wisconsin usa key people james king founder cliff king ceo scott glinski president website www.skyward.com skyward is a software company specializing in k 12 administrative software packages used in schools to manage and store information pertaining to student management human resources financial management food service and special education . skyward is a provider of school administrative software to more than 1 900 k 12 school districts worldwide . contents 1 applications 2 history 2.1 1980 2000 2.2 2000 2010 2.3 2010 2014 2.4 2014 present 3 awards 4 references 5 external links applications edit skyward applications are currently used by school districts and municipalities in 22 us states and around the world in venezuela greece saudi arabia lebanon china mexico switzerland and india . skyward s student information system and erp solutions are designed to automate and simplify daily tasks in the areas of student management financial management and human resources . students guardians use skyward s family access product to stay up to date on students grades school schedules food service accounts and to communicate with teachers and other district staff . students use skyward s student access product to check their own grades and schedules work on online assignments and communicate with teachers . history edit 1980 2000 edit skyward was founded by jim king in 1980 in stevens point wisconsin under the name jim king and associates . king worked as a subcontracted employee for a variety of businesses around wisconsin writing human resources and accounting software for ibm 5100 computers . in 1981 king wrote software for merrill area public schools which was subsequently purchased by three other districts in wisconsin . in 1984 jim king and associates incorporated as a company and adopted the name school administrative software incorporated sasi in 1988 and 1992 sasi opened offices in st. cloud minnesota and bloomington illinois respectively . in 1994 sasi purchased matrix computers a special education administration software company and sasi changed their name to skyward inc. in 1998 and 1999 skyward opened offices in lansing michigan and indiana . 2000 2010 edit in 2001 skyward inc. partnered with the washington school information processing cooperative wsipc to integrate into 297 districts throughout the state . in 2002 skyward opened an office in austin texas . in 2006 skyward partnered with their first international customer the american embassy school in new delhi india . in this time skyward expanded sales to utah pennsylvania new jersey new mexico tennessee and florida . 2010 2014 edit in 2011 the texas education agency selected skyward as a preferred vendor of student administrative software for texas schools . in 2013 rhode island and tennessee education departments both selected skyward as a preferred vendor of student administrative software for their schools . 2014 present edit in march 2016 skyward moved all corporate operations to its new world headquarters building in stevens point wi . 1 awards edit 2008 wisconsin family business of the year 2012 eschool media readers choice award 2012 2013 and 2014 district administration magazine top 100 products 2013 2015 edtech digest cool tool award 2 references edit skyward completes move to new world headquarters plans to hire more staff . the portage county gazette . 8 april 2016 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . skyward 2015 award . skyward . 24 march 2015 . retrieved 11 april 2016 . external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title skyward & oldid 740793446 categories software companies based in wisconsin navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 september 2016 at 09 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view