Your school is sitting on data that could change everything
Most school leaders already know the problem — student data is scattered, reporting is painful, and the insights that could actually help your staff and students are buried somewhere in a spreadsheet no one trusts. Our School Data Assessment gives you clarity, a clear roadmap, and a reason to act — in just a few weeks.
the data problems every school leader knows too well
We talk to school business managers, heads of teaching and learning, and principals every week. The frustrations are almost always the same — and none of them are unique to your school.
Reporting that takes forever
Crystal Reports, manual Excel exports, and IT dependencies mean your team spends hours each week just getting data ready — let alone making sense of it.
Fragmented student data
Academic results, attendance, wellbeing, enrolments, and finance data all live in different systems. Getting a complete picture of one student can feel impossible.
The same manual workarounds
Your staff are smart people spending time on work that shouldn’t exist — exporting, reconciling, copying — because the systems just don’t talk to each other.
no single student lifecycle view
From enrolment enquiry through to graduation, there’s no unified view of a student’s journey. Leaders can’t see what they need to make the calls that matter.
IT is the bottleneck
Business and teaching staff depend on IT for even the simplest data requests. Your team can’t self-serve, and IT is spending time on reports instead of infrastructure.
AI ambitions stalled
The Copilot licence is paid for. The ambition is there. But until your data is clean, governed, and connected, AI can’t do what you actually need it to do.
A structured process.
Clear deliverables
We’ve run this assessment across dozens of Australian schools. It’s deliberately designed to minimise time from your team while delivering a genuinely useful output — not a generic slide deck.
1. Discovery Workshop
A half-day session with your key stakeholders — business manager, IT lead, heads of department. We map your data sources, integration points, and biggest pain areas.
2. Current State Audit
We review your existing systems — Synergetic or other SIS, Microsoft 365 environment, any existing Power BI or reporting tools — and document the gaps, risks, and opportunities.
3. Quick Wins & Prioritisation
We identify the highest-value improvements that could be delivered in weeks, not months — and prioritise them based on your school’s goals, capacity, and existing Microsoft investment.
4. Roadmap Presentation
We deliver a clear, practical roadmap with options, estimated effort, indicative costs, and a recommended starting point — ready to present to your principal, CFO, or board.
From assessment to a fully connect school.
The assessment is the starting point — not the destination. It’s designed to give you the confidence and clarity to take the next step, whether that’s a fast OneView deployment or a full Microsoft Fabric Data Platform build.
School Data Assessment
Understand your current state, identify quick wins, and walk away with a prioritised roadmap built specifically for your school. No guesswork — structured output delivered in weeks.
Oneview for Schools
A unified student performance dashboard giving your educators real-time visibility into engagement, academic results, attendance, and wellbeing — all in one connected view. Built on Power BI, deployed in your Microsoft environment.
Fabric Data Platform
A full Microsoft Fabric data estate for your school — automated ingestion from Synergetic and other systems, a governed lakehouse, self-service reporting for all staff, and an AI-ready data foundation that scales with your school.
Schools that have already made the move
80%
Reduction in report preparation time
1
Single view of every student across the school
0
Crystal reports or manual Excel exports remaining
AI
Ready data foundation, with Copilot integration in progress
Why Partner with Antares?
Antares is a trusted partner to schools and uiniversities across Australia and beyond
- 20+ years of experience in the Education sector
- Strategically aligned with Microsoft in deep data, AI and education
- Locally based and recognised for continuous innovation and personalised guidance guidance
- Quick and seamless integration with ready-made connectors for common school systems
Book a free 30-minute intro call with our education data team. We’ll tell you straight whether the assessment makes sense for your school right now — and what you can expect to walk away with.