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Loudoun County Public Schools Selects Copley & Qlik for Student Success

About Loudoun County Public Schools

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), is one of the fastest growing districts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Established in 1870, LCPS is located in the rapidly growing Washington metro-area. Each year, approximately 2,500 new students enroll in the school system, and one to three new school facilities are opened to accommodate them. Forbes magazine ranks Loudoun County as the wealthiest county in America with a per capita income of $125,900. Smartasset.com ranks Loudoun County the happiest county in America, using an index that considers metrics including physical health, family stability and economic security.

Business ChallengesLoudoun county Public Schools
  • Low utilization and difficult to maintain data systems
  • Decommissioned data warehouse platform
  • Struggle to identifying students who would need help to succeed
  • Needed a solution that could be used across both academic and functional departments
Benefits
  • Loudoun County Public Schools is now able to integrate multiple sets of data, utilizing Qlik Sense® to have real-time access to the right data to make better informed decisions.
  • The district is forming DICE (Data Integration Center of Excellence) teams across instructional and administration groups. Each team is tasked with creating an application that will greatly improve their group’s productivity.
  • LCPS wants to identify at-risk students, so they can determine those who need specific intervention in real-time. With Copley and Qlik Sense®, the district is putting in place data governance to track data elements such as discipline, missed assignments, and grades below a certain level as triggers to a performance issue. From there they can determine proper action to help a student succeed.
  • The district will be utilizing Qlik to define terminology for different data types, determine who owns the data and how clean it is. The district also plans to standardize how data is presented, whether it is heat maps, scatter grams, etc., to constituents such as school board members and parents.
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“Implementing Qlik with the help of Copley has allowed us to have a ‘data scientist in a box’ solution for the entire district. Our hope is that this solution is very cost-effective, with a payback period of only a few months, and extremely easy to use for both statisticians and non-technical staff. Previously we would struggle with identifying the type of help students would need to succeed. Now we have the potential to capitalize on the data to make a difference in our student’s lives. We’re looking forwarding to reaping the benefits of the Qlik platform this coming school year.”
-Rachel Johnson, Director, Information Management and Data Security, Loudoun County Public Schools.

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IMMY Implements Copley’s FDA Extended Solution

About IMMY

IMMY is a biotech company located in the heart of Norman, OK. Founded in 1979, the organization manufactures, markets, and distributes their own innovative lines of diagnostic tests and reagents. IMMY specifically focuses on mycology, or the study of fungi, which was a virtually forgotten area in the clinical laboratory at the time the company was established. Since that time, IMMY has evolved from a company that filled a need in the market to an organization with a global focus on saving lives through affordable diagnostics.

Business Challenges
  • Move away from paper-based validation system
  • Running several systems of record and disparate solutions
  • Lacked the functionality necessary to automate FDA validation requirements
  • Costly manual process
Benefits
  • Implemented the Copley FDA Extended Solution based on Infor CSI (SyteLine) to replace IMMY’s various systems, while also providing all the functionality needed for them to meet FDA regulatory requirements
  • IMMY now has one system that handles all business requirements, including data integrity as well as documentation for GMP risk areas, leading to an improvement in overall business processes
  • Now have in place an ERP solution that scales with its growing business requirements after their move into a new facility in 2016
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“With Copley, we now have one system that handles all of our business requirements, including our need for data integrity as well as our documentation for GMP risk areas, leading to an improvement in our overall business processes.”
-Sean Bauman, CEO of IMMY

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Meridian School District #223 Selects Copley & Qlik to Drive Student Achievements

About Meridian School District #223

Meridian School District #223 is a school system in central Illinois that works to achieve a district culture that encourages collaborative participation among all stakeholders while supporting individual differences and preparing students to be ready for life. The Meridian School District is comprised of four schools ranging from Prekindergarten to Grade 12 with only 1,700 students in the system.

Business ChallengesMeridian school district
  • Move away from manual process to analyze district data
  • Unsustainable, intensive processes to analyze data
  • Costs associated with data analysis for a midsize district
  • Lacked in-depth vision on future school performance
Benefits
  • Meridian School District is utilizing an innovative per student subscription model developed to allow the midsize district to take advantage of advanced analytics capabilities typically reserved for larger organizations.
  • Copley and Qlik delivered a first of its kind per student yearly subscription model that will be a model for other districts who find lower tier analytics solutions are not meeting their needs.
  • Instead of the traditional pricing model which requires a large upfront investment, this new model allows for an annual subscription spread over several years to meet the budget of smaller districts.
  • Meridian now has the tools in place to change their focus from collecting data to using it to drive student achievement.
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“Previously, we were data rich and information poor and had no way to quickly analyze the immense amount of information we were collecting. Now we have the tools in place to change our focus from collecting data to using to drive student achievement. We will be rolling this out to teachers shortly and look forward to improving the success of our students and faculty.”
-Dr. PJ Caposey, Superintendent, Meridian School District #223

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Pine Pharmaceuticals Implements Copley’s FDA Extended ERP Solution

About Pine Pharmaceuticals

Pine Pharmaceuticals provides pharmaceutical compounding, including specialized sterile formulations serving ophthalmologists, retinal specialists, hospitals, medical practices and clinics. Their sterile compounded preparations are made to order and formulated using cutting-edge technology and industry-leading quality assurance practices.

Business ChallengesPine pharmaceuticals
  • Disparate systems which did not connect to each other
  • Manual quality system and inventory processes
  • Lack of integrated solution to mitigate FDA compliance risk
  • Need for system to meet current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
Benefits
  • They have implemented the Copley FDA Extended ERP Solution based on Infor CSI to automate all processes and accelerate the growth of their organization
  • Pine will be moving away from their manual quality system and inventory processes to an automated system
  • Pine will also be looking to put a more formal purchasing and planning system in place that they were missing prior to choosing Copley
  • The ERP system will help to increase efficiency and accelerate business processes while putting in place a solution that helps them meet strict FDA requirements
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“We had a number of different systems in place that required very manual processes to get the information required.” With the continued growth of our company we needed to have a solution in place that could improve our processes to support this growth, while also helping us meet FDA requirements. With Copley we have the support we need to get the solution up and running to automate all of our processes and accelerate the recent success we’ve had here at Pine.”
– Alfonse J. Muto, President of Pine Pharmaceuticals

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HemoSonics Executes Copley’s FDA Extended Solution

About HemoSonics

HemoSonics is a medical device company offering a novel point-of-care diagnostic platform to guide the management of critical bleeding to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs by enabling more targeted transfusion of blood products. The Quantra® System is designed to transform the way clinicians manage coagulation dysfunctions by providing comprehensive, timely information on coagulation status at the point of care. HemoSonics is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, with research, development and manufacturing facilities in Durham, NC.

Business ChallengesHemoSonics | The Copley Consulting Group
  • Move away from manual processes to integrated and automated solution
  • Meet FDA regulatory requirements
  • Reduce regulatory risk
  • Compliance across US and Europe
  • Support for Mixed load manufacturing
  • Automate service and product re-ordering
Benefits
  • Copley Consulting implemented the FDA Extended ERP Solution system, which replaced manual systems and processes, providing all the functionality needed for HemoSonics to support their aggressive growth goals
  • Implemented an ERP system that could keep up with company growth and compliance mandates, while reducing regulatory risk
  • Handled all elements of the manufacturing process, including discrete manufacturing for the actual instrument and process-based for the cartridges
  • The FDA Extended Solution also allows the organization to know their service footprint, such as tracking product warranties, as well as allow their customers to reorder cartridges on an ongoing basis in order to perform critical blood tests
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“With Copley, HemoSonics now has the system and processes in place to address FDA regulatory mandates and CE requirements, as well as satisfying financial compliance requirements. The new system includes mission-critical features such as serial lot traceability to track all components of their products through the manufacturing lifecycle, and to meet FDA software validation requirements, thus ensuring quality control.”
– Steve Erwine, CFO at HemoSonics

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