Salamander Integration Suite automatically synchronises user accounts, groups, permissions and more from your School Management Information System.
Integration Options Speak to an expertAutomated user creation
Automatic Office 365 licensing based on who is in the management system.
Timetable synchronisation into Exchange, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Microsoft School Data Sync support
Automated Google Classroom provisioning
Photo synchronisation to Office 365 and G Suite
A fully managed service
Every school or other academic institution, has the problem of creating and disabling users and groups as pupils & staff join and leave during the year. This is especially the case at the start of the academic year. It is vital that these accounts are created accurately, consistently and in a timely manner. Without their accounts being set up correctly the school's users won't have access to email, documents, classroom tools and other systems within the modern school.
Salamander Integration Suite solves this problem as it links directly with your management information system. It is fully automated so that your network and relevant users, groups and permissions reflect your management system. As long as your management system is up-to-date, so is your network. Everyone has the access they need to the resources they use, whether that’s in Microsoft 365, Exchange, Google Workspace or any of the other systems SalamanderSoft integrate with.
What is even better, is that we set it all up for you and manage the installation. Leaving you free to concentrate on other important tasks. Every aspect is completely configurable allowing you to have a truly bespoke set up without having to spend days writing your own scripts or being limited by what other systems allow you to do.
Salamander is completely customisable and fits your existing structures and follows your conventions. We work closely with you to ensure everything is reflected and if you are not ready for whole school implementation, you can test it with specific groups.
Some of the things Salamander Integration Suite does for you, aren’t possible manually. These include: creating email distribution groups based on groups in your management system; synchronising timetables; and pulling through photographs.
Salamander takes the manual processes out of managing your systems, leaving you to focus on more important things. Everyone saves time with Salamander as everything is always up-to-date and people can log in as soon as they need to start learning or teaching.
Staff know all of the pupils, and each other, as photographs from the management system display across the network. Everyone knows where they need to be as their timetables display on their Exchange or Google calendar.
If you are using or planning to use Office 365 for Education or G Suite for Education then Salamander Integration Suite can also create users, groups, classrooms, timetables and more in these cloud services.
User account management
Group Management
Pupil and staff email
Pupil, staff and cover timetables
Classroom Tools
Network administration
There won't be any downtime on any of the services we integrate with.
No, it's an application that we have developed over 14 years. It is driven off text configuration files, but these are configuration descriptions not scripts.
Yes, we only use published supported integration points so there's nothing secret that we use. However, the product has developed over 14 years and we have a team of almost 30 people delivering and supporting our integration services to schools. We consider ourselves to be the experts in this field and our years of experience means that there's few situations we haven't come across before, and even fewer new ones we can't solve. Plus if you write the scripts, then when you are unavailable or move on, who will maintain them?
We have support for all the major MIS systems in the UK and are working to extend this support to MIS/SIS systems in other markets. If yours is not on the list contact us to see if we already support it, otherwise we can easily add support for it.
Discuss your needs in more detail with Jon Atkinson our Managing Director and Integration Suite for Schools specialist.
Contact Jon AtkinsonSalamanderSoft has partnered with Excalibur Academies Trust to automate the management of staff and pupil data in Active Directory and create and manage Microsoft Teams through Azure Active Directory. This has saved the Academy an enormous amount of time and money, as well as supporting learning throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.