It’s been two years in the making—The Kentucky School districts have transitioned 173 of their districts over to a cloud based system. They already use the hosted Munis solution for statewide e-mail as well as for other services.
The Associate Commissioner for the Office of Knowledge, Information and Data Services David Couch states, “By moving to Munis' cloud-based model, we're actually increasing reliability and capabilities for our school districts, while taking a lot of work off their IT staff, and cost reductions are a benefit of cloud-computing, but for Kentucky schools, our primary driver was increasing the reliability of services beyond what our aging on-premise infrastructure could provide."
The Kentucky Department of Education selected the Host Munis solution from the company Tyler Technologies, because to bring the districts on-premise infrastructure back to date it would have cost them a significant amount of money. Their cloud based enterprise resource planning system has numerous benefits such as cost savings, a reliable service and an evergreen policy to keep the systems of the school district current.
This migration makes Kentucky the largest school system in the United States on a cloud-based financial management system, according to the company. "Kentucky is a national P-12 leader in cloud computing and has already successfully transitioned many services to the cloud, including statewide email, and we believe that migrating to a hosted Munis solution is the best investment of state dollars for the long term," added Couch.
The rest of the Jefferson County Public Schools are working with Tyler Technologies (News - Alert) on a plan that will migrate the cloud-based system, and in the meantime the 6,400 students and 100,000 students in the district will keep them on the on-premise Munis system they already have in place.
Edited by Brooke Neuman