Posted on 2nd March 2020
SIMS Attendance and Attendance Reporting Course
SIMS Attendance and Attendance Reporting Course coming this March This course provides a comprehensive overview of SIMS Attendance and how it can facilitate your attendance procedures. Delivered b...
Posted on 25th February 2020
Upcoming changes in the Capita FMS 2020 Spring Release
This blog contains information about SBS Finance, MIS and SBS Budgets. Capita has outlined what's new in the upcoming Capita FMS 2020 Spring Release, which is due out in the middle of March. The c...
Posted on 13th February 2020
SBS Schools Data Forum - March 2020
Our first Schools Data Forum of 2020 provides information for Primary, Special and Secondary Schools. Did you know about our Schools Data Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and bein...
Posted on 30th January 2020
SIMS Options Training Courses
We're delivering SIMS Options Training Courses in February We offer two different courses for SIMS Options - SIMS Options Standard (Options 5) and SIMS Options Online. SIMS Options Standard (Optio...
Posted on 28th January 2020
SIMS Standard Reporting Course
SIMS Standard Reporting Course coming this February This course introduces the user to the report designing process in SIMS with the objective to extract useful information from the Pupil/Student d...
Posted on 27th January 2020
February SIMS Training Courses
Take a look at what we have got coming up this February! Our SIMS training courses are ideal for maximising the use of your system, training your team or to prepare you for a new role in a school. Be...
Posted on 22nd January 2020
IMPORTANT – SIMS Census Exclusion Issue
Is SIMS Census exclusion data being reported correctly in your Spring Census? Currently the SIMS 7 and SIMS Primary census applications are reporting permanent exclusions data where the Exclusion...
Posted on 14th January 2020
The end of Windows 7 and what this means for ICT security
As of today, the 14th January 2020, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows 7! What does this mean? Microsoft will no longer create and push out Windows updates There will be no more sec...
Posted on 13th January 2020
MIS Spring Census 2020 guidance
The MIS Spring Census 2020 will be on Thursday 16th January. This blog includes guidance documentation for 3 MIS systems and the fileset for SIMS users. Welcome back after what we hope was a nice re...
Posted on 9th January 2020
Term-time only staff may be owed backdated holiday pay
This blog refers to SBS Budgets, our new look budget management software as part of the SBS Online evolution. There has been a change to the NJC National Agreement on Pay Conditions of Service (G...
Posted on 5th December 2019
The SBS MIS team completes Arbor accreditation
We’re delighted to announce that we have become an accredited support provider for Arbor MIS The Arbor accreditation team visited the SBS Milton Keynes office recently to complete our accreditati...
Posted on 20th November 2019
Free ASP product for schools and MATs - Arbor Insight
Completely Free Performance Analysis Tool for every school and MAT Arbor Insight is a completely free performance analysis tool that benchmarks your school’s performance against the national avera...