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Data Management and Warehousing for Education MSA provides the necessary tools and analyses for teachers and administrators to improve school and student achievement. By leveraging our world-renowned expertise and core competencies of data, technology and analytics MSA provides the ability to enhance student achievement. MSA education clients benefit from our refined understanding of how they need to view and leverage student performance, as well as our strong technical and data management expertise. MSA's data@factory™ ensures that warehouses are populated with clean data, and in-house architects design each warehouse for a district’s specific requirements. Some MSA data warehouses maintain multiple terabytes of data. The importance of data privacy is ingrained in the culture at MSA, where we: formed a Review Board to develop privacy, confidentiality and ethics policies recognized the need to protect the privacy of patient data prior to HIPAA regulations maintain privacy for student attendance, grades and demographic data have passed audits by ThreatGuard and by Carnegie Mellon University, indicating that MSA practices and systems meet privacy requirements. Our long-term success with regard to the culture, protocols and systems needed for true data privacy makes us uniquely well-positioned to assist you in meeting today's regulatory and best-practices data-management standards for education. EduSense – MSA's Business Intelligence Server & Data Warehouse EduSense is a web-based Business Intelligence Server and Data Warehouse reporting tool that allows teachers and administrators to quickly view standard reports and to easily create custom reports using data gathered from multiple sources. (Student grades, attendance, PSSA scores, etc.) Data can easily be viewed and graphed in order to show data trends over time. Reports can also be generated to show correlations between seemingly unrelated data enabling educators to identify previously unknown cause and effect relationships. EduSense and MSA’s solutions can empower schools to focus on the driving factors of educational success of the students. By using EduSense, MSA can play a role in determining the factors that drive student performance and thus, allow schools to focus on the factors that they can influence. EduSense enables educators to understand, collect and analyze data efficiently and effectively; enabling them to focus on the factors that they deem necessary to improve student performance. Why EduSense? Features of EduSense: Only a web browser is needed to generate and view reports No technical background needed to generate reports Easily export analysis results to Excel, Word and PowerPoint User-friendly tabular reports and a broad range of graphic reports Reports can be saved as dynamic or static to allow different level of drill-down and expansion functions Ability to share reports and distribute reports according to practical needs Automatically generate reports in a fixed cycle via report subscription engine Individualized user authorization settings to ensure data security and reporting flexibilities EduSense Sample Reports Reports available at the District, School, Grade, Class or Student level Teacher and Administrator reports that compare: Standardized State Assessment Test (e.g., PSSA) Results and Student Attendance, Student Letter Grades, Student Demographic Data, and Parental Involvement* Student Grades, Student Attendance, Parental Involvement*and Demographics Many other combinations of reports are available (reports only limited by data provided) * Parental Involvement is quantified by number of logins to parental Dashboard. Download the EduSense Flyer(PDF) EduSense Flyer