Microsoft Corp. and PowerSchool announced a new partnership that will bring together PowerSchool’s innovative K-12 technologies with Microsoft’s O365 for Education productivity suite, Windows devices, and cloud infrastructure to help ensure all students reach their full potential. Aligned around a shared vision that technology in education can help improve a child’s future opportunities, the companies have committed to leveraging their solutions to help educators, students and parents achieve their common goal of success in the classroom. By combining PowerSchool’s Unified Classroom and Student Information System with Microsoft’s productivity suite, Windows devices, and Azure infrastructure, the partnership will create classroom efficiencies, enable collaboration, and provide insights that allow teachers to spend more time teaching and less time focused on administrative tasks. Additionally, students will have the ability to engage with their teachers, other students, and classroom materials in ways that work best for them, and parents will be able to more easily understand and support their child’s progress. PowerSchool’s customers will also benefit from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s secure and intelligent cloud. The partnership involves PowerSchool delivering apps on Azure which enables a high degree of scale and security, while providing a platform to more rapidly deliver innovations. The partnership will allow Microsoft and PowerSchool to reshape K-12 education in five key areas: Creating a unique and enhanced Unified Classroom experience; providing cloud infrastructure; Enabling Personalized Learning; Providing Valuable Insights and creating a community of educators.