PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, has announced its first channel partner in Africa. OneConnect, an innovative provider of turnkey technology services and solutions in South Africa and throughout the African continent, will help grow PowerSchool’s customer base in South Africa and the region, serving more than 500,000 students across the continent in the next year. This move is part of PowerSchool’s global expansion strategy, leveraging its regional channel partners to support localised marketing, sales, and customer deployment efforts.
Through the OneConnect partnership, educators in South Africa and across the continent can access mission-critical tools, including products from PowerSchool Unified Classroom, PowerSchool Unified Talent, PowerSchool Unified Insights, and PowerSchool Unified Operations, to support even more educators, students, and families and help them realise the promise of personalised education. This move will democratise education through improving digital access, professional development, and personalised learning across the continent.
“OneConnect understands the unique experience, opportunities, and challenges of education leaders in South Africa and throughout the Continent. Education technology, like the solutions offered from PowerSchool, is key to democratising education through improving digital access, professional development, and personalised learning across the continent,” said Rogers Sithole, Managing Director: OneConnect Education.
Currently, PowerSchool channel partners serve customers in India, the Philippines, and Uruguay, with plans to rapidly expand the program this year. The company has extensive and growing customer bases in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region, and exceptional partners like OneConnect will further support its efforts for global expansion.
PowerSchool’s mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realise their full potential, in their way. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in more than 90 countries.
The OneConnect partnership news follows the company’s recent announcement of plans to open its first Middle East & Africa (MEA) office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Spring 2023. This move is part of PowerSchool’s efforts to extend its footprint in the region, further supporting the company’s global expansion efforts.
