Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dallas-based Tyler Technologies reaches agreement with San Diego Unified School District

By Pegasus News wire

DALLAS — Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced today that the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) has signed a contract for the purchase of Tyler’s VersaTrans transportation management system, part of Tyler’s range of software solutions for the K – 12 school market. The agreement includes software licenses, related professional services, maintenance, and support.

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San Diego educates over 132,000 K – 12 students at 221 educational facilities, and employs approximately 15,800 people. It is the second largest district in California and the eighth largest urban district in the United States. SDUSD schedules and transports more than 21,000 students daily. The District, which has until now used information systems developed in-house, performed an extensive review process prior to choosing Tyler Technologies as its transportation system vendor.

“Transportation staff did on-site visits with other school districts, worked closely with technology committees from the Council of the Great City Schools and state and national transportation associations with the goal of finding off-the-shelf solutions which would not only improve the current process for students, but also meet the districts long-term District Wide Application (DWA) needs. After an extensive bid process involving Transportation, IT and Special Ed, Tyler was selected as the best solution for the district. The system is at the forefront of automated bus routing software and continues to be the growing choice of school districts nationwide,” explained Alexandra Robinson, SDUSD’s director of transportation services department.

“Tyler’s VersaTrans solution provides standardized and optimized automatic routing, which may point out possible route efficiencies thus providing shorter and more efficient bus routing. Web interfaces provide district-wide access to data. In addition to routing, planning and field trip management, the features of this system allow for performing bell time studies and other ‘what if’ scenarios quickly and accurately. The solution will also align with the current GPS and pre-trip inspection platforms already in place on the vehicles. Tyler’s customer service department provides on-site implementation and project management, and customer service and technological assistance via a toll-free number and over the Internet. Over time, the District expects to see cost savings through optimized bell times and fuel reductions,” Robinson added.

Based in Dallas, Tyler Technologies is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments.

Source: Tyler Technologies

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