April 1, 2009 — Chattanooga — Today the Chattanooga Technology Council named Skoodat as a finalist for its Early Innovator Award, honoring emerging technology-based companies that have produced a groundbreaking prototype product or beta stage software application that represents the potential for a significant competitive advantage.
Skoodat CEO, Ken McElrath, and other 2010 Early Innovator Award Finalists will present at the April meeting of the Chattanooga Technology Council held on Wednesday, April 21, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. It will be held at the M.L. King Building, 317 Oak St., Room 108. Lunch will be provided. Cost is $20 for tech council nonmembers and is included in membership dues for tech council members. Reservation deadline is Thursday, April 15. To make a reservation, call 209-6813, or register online.
Skoodat makes education data useful, for everyone, in real time.
Skoodat's cloud education toolbox and platform enable education organizations to get out of the information technology infrastructure business and focus on education innovation. Skoodat removes the barriers associated with older technologies, providing cloud software applications, a development platform and infrastructure services that can help schools dramatically cut costs while improving performance through effective, practical use of historic and real-time data. Skoodat solutions are fully integrated through an open cloud development platform and a standards-based, certified cloud infrastructure that has been proven over 10 years by more than 67,000 customers and over 1.5 million current, daily users.
As a visionary social and environmental entrepreneur, Skoodat also helps schools preserve resources for today and tomorrow by eliminating the need to install and power expensive server farms and by dramatically reducing paper use. Skoodat is proud to be a salesforce.com Power of Us partner and a certified B Corporation, demonstrating our commitment to social and environmental stewardship.