Data Integration

CedarExpert is an education data-integration platform from Cedar Labs that was designed to translate information among SIS, learning, identity, and other district applications. It provides a common data model over standards-based APIs, proprietary connections, and flat files so developers and district teams do not have to build a separate custom exchange for every system.

The platform's practical purpose is to move only the required student, staff, roster, and learning data to each destination while handling field mapping, transformation, validation, and complex district rules. Current public product information is limited, however, so districts should verify availability, support, ownership, and the connectors included in their implementation before treating CedarExpert as an actively marketed service.

CPSI provides education data integration, validation, identity, warehouse, and reporting software for districts and state education agencies. Its xDStudio platform collects information from multiple operational systems, transforms and validates it, resolves identities, and places it into operational stores or longitudinal data marts for reporting and exchange.

For districts, the platform addresses the recurring work of moving student, staff, and organizational data among SIS, directories, state-reporting systems, and other applications without relying entirely on manual entry or disconnected batch scripts. CPSI supports several education data standards, but much of its public product material is dated, so current product packaging and California support should be verified.

Edlink is a unified integration API for education technology companies. A vendor builds one connection to Edlink and can then exchange authorized data with many SIS, LMS, identity, and roster providers instead of developing and maintaining a separate connector for every platform used by schools.

Through those connections, an application can support functions such as single sign-on, rostering, coursework and content exchange, grade passback, attendance, and other available school data. Edlink is primarily infrastructure for edtech developers rather than a district-operated integration console, although school administrators authorize sources, configure sharing, and monitor the connections serving their applications.

Instructure Elevate Data Sync is an education interoperability platform that moves roster, student, staff, course, and learning information between student information systems and other applications. It replaces separate vendor-by-vendor integrations with centrally managed connections that understand common education standards and proprietary SIS formats.

Districts and application providers use it to automate recurring synchronization, monitor errors, map local fields, and support two-way workflows such as grade passback. The product was formerly Kimono and is now part of the Instructure platform; current Instructure documentation and service-status reporting continue to identify Elevate Data Sync as an operational product.

Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) is the organization behind School Passport, an education integration and governed data-exchange platform. It connects schools with participating edtech applications while giving districts tools to approve applications, control which data are shared, publish an app catalog, and review usage.

This listing substantially overlaps the separate School Passport product record. For members, the important system is School Passport; GG4L is the company and ecosystem supporting it. The two records should be considered for consolidation during the cleanup pass so district relationships remain attached to one canonical product without losing the historical company name.

Level Data Integration Services is a managed K–12 interoperability offering that automates data movement between a district's SIS or HR system and the operational applications that depend on it. Typical connections provision directory accounts and keep food service, transportation, library, learning, assessment, and other systems synchronized without district staff maintaining a collection of fragile scripts.

Each implementation is configured around the district's source systems, destinations, business rules, and required direction of travel. Level Data operates and monitors the connectors, which can support one-way or bidirectional exchange, near-real-time updates, and both cloud and locally hosted systems.

Marcia Brenner Associates (MBA) develops plugins and provides professional services for PowerSchool SIS. Its products extend PowerSchool with specialized scheduling, attendance, behavior, reporting, fees, device management, data protection, summer-school, and other workflows, while its consulting services cover customization, training, and administrative support.

MBA can help a district connect or adapt PowerSchool data for particular projects, but it is not presented as a general-purpose data-integration platform. The company is active and relevant to districts using PowerSchool; the catalog record should be moved to a PowerSchool services, SIS extensions, or consulting category rather than retired.

Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS) is a Microsoft 365 Education service that imports organization, user, role, course, class, and enrollment data from a district's SIS or student-management system. It uses those records to establish education-specific identities and rosters for Microsoft Teams, Intune for Education, and other Microsoft 365 or compatible third-party experiences.

SDS eliminates much of the manual work of creating classes and keeping memberships current, but it is centered on the Microsoft 365 tenant rather than acting as a general-purpose district integration hub. Current implementations connect through supported OneRoster APIs or Microsoft CSV formats, with administrators responsible for mapping identities, monitoring synchronization health, and correcting source-data errors.

ReadWrite Digital Integrator is an integration-platform-as-a-service built for K–12 data and identity automation. It connects SIS and HR sources with directories, identity platforms, learning applications, device systems, assessment tools, and other district services so accounts, rosters, attributes, and operational data stay synchronized.

The platform replaces recurring exports, manual account maintenance, and fragile local scripts with hosted jobs, configurable district rules, change tracking, alerts, and safeguards. It can combine multiple source systems and support bidirectional workflows, making it particularly useful for complex provisioning, year-end transitions, and applications that are not fully served by a basic roster feed.

School Passport is GG4L's education integration-platform-as-a-service for governed exchange between schools and edtech vendors. It provides prebuilt and standards-based connections while allowing districts to approve applications, control what information each application receives, and publish authorized tools through a district or school app catalog.

The platform is designed to reduce both integration work and unnecessary disclosure of student information. It can provide rostering, data exchange, single-sign-on coordination, privacy controls, and application-usage analytics, and it can operate alongside services such as Clever or ClassLink. This is the product-level record that should likely become the canonical listing if the separate GG4L company record is merged.