The 10 Most Innovative EdTech Solution Providers 2019

The
10
Most Innovative
Solution Providers 2019
BocaVox LLC
Providing Academic Institutions with a Superior Software Solution
Today, the present system of
education focuses on the
implementation of learning
platforms that are driven by the latest
technologies. BocaVox provides
academic institutions with a superior
software solution to support school
administrators and other stakeholders
while empowering students to succeed.
BocaVox CEO, Sue Diseker, is a
former educator dedicated to creating
technology to reduce the bureaucratic
tasks which burden educators and
administrators.
Maestro as the Central Software
BocaVox is the developer of Maestro
Student Information System, a
software (SIS) that consolidates the
many moving parts to managing an
educational institution into a single,
centralized platform to manage the
student lifecycle, from registration to
alumni. Maestro has an API to connect
to other third party systems such as
Learning Management Systems
(LMS), payment gateways, or HR
platforms, etc. Maestro SIS gives
educators and administrations the data
they need to help students succeed.
Everyone who works at BocaVox is
passionate about Maestro SIS. As one
customer put it, Maestro SIS runs
schools! It serves as the central
repository, or backbone of a school’s
infrastructure, automating management
of a students’ entire academic journey
from lead and registration,
communications, demographics, and
academic history, including grades,
attendance, disciplinary actions, and
progress toward graduation to final
transcript. Maestro SIS provides
hundreds of reports and a custom
report builder, as well an easy way to
query the grids for data. Reports can be
viewed as analytics, on role-based
dashboards.
Maestro’s high notes are the vast
reporting capabilities, the various
communication options, and the Plan
of Study, or Graduation Plan feature,
which tremendously facilitates the job
of the registrar, as well as encouraging
students and parents to keep track of
their progress toward graduation.
When an institution chooses Maestro
as the central software that runs their
school, they are not only purchasing a
software tool, but they are entering into
a partnership with a company that they
can depend on to be available when
they need assistance. With BocaVox,
clients get far more than what they pay
for.
Helping Partner Institutions Expand
BocaVox rebuilt Maestro as a SAAS
solution in 2010 so it could scale –
giving it the ability to adapt quickly to
governmental compliance, and pass
along new features and patches to all
its clients. Over the years, BocaVox
developed various tools for its
customers such as dashboard analytics;
an individualized graduation plan; a
reportable forms manager for surveys,
registration forms, individualized
learning plans (ILP), or state reporting
documents; and a number of other
features to support large, multi-faceted
EMO’s (Education Management
Organizations). These features have
enabled many of its partner institutions
to expand their organizations
exponentially. The last Maestro SIS
release included a rebuild of the user
interface to be ADA compliant and
mobile ready. The upcoming release
includes support of competency
grading for a statewide virtual school
that communicates with the
competency features in the Canvas
LMS platform.
The BocaVox team built an engine that
can generate the core code base in a
few hours, and a number of tools and
processes that enable it to add new
features and configurations within
minutes, in lieu of days, saving its time
and its customers’ money. BocaVox
provides tremendous support and step
by step requirements during
implementation to guide new partner
institutions through the process of
documenting their specifications in
detail, for seamless onboarding.
Maestro has tremendous flexibility,
with over 350 optional parameters that
can be set depending on the
institution’s needs, and for large
institutions that manage hundreds or
thousands of schools or colleges in
over 100 countries, Maestro SIS
enables them to manage different
schools and/or programs with different
business rules. One of the clients of
BocaVox manages over 2000 affiliate
programs – including both public &
private schools, and a prison education
initiative - all in a single Maestro SIS
database.
14 | August 2019 www.insightssuccess.com