SIF Agent 2.0r1

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For those that don't know, SIF is an acronym for Schools Interoperability Framework.  SIF is a specifications that defines how software applications for K-12 school systems exchange data.

SIF Agent 2.0r1

In August 2005, we built a SIF agent that conformed to the SIF Specification 1.5r1.  This SIF agent has served us well for several years.  Recently, we encountered a situation where we were basically forced to upgrade our SIF Agent because the student information system at the other end of the zone integration server was incapable of receiving transportation data in the 1.5r1 specification.  As a result of their inability to accomodate the data and the specification, we upgraded our SIF agent to the 2.0r1 specification.  There are newer versions of the specification available, but this is the only version of the specification that this particular student information system supported.

In February of 2012, we released our BusBoss SIF Agent 2012 which is capable of communicating to the zone integration server (ZIS) using the 1.5r1 and 2.0r1 specification.

In March of 2012, we encountered another student information system.  This one can only receive information in the SIF 2.2 specification.  We have not yet upgraded our SIF agent to accommodate this version of the specification, but I suspect we will release a 2.2 version of our SIF agent within the next month or so.