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Mariner's Education Group Announces Partnership with Nuventive

Collaboration Improves Institutional Effectiveness through K12 District Strategic Planning & School Improvement Planning Applications

August 19, 2010 – Charlotte, NC – Mariner, an industry-leading business intelligence and performance management solutions provider is collaborating with Nuventive to build Mariner’s SeeChangeTM Plan product which improves institutional effectiveness by linking K12 district strategic plans and individual school improvement plans.

Nuventive provides higher education accreditation planning systems, and their TracDat product is the foundation of Mariner’s new K12 Education strategic planning product.

SeeChangeTM Plans, part of Mariner's SeeChangeTM Performance Management System for K12 , enables school districts to align their strategic goals with individual school improvement plans and their activities. SeeChangeTM Plans is a collaborative tool that establishes a dynamic, data-driven environment, giving teachers, principals and administrators the ability to understand the data, ask questions, provide input, take action and measure outcomes. The result is a clear path to improving district effectiveness while sustaining a culture of accountability.

Built on Microsoft SharePoint™ and using the latest SQL Server technology, the combined solution is a digital management tool for distributing scorecards throughout the district, ensuring vertical alignment from the central office, where strategic goals are set, all the way to the individual school.

“The goal for our combined teams is institutional effectiveness for K12. Working in collaboration with Mariner’s team is the best way to bring these tools to the K12 environment,” adds Nuventives CEO, Dave Raney. Hear Dave describe the value of institutional effectiveness for K12 and why working with Mariner is the best way to bring these tools to K12 .

“Ultimately leveraging data intelligently gives school districts keen insight into their current performance and how they can use their current information to improve future performance,” says Mariner Education Group Vice President, David “Fitz” Fitzgerald. “We’re excited about how we can improve school planning with the Microsoft BI platform and Nuventive’s TracDat. Hear David Fitzgerald talk about school improvement planning with using the Microsoft BI Platform and SeeChangeTM Plans .

Please review Mariner’s Education Solutions and accompanying case studies at: http://www.mariner-usa.com/solutions/education.aspx

About Nuventive
Nuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing and demonstrating continuous improvement in Higher Education. Nuventive customers are institutions, faculty, administrators, students and private sector users. Institutional customers include Western Michigan University, the 14 campus Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Mt. San Antonio College and Providence College. Nuventive is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with distribution in North America, Europe, and Australasia. For more information, please visit www.nuventive.com or call +1.412.847.0280 or 1.877.366.8700.

About Mariner
Mariner, Microsoft’s 2010 US Public Sector K12 Education Partner of the Year Worldwide Partner of the Year, TDWI’s 2009 Best Practices Implementation Partner Award Winner and Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner of the Year in Performance Management Solutions, specializes in business intelligence, data warehousing, business scorecards and performance dashboards to help clients improve productivity and decision making in the education, utility, healthcare and other industries. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with specializations in Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions, Mariner helps organizations translate strategy into action. Mariner-Insight to Achieve. www.mariner-usa.com.

For additional information:
Contact Sally Phillips, Director of Marketing, Mariner
Tel. 704.943.5222
Email sally.phillips@mariner-usa.com

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