Adding up the ones and zeros at the Arizona Department of Education
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Mark Masterson,
Transformation Expert
ArizonaDepartment of Education at a glance
Less money, more hours, more problems
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Adding up the ones
and zeroes at the Arizona
Department of Education
The Arizona Department of Education needed to fix a broken finance and
reporting system. Take a look at their journey of digital transformation.
System contained more
than 900 software bugs
Legacy system down
26 out of 52 weeks
District spent 568,000 staff
hours to fix data errors
Existing system had 2.3M
annual transaction errors,
estimated $30M to correct
Data processing run time from
multiple days to 3 to 5 hours
Instant access to records equips
teachers to meet students where they
are with specific teaching strategies
“Not-so-scary” data empowers educators
Microsoft Aure
Microsoft Azure and Ed-Fi bring
smarter data management
Illustrated
Microsoft Azure
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14 years of data from
preciously-siloed streams
are now unified
District processing 2M
transactions nightly; nearly
500M in first four months
New data enterprise
system estimated to
save 40M in staff time
User-friendly reports reach
diverse stakeholders
More data means smarter
lesson plans, more engaged
students, and happier parents
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Chief Information OfficerData management specialist
65,000
teachers
5M parents
or guardians
More than
1.1M students
2,200
public schools