Century Graduates to Greater Levels of Service in Virginia

Lakewood, NJ – November 2, 2009

Century Consultants, Ltd. (Century), an ASM Research company, has experienced extraordinary growth in the last 12 months, increasing our Virginia customer base from 16 to 23 divisions. The seven new customers in Virginia include Alexandria City, Brunswick County, Charlotte County, Greensville County, Hampton City, Louisa County, and Montgomery County. Century's premier student information system, Star_Base School Suite®, now serves approximately 507 school/program sites and more than 366,000 students in the state of Virginia.

This growth follows Century's award of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) contract in July 2008. VITA provides Virginia districts the opportunity to purchase a student information system from a state-approved vendor. Most of the seven new counties, with Century's assistance, implemented Star_Base® for the 2009-2010 school year; the remaining few are in current implementation for 2010-2011.

Star_Base® School Suite offers a comprehensive web-based student information system (SIS) tailored to meet the needs of individual school districts. Star_Base® streamlines and simplifies record keeping, as well as information gathering and entry. As a fully online, centralized solution, Star_Base® consolidates numerous data sources, increases teacher productivity, improves data-driven decision making, and provides minimal downtime of database servers during regular business hours. Administrators, teachers, counselors, parents, and students can access information anytime, anywhere. Star_Base® affords educators and administrators unprecedented power and ease of use in managing school information.
Jane Lee of Greensville County Public Schools (GCPS) stated that in their previous SIS, "Elementary school teachers did not have an online grading system and had to keep a grade book. Also, the grade book and report card systems were not linked, so there was always an extra step that teachers had to use to create student grades." When asked to comment on the contributing factors for GCPS choice of Star_Base®, she responded "The ease with which the system can be used. The reports that are included in the system were a big selling point. The 'live' helpdesk was another big factor. The fact that there was someone there to help with a problem and that you don't have to wait, sometimes more than a day for help. The assistance with the conversion of data was a big factor also."

President Bob Ginn of Century Consultants, Ltd. said of the expansion: "We at Century are very excited with the acceptance of Star_Base® by the Virginia Divisions. Century looks forward to a continued partnership with each of our Virginia customers as we continue to work diligently to improve our offerings to ensure we provide our customers with the ability to handle the ever increasing demand for quality and timely data that is needed to manage the instructional processes."

About ASM Research

ASM Research, Inc. is an employee-owned company with a 30-plus year history providing IT systems integration, program management, information security and assurance, healthcare / medical management, and educational / training solutions to Federal Government and public institution clients. For more information please visit www.asmr.com.

About Century Consultants

Since 1977 Century has been committed to providing educators and administrators progressive technologies designed to increase operational efficiencies and improve the quality of education. As a leading provider of student information software solutions, Century was one of the first companies to introduce student administrative software packages to the K-12 education community. Headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, Century has always understood that technology was not the only driving force behind school and district operations. Parents, educators, administrators and even government agencies are fundamentally concerned with one ultimate goal - finding better ways to teach children. Century's student information management software removes many of the instructional and administrative obstacles that stand in the way of making that goal a reality. We empower our customers with all of the necessary information they require to make data-driven decisions. Century's Star_Base School Suite® SIS is Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) 1.5 and 2.0 compliant and is presently used by 215 school districts throughout Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts covering over 2235 individual schools and approximately 1.3 million students.

Additional information on Century Consultants is available at www.centuryltd.com, or via e-mail at marketing@centuryltd.com.