Utah State Office of Education Superintendent Dr. Harrington & DigitalBridge(SM)...

Utah State Office of Education Superintendent Dr. Harrington &
DigitalBridge(SM) Bring Student Assessment Management Tool to All Utah Schools

DigitalSAMS(TM) made available to all Utah schools, allowing educators to do
more for their students with less during challenging economic times

OREM, Utah, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO: Dr. Patti Harrington, USOE Superintendent
Terry Pitts, President & CEO of DigitalBridge

WHAT: Announce the availability of DigitalBridge's DigitalSAMS
solution for all Utah schools, continuing their focus on
technology for the development of students in tough economic
times

WHERE: Lincoln Elementary School
450 East 3700 South, Salt Lake City

WHEN: Tuesday, January 13, 10-11am

A recent Education Week report, Quality Counts 2009, ranked the state of Utah
last in the nation on per-pupil spending nationally, yet first in the equity
of spending. Increasing population and decreasing budget dollars are forcing
Utah educators to do more with less, requiring creative and innovative
solutions to this ever-growing problem.

Utah state educators have made the use of technology a core component of their
education curriculum. Now, their tool set can be further enhanced by
DigitalSAMS, a student progress assessment and management technology solution.

DigitalSAMS is far more than a traditional data warehouse or student
information system. The solution is an innovative software architecture that
gathers both historical and real-time information about an individual student
from a variety of disparate data sources, allowing educators, students,
parents, administrators, and policy makers to gather, access, act on, share,
and, most importantly, protect individual student information. Educators can,
for example, view information such as grades, attendance records, test scores,
and formative and other assessment data for an individual student with
point-and-click simplicity. Access to such information is role-based and
requires authentication, which is part of the privacy management system
inherent in DigitalSAMS.

By extension, individual student-level data can be aggregated for analysis and
reporting even at the classroom level, providing the educator a powerful and
dynamic tool to evaluate the academic performance of each student.

This allows teachers more time to devote to individual student instruction and
performance. Further, as data is gathered at the student level, information
can be easily aggregated to accommodate classroom, school, district, or state
reporting requirements for Utah Performance and Assessment System for Students
("UPASS"), or No Child Left Behind ("NCLB") compliance reporting purposes.

About DigitalBridge(SM)
DigitalBridge was founded in 2004, in Orem, Utah, by industry-leading
executives from the technology, education, healthcare, justice, and legal
industries. The company's mission is to build solutions that enable protected
information sharing between individuals and organizations involved in simple
and complex ecosystems, while protecting the security, privacy, and integrity
of the information. DigitalBridge has developed the revolutionary,
patent-pending DigitalFusion(TM) platform, which incorporates Digital
Information Packet(TM) technology(TM), and is a completely new architecture
for managing information in motion. DigitalBridge solutions provide protected
information sharing to digital ecosystems in the education, justice, and
healthcare markets. The DigitalBridge solutions interoperate with existing
legacy systems without requiring replacement of those systems, allowing
authorized users to access the right information, at the right time, in the
right context, in a secure and timely manner, from any Web-enabled device. To
learn more, please visit: www.digitalbridge.com.

Your ecosystem, now digital.(TM) We do that.(TM)

Welcome to DigitalBridge(SM)

SOURCE DigitalBridge

Melanie H. Dougherty of DigitalBridge, +1-801-616-4428, mobile,
+1-801-696-0487, mdougherty@digitalbridge.com; or Mark Peterson of Utah State
Office of Education, +1-801-538-7635, mark.peterson@schools.utah.gov