Iris is now: Cupertino!

02/16/11 9:13:34 AM (Edited 02/16/11 9:14:28 AM)
Posted by Joel Learner, CEO

What’s in a name?

We’ve recently been in contact with the kindly people who run the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt. They’re a well-known group in the education community, and they’ve published lots of great resources on assessments, Response to Intervention (RTI), and progress monitoring.

The name overlap was purely coincidental: theirs is an acronym, while ours was meant to imply focus and visualization. But since this left so much possibility for confusion, especially given the IRIS Center’s specialties, we’re voluntarily changing our product naming.

When I first discovered the IRIS Center, I contacted them via email. The director, Naomi Tyler, responded warmly and even offered to send wayward calls and emails to us if we kept the “Iris” name. Educators are always such friendly people! Well, we didn’t want to burden the IRIS Center with irrelevant requests. After all, they’ve been operating since 2001 and have made a name for themselves—who are we to step on it? We’re just getting started, so a name change is (relatively) easy for us.

Meanwhile, we’re still actively developing new enhancements to our software. We hope to make a name for ourselves as well, by creating flexible data tools that provide educators with easy access to the information they need.

Welcome to Cupertino !

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