<h3>Empowering you to harness the power of data to make more informed decisions.</h3>
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Today, more than ever, school divisions are faced with making critical decisions in an environment that is rapidly evolving.

How are school divisions in the State of Virginia ensuring they have the insights needed to make informed decisions about current year budgets, future financial scenarios, students’ levels of engagement and learning progress, and other major considerations? More than 2,000 public sector organizations across the country have turned to Forecast5 Analytics.

Forecast5’s mission is to make a profound positive impact on students and communities by assisting our clients in the following areas:
<h3>Finance</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>Intuitively build annual budgets</li>
 	<li>Comply with Annual School Report (ASR) data submission requirements</li>
 	<li>Identify new revenue sources, as well as opportunities for
cost reduction</li>
 	<li>Benchmark salaries</li>
</ul>
<h3>Planning</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>Develop multi-year projections</li>
 	<li>Model financial scenarios and future impacts</li>
 	<li>Evaluate boundaries</li>
 	<li>Determine optimal service locations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Students</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>Measure student performance and next grade/college/career readiness</li>
 	<li>Determine remote learning engagement and progress</li>
 	<li>Evaluate eLearning programming effectiveness</li>
 	<li>mprove student achievement outcomes</li>
 	<li>Narrow the “digital divide”</li>
</ul>
<h3>Organization</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>Provide easily understood reports and dashboards for boards and communities</li>
 	<li>Develop presentations to enhance transparency</li>
</ul>
<h3>Find the right solutions.</h3>
<h3>5Sight</h3>
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Put decision making on the fast track. <strong>5Sight</strong> software leverages pre-built datasets and analytics to produce custom analysis and peer comparisons directly to your desktop with speed and efficiency.

With 5Sight, K-12 schools can focus on solutions and implementation. Once you have the insights you need, 5Sight’s powerful pre-designed communication templates make it easy to present complex information in clear, simple, and attractive charts and other visualizations that you can share with your stakeholders.
<h3>5Cast and 5Cast Plus</h3>
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<strong>5Cast</strong> budgeting software is designed to accelerate your financial planning process by eliminating time-consuming data gathering and model building. Populated directly from your accounting system, 5Cast’s powerful hybrid database engine integrates historical perspective, trend analysis, and scenario comparisons, generating reports instantly to support your decision making.

<strong>5Cast Plus</strong> automates operational forecasting to enable you to better manage current year budgets. Upload monthly transactions from your financial system and produce an immediate analysis of current year actuals compared to projected monthly trend amounts, projected year-end position, and a view of your current financial health.
<h3>5Lab</h3>
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<strong>5Lab</strong> makes it easy to combine disparate datasets into a single desktop. With 5Lab, administrators can capitalize on the rich insights contained within their student data, regardless of where that data resides. 5Lab makes it easy to combine all of your data—eLearning activity, internet access, attendance tracking, discipline, course enrollments, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more—and presents your information in easy-to-understand visual dashboards that can be customized to answer the key questions your district is wrestling with to accelerate decision making.
<h3>5Maps</h3>
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<strong>5Maps</strong> an advanced geovisual software tool that helps you answer complex questions and gain valuable new insights using location data, presenting it in simple interactive charts and map visualizations. Designed to be easy to learn, 5Maps enables you to easily get the information you need without having to be a mapping expert to answer timely questions related to addressing the digital divide, assessing service needs, determining building configurations, ensuring programming continuity for all students, and much more.
<h3>Learn more.</h3>
Forecast5 Analytics is committed to enabling academic leaders to more effectively manage their resources, achieve education outcomes, and improve academic ROI in today’s challenging environment for the betterment of their students and communities. For more information, please contact Jeff Carew at jcarew@forecast5analytics.com or fill out a <a href="https://www.forecast5analytics.com/contact-forecast5/">contact us</a> form.