Welcome Back!
Hello ECNO members,
 
With the new school year officially underway the board, volunteers and staff from ECNO wanted to welcome you back. We hope you had a great summer either upgrading systems or taking some well-deserved time away from work.
 
We are excited about this coming school year and have plans in store to continue expanding our Shared Technical Services (STS) services, plan for an upgrade to K212 HR-Payroll and growing our relationship with Microsoft. Regardless of which project we are working on, our focus continues to be looking for ways to use IT to support student success in the classroom and find board efficiencies across all your sites.
 
As part of our ongoing effort to tell the ECNO story, we are preparing a special mailing for all Ontario Directors of Education and SBO’s. This will be going out over the next week or two and will include information about our growing suite of programs and services. We wanted to let you know ahead of time so that if you get questions from your leadership about ECNO you can be ready to tell them about the good things we are accomplishing together.
 
Thank you for your support of ECNO. All the best for another successful school year!
 
 
Sandra Quehl, Executive Director
ed@ecnoconnect.org
 
AGM Save the Date
A reminder that our 2018 AGM will be happening on Thursday, December 6 at the Westin Hotel in Toronto. You are welcome to join us for an update on what has been a busy year and a look head to 2019. We will also be electing our new board of directors. More information and details about the board nomination process to follow.
K212 HR-Payroll Upgrade
ECNO and Keous are proud to announce that version 5.1 of K212 HR-Payroll (HRP) will happen on March 28, 2019. Version 5.1 will move HR modules into a web-based single page application design following standard framework and development principles that will eventually build the foundation for a fully responsive web application for both HR and Payroll. The upgrade will have features that our members have asked for and will build on the 5.0 Portal infrastructure and maintain a secure application level access infrastructure and enhanced database security utilizing the K212 API for a full single responsibility layer architecture.
 
This product update will mean that the IPPS.net 4.1 SQL and Oracle versions will no longer be supported after March 2019. The ECNO board, based on input from the EAC, made this decision to sunset version 4.1 as a way to focus our development efforts on a web-based platform.
 
If you have any inquiries, please contact ECNO at  dcs@ecnoconnect.org , or Keous at  solutions@keous.com .
A reminder that the team from Keous Solutions is here to support your needs for our
K212 products. You can reach their support team by submitting a ticket at  k212support.keous.com  or by calling 1-866-99-KEOUS (1-866-995-3687).