{"id":1421,"date":"2015-10-04T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/how-clever-is-clever\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:08:22","slug":"how-clever-is-clever","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/how-clever-is-clever\/","title":{"rendered":"How clever is Clever?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clever is\u00a0a software company that enables K-12 districts to easily manage the process of sharing student information with application providers. The company is simplifying the data sharing process by enabling schools districts to use Clever as the single interface between the district’s student information system and all applications.<\/p>\n

Currently, districts use student information systems to\u00a0house their student data such as demographics, enrollment, performance, etc.. These \"Connections\"information systems are generally outdated, cumbersome to manage, and do\u00a0not have robust\u00a0API capabilities to facilitate easy data sharing between the enterprise system and\u00a0other applications. Additionally, the district’s staff do not have the expertise\u00a0or capacity to continually integrate and manage individual applications. Coupling these issues with the increasing\u00a0adoption\u00a0and efficacy of learning applications, districts have had to find manual system workarounds to facilitate data sharing between their information system and the applications that schools and teachers demand. This has led to manual, redundant, insecure, and unreliable data sharing between the application administrators, ie. teachers, principals, etc., and the application providers. This process has frustrated all parties: the district staff who have to manually extract,\u00a0upload, and maintain data for\u00a0each application, vendors because the data is\u00a0often unreliable and out of date, parents because their student’s data is\u00a0insecure, and students\/teachers because they have\u00a0to log onto each application separately and manage multiple logins and passwords. By identifying and servicing the pain points of all of these constituents, Clever has been able to build a successful multi-sided platform that has experience\u00a0tremendous growth in just three years.<\/p>\n

Clever’s solution is a multi-sided platform where districts, application providers,\u00a0and application users interact. Clever integrates with the district’s student \"Connectionsinformation system where the relevant data fields are shared. This active data is then shared securely through the Clever platform with the chosen application providers. Once the applications are selected and the relevant\u00a0information is shared, Clever acts as a single sign on solution for users of all applications. This passport function simplifies the user’s experience by allowing the students and teachers to seamlessly use the\u00a0applications for instruction without disruption due to\u00a0login issues. These features create a win-win-win for all parties.<\/p>\n

Despite its clear benefits, Clever had to do a number of things right in order to achieve the scale it has today with adoption by 44,000 US schools, which is about one-third of the K12 schools in the US, and\u00a0200 application providers. In order to entice districts to\u00a0adopt their service, they offer the software free of charge. This makes Clever’s value proposition almost irresistible for districts: it’s\u00a0free, simplifies the lives of administrators, is secure, and allows districts to more quickly adopt the best applications for easy student use. Once the start-up was able to get\u00a0districts to sign on, application providers were eager to integrate because it significantly simplified the process and reduced the cost of launching their application with each\u00a0district and\u00a0made their applications more effective by providing\u00a0correct data. Once the platform began to gain traction,\u00a0there were direct network effects,\u00a0which benefited both parties.\u00a0More application providers were eager to integrate with clever as more districts signed on and more districts wanted to adopt the product as more applications became available. Integration with Clever became a selling point for vendors and districts. Now, Clever is monetizing its platform by charging application vendors $5 to $25 per school per month.<\/p>\n

Clever has been very successful but it must\u00a0maintain the its current value proposition for all parties in order have\u00a0continued success. If the per school charge for application vendors to\u00a0use Clever becomes too high, the vendors may seek to collaborate and build a new platform to replace Clever and lower their costs. Student information system vendors could seek to displace Clever and capture value by\u00a0building the same functionality into their enterprise solutions there by eliminating the issue that Clever solves. If Clever does not maintain high levels of\u00a0data security then districts could seek to replace them with a more secure solution.<\/p>\n

Overall, I believe that Clever will continue to be successful for many years to come due to the slow pace of technological change in K12 districts,\u00a0the urgent need for applications in\u00a0classrooms, and the secure and strong network Clever has been able to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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