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COMPANY PROFILE

SUNGARD AT A GLANCE

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Key Locations . Bethlehem, PA . Chico, CA . Lake Mary, FL . London, England

Employees . 2,200

K-12 Experience . 36 years

Parent Company . SunGard Data Systems

Parent Revenues . 5 billion annually

PLUS SOLUTIONS . eSchoolPLUS web student management software Products . IEPPLUS web special education management software . BusinessPLUS web financial and human resources software

Technology . 100% web-based software . Microsoft SQL Server database . Microsoft Windows 2003 Operating System . Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Certified

Product Design . Intuitive browser-based user interface . Centralized, real-time, district-wide database . Accurate and secure data . Quick access to potent information . Easy to deploy and maintain . Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Professional Services . Hardware configuration and installation . Implementation Planning and Project Management . On-site training . 800# call center . Internet support site . Automated call tracking system . On-line documentation . Custom programming . Remote Internet training courses . Application hosting . Remote application administration and data backup

K12 Customer Base . Over 900 public school districts . Thousands of schools . Over 7 million students . 1 out of 7 students nationally . National and Local User Group

CORPORATE OVERVIEW

SunGard Public Sector is a leader in providing software and information technology solutions for local government, emergency response providers, utilities, school districts and other entities within the public sector marketplace. We are a division of SunGard Data Systems with annual revenue of $5

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billion. SunGard is a global leader in integrated IT solutions and eProcessing for financial services. SunGard is also the pioneer and a leading provider of high-availability infrastructure for business continuity. SunGard serves more than 20,000 customers in over 50 countries, including 47 of the world's 50 largest financial services companies. Financial information about the SunGard family of companies is available at www.sungard.com.

SunGard Public Sector aligns its strategies to serve five key customer segments: Local Government, Public Safety and Justice, K-12 Education, Not-For-Profit Agencies, and Central/State Government. SunGard Public Sector solutions and services impact more than 100 million citizens in the U.S. and 50 million citizens in the U.K.

On January 1, 2008, the U.S.-based SunGard Public Sector business units SunGard HTE, SunGard Pentamation, and SunGard Bi-Tech were realigned as SunGard Public Sector Inc., originally incorporated as HTE, Inc. in 1981. The SunGard Public Sector Inc. realignment brings together the diverse public sector products and collective experience of over 2,200 employees to serve more than 1,900 customers in our five key customer segments. Through the software and services solutions we deliver, our mission is to improve the quality of life by helping those who support, develop, and sustain the communities in which we live.

The business units of SunGard Public Sector take advantage of the corporate strength of SunGard and the improved economies of shared resources to fuel coordinated development, sales, and marketing directives, while encouraging growth and support for each separate product line.

ORGANIZATION

More than 500 professionals support the PLUS SOLUTIONS product line within the categories trainer, customer support, account management, or programmer/software developer with a small number representing administrative services. The remaining individuals manage, lead or supervise. They are educated in all areas of the software proposed and are also technically trained in certain areas of expertise. Most employees hold undergraduate and/or graduate degrees in either data processing, accounting or personnel-related fields.

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COMPANY HISTORY

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COMPANY MISSION

Mission

To improve the quality of life by helping those who support, develop and sustain the communities in which we live.

Vision

To be the market leading provider of student, community and financial management software products, hardware solutions and support services by being a fiscally sound organization that exceeds our customers’ requirements and expectation for functionality, usability and quality.

Values

Our customers are our reason for being; our employees enable us to provide our products and services to our customers. Therefore, we will strive to:

. Assure our customers receive exceptional products and services . Treat one another with respect and cooperation in a positive manner . Communicate honestly and professionally with peers, subordinates and management . Be scrupulously ethical in all of our dealings . Be an outstanding citizen in the communities we serve . Emphasize and reward creativity, productivity and quality . Take pride in our work and achievements . Encourage and reward continuous learning and self improvement . Provide excellent career opportunities for our employees . Always make the extra effort in pursuit of our Mission/Vision/Values

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PRODUCT VISION eSchoolPLUS – Web Based Student Management Software

To enhance the education of children by being a highly functional web-based student information system that provides administrators, counselors, teachers and parents with the collaborative, relevant and potent student information they need in order to have high impact when educating their students. As such, it will:

. Maintain comprehensive student information that is both accurate and secure. . Give them actionable insights drawn from their student data. . Enable them to be more effective and efficient in their respective roles. . Work as it should.

In pursuit of this vision it is our mission to ensure that eSchoolPLUS:

. Is a single integrated system with a secure, centralized real-time student database. . Is extremely intuitive to use by all district personnel to manage day-to-day processes and easily access the student information they need when they need it. . Equips teachers with tools and information that help them be more effective by providing an integrated classroom management system for grading, attendance, discipline, performance analysis and parent communication. . Enables district and school leaders to be more effective through the use of real-time dashboards and data analysis tools that provide them with key student, building or district- wide performance indicators and program status, allowing them to focus efforts on data- driven action plans. . Engages parents in a positive manner via an Internet parental portal, connecting them with the classroom and providing them with relevant and timely information to support/direct their children. . Accurately meets and provides regulatory reporting on a timely basis. . Provides leading NCLB and other progress indicators. . Provides all district personnel with a truly integrated and highly intuitive web-based reporting tool to create on demand ad-hoc queries and reports. . Uses industry standards such as the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) to seamlessly integrate real-time student data with other district applications. . Leverages the most current web-based development technologies and hardware operating environments. . Provides low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by being easy to implement, deploy and support. . Is continually enhanced to meet the changing needs of K-12 schools.

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PRODUCT VISION

IEPPLUS – Web Special Education Software

To enhance the education of special needs children by being a highly functional web-based special education information system that provides administrators, counselors, teachers and parents with the collaborative, relevant and potent student information they need in order to have high impact when managing their students. As such, it will:

. Maintain comprehensive student information that is both accurate and secure. . Give them actionable insights drawn from their student data. . Enable them to be more effective and efficient in their respective roles. . Work as it should.

In pursuit of this vision it is our mission to ensure that IEPPLUS:

. Is a single integrated system with a secure, centralized real-time student database. . Is extremely intuitive to use by all district personnel to manage day-to-day processes and easily access the student information they need when they need it. . Engages parents in a positive manner by producing documents that are easy to understand, professional in appearance, and formatted to federal and state requirements. . Enables district and school leaders to be more effective through the use of real- time and historical data, allowing them to focus efforts on data-driven action plans. . Accurately meets and provides regulatory reporting on a timely basis. . Provides leading NCLB and other progress indicators. . Provides all district personnel with a truly integrated and highly intuitive web-based reporting tool to create on-demand ad-hoc queries and reports. . Uses industry standards such as the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) to seamlessly integrate real-time student data with other district applications. . Leverages the most current web-based development technologies and hardware operating environments. . Provides low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by being easy to implement, deploy and support. . Is continually enhanced to meet the changing needs of K-12 schools.

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PRODUCT VISION

BusinessPLUS – Web Financial and Human Resource Management

To enhance the fiscal management of our K-12 schools by being a highly functional web-based financial and human resources information system that provides administrators, district staff and board members with the collaborative, relevant and potent financial or personnel information they need in order to have high impact when managing their students’ educational resources. As such, it will:

. Maintain comprehensive financial and human resources information that is both accurate and secure. . Give them actionable insights drawn from their fiscal and personnel data. . Enable them to be more effective and efficient in their respective roles. . Work as it should.

In pursuit of this vision it is our mission to ensure that BusinessPLUS:

. Is a single integrated system with a secure, centralized real-time financial and human resources database. . Is extremely intuitive to use by all district personnel to manage day-to-day processes and easily access the fiscal or personnel information they need when they need it. . Expedites district staff communication and processing through automated workflow procedures. . Enables district and school leaders to be more effective through the use of real-time dashboards and data analysis tools that provide them with key building or district-wide performance indicators, allowing them to focus efforts on data-driven action plans. . Accurately meets and provides regulatory reporting on a timely basis. . Provides all district personnel with a truly integrated and highly intuitive web-based reporting tool to create on demand ad-hoc queries and reports. . Uses industry standards such as the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) to seamlessly integrate real-time data with other district applications. . Leverages web-based development technologies and hardware operating environments. . Provides low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by being easy to implement, deploy and support. . Is continually enhanced to meet the changing needs of K-12 schools.

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REFERENCES

East Baton Rouge Parish

Address: 1550 South Foster Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Contact & Title: Tonia Yglesias; Jessie Noble, Student Systems Specialist; Chief Technology Officer Phone: 225-922-5465 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 60,000 Client Summary: Customer since 1999 on legacy student management system. Converted to eSchoolPLUS and came live in August 2007. The district is also a current IEPPLUS (Special Education & Medicaid Billing) Client.

Delaware Department of Education

Address: John G Townsend Building, Dover, DE 19903 Contact & Title: Bruce Dacey, Director of Student Support Services Phone: 302-739-4583 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 120k students / 35 districts & charter schools Client Summary: Customer since 1999 on legacy student management system. In 2003 was one of our beta sites for eSchoolPLUS . All 20 districts and 15 Charter Schools use eSchoolPLUS. There are three districts with populations over 15k)

Ouachita Parish

Address: 100 Bry Street, Monroe, LA 71210 Contact & Title: Ray Hebert, Director of Technology Phone: 318-338-5300 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 18,000 Client Summary: Customer since 2001 on legacy student management system. Converted over to eSchoolPLUS for the start of the August of 2008 school year

Calcasieu Parish

Address: 1724 Kirkman Street, Lake Charles, LA 706001 Contact & Title: Jim Crawford, Director of Technology Phone: 337-491-1676 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 30,000 Client Summary: Customer since year 2002 on legacy Student Management System. Recently signed contract to migrate to eSchoolPLUS for the start of the August 2009 school year.

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Desert Sands School District

Address: 47950 Dune Palms Road, La Quinta, CA 92253 Contact & Title: Dr. George Araya, Director of Technology Phone: 760-771-8577 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 30,000 Client Summary: Desert Sands School District is on their fourth year with eSchoolPLUS

Alief Independent School District

Address: 12135 ½ High Star, Houston, TX 77072 Contact & Title: Doug Brown, Director of Technology Phone: 281-988-3355 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 50,000 Client Summary: Alief Independent School District is on their third year with eSchoolPLUS.

Lakota School District

Address: 5572 Princeton Road, Liberty Township, OH 45011 Contact & Title: John Laws, Director of Technology Phone: 513-874-5505 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 30,000 Client Summary: Lakota School District is on their third year with eSchoolPLUS.

St. Bernard Parish

Address: 200 East St Bernard Highway, Chalmette, LA 70043 Contact & Title: Carl Gaines, Director of Technology Phone: 504-301-2000 Email: [email protected] Enrollment: 5,000 Client Summary: Converted to eSchoolPLUS and came live in August 2008. The district is also a current IEPPLUS (Special Education & Medicaid Billing) Client.

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