For Immediate Release
IBM Joins With Aradyme Corporation
to Provide State Education Solution
OREM, Utah - July 26, 2006 - Aradyme Corporation (OTCBB: ADYE), a data
management company that provides world-class solutions in data
migration/conversion and data integration, today announced that IBM (NYSE:IBM)
has joined forces with Aradyme to provide an end-to-end solution to help state
education reporting agencies comply with "No Child Left Behind" ("NCLB") and
other reporting requirements. This solution combines Aradyme's cutting-edge
Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) Solution for State Education
Reporting(TM), which facilitates fast, flexible data collection, with IBM's
education data warehouse offering IBM "Insight at School" (IAS) data warehouse
and reporting capabilities.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires states to more closely monitor the
overall performance of schools to ensure they make "Adequate Yearly Progress"
(AYP), as well as keep track of how various subgroups of students are performing
over time in areas such as math, reading, and science, and what effect
intervention programs are having on their performance.
Aradyme's ETL portion of the end-to-end solution for State Education increases
the efficiency of collecting student-level data, eases the reporting burden on
district, state and federal government agencies, provides easily-accessible data
to support decision-making, and works with individual districts' existing IT
systems.
"Joining forces with Aradyme, educators finally have access to an end-to-end
solution that supports the ever-changing environment for state reporting with
both the Districts and State Education Departments in mind", said Kirsten
Schroeder, IBM Partner, K-12 Education. "Aradyme's ETL solution allows us to
offer state agencies a streamlined process for collecting student-level data
from school districts, while taking advantage of the Award-winning IBM Business
Intelligence (BI) data warehousing. The solution streamlines the efforts of
districts to review, cleanse and approve their data. These solutions will
improve the quality of the data at the state and district levels and provide
better support for decision-making capabilities."
With approximately 16,000 school districts overseeing 85,500 U.S. public
schools, it is easy to see just how quickly the process of collecting, storing
and reporting on the data for state and federal legislative requirements can
become overwhelming. The incentive to comply with NCLB requirements is strong,
as the federal government has spent more than $134 billion on NCLB programs
to-date, and has announced a proposed budget of $24.4 billion for 2007.
"Aradyme is very pleased to be working with IBM to jointly deliver an
`end-to-end' solution that effectively supports state and district educators in
meeting NCLB requirements. Our Dynamic Schema Engine(TM)-based ETL Solution is
highly configurable and extensible, allowing states to better manage school and
student performance by more efficiently collecting and managing data," said Don
Hutchings, vice president of sales for Aradyme. "This is another validation of
the data management technologies and solution framework we have developed."
Aradyme developed its data collection and management framework based on
supporting complex state data management efforts in the areas of voting,
corrections and public safety, as well as for the energy/utilities and
technology industries. IBM has worked with Aradyme to leverage this framework to
support an education environment, serving K-12 school districts, state education
agencies, and other education entities. Aradyme and IBM have run proof of
concepts with various educational agencies, testing the data collection and
management framework in supporting district to state data collection efforts.
This State Education Solution is designed to be platform independent, which
allows the education data warehouse to fit into a state's or district's existing
and future architecture and provides:
* Over 150 report templates, including Adequate Yearly Progress
reports required by NCLB;
* IAS Dimensional Data Model;
* Proven education data models and ETL plans at both the state
and district level;
* Consortium Model that allow districts to partner together to
continue solution enhancements at a shared cost;
* Award-winning IBM Business Intelligence (BI) data warehousing
methodology
It also allows for a host of features such as Aradyme's eHarbor(TM) secure
communications portal and workflow technology. This data management portal
automates data collection, validation, transformation and quality assurance
processes, and provides error reporting and feedback, a complete data audit
trail, and other valuable capabilities within a unified technology framework
built on Aradyme's Dynamic Schema Engine.
Pricing & Availability
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The State Education Solution is available immediately and the pricing varies
based on the size and scope of an individual state or district's requirements.
To learn more about the solution, please read the Aradyme ETL solutions brief at
www.aradyme.com/education or see the solution information on IBM's website at
www.ibm.com/education.
About IBM
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IBM is the world's largest information technology (IT) company. IBM is aligned
around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and
depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of
industries, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients' most
intractable business and competitive problems. Although we remain committed, as
ever, to lead the development of state-of-the-art technologies, and the products
and service offerings built around them, we measure ourselves today by how well
we help clients solve their biggest and most pressing problems.
About Aradyme Corporation
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Aradyme Corporation is a data management company that provides world-class
solutions in data migration/conversion, data integration and application
development. These solutions are made possible through a mix of proprietary
next-generation database technologies, methodologies and experience that enables
customers to simplify their data management efforts and substantially increase
the quality of their data. By leveraging the company's dynamic-schema database
management system, customers are able to bypass the limitations of traditional
database technology and achieve greater flexibility in data handling. For more
information about Aradyme, call (801)705-5000 or visit the company's web site at
www.aradyme.com.
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Contact:
Russell Arnold
Aradyme Corporation
Phone: (801)705-5020
Email: russell.arnold@aradyme.com
Kirsten Schroeder
IBM Corporation
Phone: (703) 633-4953
Email: kirsten.e.schroeder@us.ibm.com