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Postmortem: Kodiak
REALbasic goes to school
Issue: 4.6 (July/August 2006)
Author: Brad Rhine
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Article Length (in bytes): 16,590
Starting Page Number: 11
RBD Number: 4608
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Kodiak is a student information system designed to be powerful, easy to use, and scalable. To answer the first question everybody asks, it's called Kodiak because our school mascot is a bear.
Elizabethtown Area School District is a medium-sized district located in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania. We have approximately 4,000 students enrolled on any given day, taught and supported by a staff of dedicated and talented teachers, aides, administrators, and support staff. I joined that support staff as a Technology Specialist in early 1998.
Since that time, my responsibilities have grown and changed significantly. I started out doing mostly helpdesk work. I was the guy running around hooking up printers, installing software, and plugging in network cables. It was fun at the time, but the amount of work continued to grow and it became more difficult to track what needed to be done. As our technology staff grew to three people, we also needed a way to manage the workload collaboratively. I was tasked with setting up a database that we could use to track our helpdesk tickets. I first turned to FileMaker Pro for our solution. This worked reasonably well for a while, but we soon ran into its limitations, which I won't get into here. After a few years, it became increasingly obvious that we needed a more robust solution.
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