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The ASCENDER Business System is carefully designed to meet the changing needs of our customers and adapt to evolving state and federal reporting requirements. The business applications are comprehensive, performance-based and incorporate state‐of‐the‐art functionality, significantly increasing user productivity. Please contact R3 for pricing. The software is licensed on an annual basis.

    • Accounts Receivable
    • Asset Management
    • Bank Reconciliation
    • Budget
    • Employee Portal
    • Finance
    • Human Resources
    • Grants and Projects
    • PMIS
    • Payroll
    • Purchasing
    • Warehouse
    • Distribution of soflware updates
    • Software training
    • User group meetings
    • Unlimited technical assistance via email, telephone or virtual platform

DART - Data Analysis Reporting Tool for ASCENDER

Data Analysis and Reporting Tool (DART) is a report-writing tool designed for ASCENDER districts that offers over 500 common reports and 100 custom projects to clients via a web interface.

Services Provided to Participating Districts/Campuses

  • A user-defined query and report writing system specific to the ASCENDER business and student applications
  • Reports produced in Excel, PDF, and text formats
  • Support with connecting to the system and learning to access and request reports
  • Unlimited technical assistance via email, telephone, or virtual platform

Student Software Support

The ASCENDER Student System is the most comprehensive enterprise information system in Texas and is specifically designed to meet the needs of Texas school operations. The scalable design can accommodate districts of all sizes. With the ASCENDER Student system, every application is fully compliant with state and federal mandates.  The software is licensed on an annual basis.

Third Party Integration

The ASCENDER Third Party Integration service enables schools to automate the process of sharing data between ASCENDER and other third-party applications.  ESC3 specialists evaluate the data included in each integration with an extensive view to the transfer of data, security of data, process of creation, and other responsibilities.

Services Provided to Participating Districts/Campuses

  • Consulting with the district technology director about specific vendors
  • Verifying types of data/tables needed from ASCENDER
  • Editing scripts using SQL
  • Verification of the extracted file's data with the district technology director
  • Creating batch scripts to transfer data to the vendor/software program
  • Storage of data using secure File Transfer Protocol
  • Revision of scripts at the beginning of and throughout the year
  • Troubleshooting issues that arise with a specific vendor
  • Ability to assist the district with limited vendor software issues
  • Unlimited technical assistance via email, telephone, or virtual platform