References
On this page you will find what some of our SOLSTAR users are saying about our product.
OCM BOCES Syracuse, NY
August 20, 2001
To Whom It May Concern,
I have been using SOLSTAR scheduling system for well over 10 years and have found it to be one of the most user friendly schedulers on the market. Not only is it easy to navigate but the algorithm that the product uses to assign students to classes addresses ALL of the schools requirements.
Being a service organization that provides administrative services to the school district, it is very important that we have the best possible solution for schools to do their scheduling with . SOLSTAR has provide that. I currently have 56 school buildings using this product in the Central New York area.
All of the current users of SOLSTAR are very happy with the product and satisfied with the support they receive. The number of support calls that my office has received over the past 2-3 years has diminished to hardly nothing. The ones that do come in are questions regarding scheduling techniques and not SOLSTAR ‘bugs’.
We have found Mort Stern to be responsive to any errors or user needs that are presented to him.
I highly recommend SOLSTAR to be the scheduler that a school would want to use.
Stephen A. Caffrey
System Consultant
OCM BOCES Central New York Regional Information Center
Syracuse, NY
Region 20 Education Service Center
1314 Hines Ave., San Antonio, Texas 78208
To Whom It May Concern:
We have a licensing agreement in place with M&J Data, Inc. for use of their Solstar product. We develop student accounting software for Texas school districts and use the Solstar product for resource allocation and for producing student course schedules. Our customers find the product to be of high quality and find it to be very effective.
We have enjoyed a good working relationship with M&J staff. It is certainly a pleasure working with Mr. Mort Stern. He is helpful, committed to a high level of service and always proactive in meeting our needs.
Sincerely,
Emilio Flores, Jr., Associate Director
Information Systems Division
(210)370-5250
Gattoni & Associados Ltda
Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil
Dear Mr. Morton
Results of Solstar first scheduling in Vicosa were great! We achieved an index of 94% of student requestsk with 2000 classes and 6,100 students and 2,500 courses. This index was not higher because of the lack of seats in the rooms. some courses have labs occupied at all times, and there is no way to offer more seats. This problem will be solved for the next semester…
Regards and thanks for your attention to Vicosa.
Hugo Penido Gattoni
Palatine District 211
Andy Parks aprk@d211.org
The township high school district 211, the largest high school district in Illinois state, was looking for PC-based scheduling system four years ago.
We compared several famous software at that time but we didn’t find less manual scheduling system.
Meantime we found SOLSTAR scheduling system August 1998 and applied this software to one school under NOVELL network. I trained the student service director who was in charge of Solstar scheduling system for two days and he used the system easily.
The result was successful and the user was happy.
We applied this scheduling system to four other schools the following year. One of the advantages is that I can schedule the student request as many as needed and each school can actually run schedules again and again on the same day after any master schedules or request are changed. As a result, the fully scheduled rate is improved.
Thanks to good software and prompt technical support by M&J DATA INC., we are using SOLSTAR scheduling system very well and simplify our scheduling job.
Career Academy Support Network
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
Solstar was reviewed at Berkeley University and included in the “Scheduling Guide for Small Learning Communities / Career Academies”. You can find the guide on Berkeley Universities website at this link: http://casn.berkeley.edu/resources.php?r=221