A new student, Eve, starts school tomorrow at TRIG Elementary in Somewhereville, MI. In order for Eve to receive appropriate educational services and access to resources (such as lunch!), Eve's information must be entered into several data systems including a student information system (SIS), food service (such as Meal Magic), transportation, library, data warehouse, early literacy assessment, and possibly special education.

Last year, the district struggled with inputting this information on a timely and consistent basis. Data was hand-entered into a few of the systems and the integrations in place were incomplete and prone to breaking. Consequently, students often had to wait while school employees worked to make arrangements because they simply didn't have the data they needed in a timely and accurate manner.

This year, Eve's district is participating with The Michigan Data Hub. Once her information is entered into the district SIS, that information is sent to a regional data hub where all of the other district systems can get that data easily and consistently. In addition, the food service system sends lunch status information back to the data hub which is then relayed to the SIS and eventually used for state reporting. Even though the district changed their library vendor, the standardized connectivity of the data hubs allowed for the new library system to receive the data with little work. As a result, Eve was able to have an account in the food service system, check out a book at the library, and take an early literacy assessment without any issues  because all of these systems were fully integrated.