Interviews

This blog has been written by Josh Perry, advisor and friend of Compass. Josh is the Director at Edtech experts and co-founder at SmartGrade, Carousel and a reliable informant on the MIS market through his popular blog Bring more data. I’ve been involved in MIS in one way or another since 2012. Candidly, I’ve spent quite a bit of that time frustrated about the state of the market. In 2014 I wrote a blog entitled The structure of the education sector makes data innovation really hard, which contained this observation: ‍ The “MIS” market is not structured to foster innovation. 83% of schools in England use Capita’s desktop-based SIMS product (this helpful Edugeek post has the full breakdown). Cloud-based systems such as the promising, primary-focused Scholarpack are barely 1% of