to empower educators to leverage new and existing data quickly and effectively and increase student outcomes.

These enhancements to the solution are the result of real world implementations and licensee feedback. And unlike any other education data technology provider all Ed-Fi licensees have free access to these 60+ community sourced enhancements of 2013, further enabling their implementation of the Ed-Fi solution to:

* Update Easily: The Ed-Fi solution aligns with common education data standards 3.0 and supports an easy upgrade path from one version to the next.

* Integrate Easily: The Ed-Fi Alliance provides the only free, online validation tool for the education market's leading data standard, allowing for instant data validation without requiring education agencies or their vendors to create a custom interoperability testing solution.

* Implement Easily: The Ed-Fi solution now provides enhancements to enable licensees to meet the voluntary standards of both the Americans with disabilities act and section 508 of health & human services for technology solutions.

"We are continuously improving our technology to exceed the expectations of the current market, by listening to and applying the feedback of our licensees;" said Lori Fey, president of the Ed-Fi Alliance. "Our goal is to provide all state and local education agencies with top quality technology tools that enable them to fully harness the power of their existing data."

While state education agencies are often restricted by policies, funding and resources, they should not be restricted by the quality of available technology tools. The Ed-Fi solution is designed to level the playing field and offer the best in class technology to all states and school districts in the U.S.